CIT Showcase: Update on the Duke Digital Initiative

Lynne O’Brien, CIT
Samantha Earp, Academic Services, OIT

Presentation of the 2008-09 Duke Digital Initiative programs and their outcomes, and an overview of programs being supported through DDI in 2009-2010.

  • Started with iPod: putting something out there and see what people could do
  • Evolution of CIT to consulting with faculty on incorporating new technologies into their teaching
  • Program of innovation: explore what might be useful, take the best ones, figure out how to infuse them across campus
  • 2008-2009 about finding ways to document the experience of students
  • Tools: flip cameras, mini DV, cameras, hi def video, iPod Touch, webcams, screen capture software, VoiceThread, etc.
  • The Link space: experimental classroom space, many disciplines this year, largest percentage in science

New this year: flip cameras

  • Huge and immediate uptake
  • 3 week project to document sustainability across campus, bring together into a movie presentation
  • Tools are not the purpose of the seminar, but allow you to accomplish more in the classroom

New this year: webcams

  • Less uptake than flip cameras, but still used widely
  • Skype, etc, use in languages, education, public policy, economics, and rotaract club

New this year: VoiceThread

  • Audio annotation of video and images
  • They showed an example for a language class. I bet most language teachers would love it.

DDI 2009-2010

  • Continued innovation with multimedia capture, publishing and collaboration tools
  • Explore promising tools to support more seamless integration of media into learning environments
  • Also looking at what people can do with the media people create (I love this. This is one of the reasons that I think that instructional technology work makes sense in the library.)
  • Considering how we can take the tools that people already have and figure out how they can be used in classes.
  • DDI website also a social network (Ning). Anyone can contribute an idea.
  • Discontinuing grant program in the next year, but will be continuing the loaner program.
  • Multimedia projects labs on campus (2 for students, 1 for faculty) for in-depth work on multimedia projects

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  1. From lauren’s library blog » Blog Archive » Instructional Technology Take Aways (CIT Showcase) on 25 Apr 2009 at 5:43 pm

    [...] I spent yesterday at the Duke CIT Showcase. I attended a bunch of interesting sessions on the Duke Digital Initiatives, video feedback on assignments, alumni readers/critiques, a student’s perspectives of blogs [...]

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