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Instructional Technology Take Aways (CIT Showcase)

As you might have noticed, 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 in the classroom, iTunes University, and the physical arrangement of classroom space. James Groom, of the EduPunk movement gave [...]

CIT Showcase: Teaching in a Flexible Classroom

Hugh Crumley, CIT and the Duke Graduate School

Showed images, asked for comments
Active group work, evaluating spaces
Buzz Phrase: Active and student centered: make thinking visible (allows fast formative assessment along the way), facilitate interaction
Showed rows, tables, circle with break out spaces
The walls of the room we are in area all whiteboard. They used a wallpaper product [...]

CIT Showcase: Audio Documentaries on iTunesU

John Biewen, Duke University, Documentary Studies

Another way to get student work out into the world.
Accessible through the iTunes store.
He played several samples of student documentaries. The quality was such that you might have thought they were professional podcasts.
Not a mass audience, but does have some reach. Someone heard a recording and decided to make a [...]

CIT Showcase: Teaching with Blogs: Advice From a Student

Jennifer Kim, Undergraduate Duke Student

Has taken 4 classes with blogs, all in english
3 successful, 1 not

Why blogs don’t work

Blogs fall into a black hold
Blogs are not relevant to class and have no structure
There are unrealistic expectations

How blogs can work

Get people involved, RESPOND!
There is proper incentive
Provide an easy mechanism

Showed effective uses of blogs:

Weekly blog post with [...]

CIT Showcase: Fragmented Identities: A Domain of One’s Own

James Groom, University of Mary Washington (Keynote)

2 screens: one showing the Twitter feed, and the other with his PowerPoint
Not in the field of research, in the field of recon: throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what works.
UMW Blogs: An educational publishing platform
Came about because of Wordpress MU (WFU uses this) Free software, the cost [...]