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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cary Moskovitz, Thompson Writing Program
I had to settle a few things out of the room, so I missed the first few minutes. This program matches alumni readers to student papers to provide outsider feedback.
Types of writing: environment and conflict, news writing and reporting, philosophy of intimacy, science versus the mosquito, etc.
Need readers based on the [...]
