Tag Archives: space

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 [...]

tech therapy on libraries, IT, and the future

I’m a big fan of the Chronicle’s Tech Therapy Podcast (RSS here). It’s short enough that it’s easy to make time for, comes out with a regularity that ensures that it is reasonable to keep up with, and the topics are always interesting for tech minded folks.
In the past bit, there have been a few [...]

A Day’s Work in the Library

So, today was the first day of work (since becoming a librarian) that one of my family members or non-library friends would have looked at what I’d been doing and recognized it as library work. Interestingly, it was also the first day of work (since becoming a librarian) that I really felt like I [...]

Notes: Duke’s New Teaching and Learning Spaces

Edward Gomes of A&SIST, Kevin Davis of OIT, and Yvonne Belanger of CIT
I attended this session since we have had so much discussion of library space in my own institution. This session discussed the Teaching and Learning Center in Perkins Library. Will be opening in the fall in the library. Success of recent renovation [...]