About DDI

This site is dedicated to the faculty, staff and students of Duke who lend their valuable time and feedback to making the Duke Digital Initiative successful.


The Duke Digital Initiative (DDI) is a multi-year program of experimentation, development and implementation of new and emerging technologies to explore their effective use in support of the university's mission.

The goals of DDI are to promote innovative and effective teaching, to use technology in support of curriculum enhancement, to develop our technology infrastructure and to share knowledge about effective instructional technology strategies.

CIT staff have provided project management, consulting, training and technical assistance to faculty participating in DDI programs.

•   Fall 2008 Duke Digital Initiative Programs, March 2009
•   Tablet PC Program Update, January 2008
•   Report on 2006-2007 Duke Digital Initiative Instructional Programs, July 2007
•   Report on Fall 2006 Duke Digital Initiative Instructional Programs, March 2007
•   Report on 2005-2006 Duke Digital Initiative, July 2006
•   Evaluation of 2004-05 Academic iPod Projects, June 2005
•   University Writing Program iPod Project Report (Executive Summary), June 2005
•   Report to ITAC on iPod project, March 2005
  
  

Amy Campbell - Assistant Director and Head, Faculty Services
Samantha Earp - Director, Academic Services, Office of Information Technology
Ed Gomes - Associate Dean, Information Science & Technology, College of Arts & Sciences
Julian Lombardi - Assistant Vice President, Office of Information Technology
Lynne O'Brien - Director, Academic Technology & Instructional Services, Center for Instructional Technology
Steve O'Donnell - Senior Communications Strategist, Office of Information Technology
Stephen Toback - Senior Manager, Interactive Technology Services, Office of Information Technology


Special thanks to the faculty and staff who provided their time and efforts to help shape and develop this year's programs and program materials.

Alicia Lange	Amy Campbell	Amy Hendrix	Andrea Novicki
Ben Rogers	Danette Pachtner	Emily Daly	Haiyan Zhou
Kevin Campbell	Kirk Griffin	Laura Atkinson	Lenore Ramm
Marc Sperber	Mark McGill	Michael Faber	Oscar Arias
Paolo Mangiafico	Patrick Daniels	Randy Riddle	Scott Wells
Sean Aery	Shawn Miller	Teddy Gray	Tom Crichlow
Tom Freeland	Vernon Thornton	Wayne Miller

As part of DDI's current programs of exploring new ways to use digital media, we are incorporating our own website into the experimentNing is a company that offers a media rich template to build websites to exchange audio, video and photos as well as ideas through groups, forums and blogs. It can be used straight out of the box, or it can be highly customized through CSS and source code editing. It is only available through hosting on their servers. The service is free and ad supported or you can (as we did) pay a minimal monthly fee to eliminate the ads and use your own URL. For more information, contact Stephen Toback in OIT's Digital Media Solutions group.

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