“As CIO and vice president for Information Technology at Duke University (NC), Tracy Futhey oversees technology projects that have far-reaching impact on instruction, research, and the way people live and work on campus. While recently she is most often cited for her work with Duke’s iPod project (http://www.duke.edu/ipod), dubbed the iPod First Year Initiative, Futhey’s professional interests have spanned a range of innovative technologies, especially networked and mobile technologies,” Mary Grush writes for Campus Technlogy.
How is the iPod project expanding into the Duke Digital Initiative? “Over the past year, the iPod project has made clear to many of our faculty and in many of our courses, the value of digital audio in a whole host of domains. And those who have started to use the iPods have said, in a large number of cases, that this has been an important enough experiment that they absolutely need and want to continue it. And we’ve had interest from other courses that haven’t yet tried it,” Futhey told Campus Technology. “At the same time, part of what our evaluations identified last year is that, as great as the iPod experiment was for digital audio access, we had people who wanted to do things that aren’t confined to digital audio: digital video, tablet computing, collaborative areas. So we are continuing and expanding the project, adding the focus in those new areas. We are also shifting the project from class-based to coursebased, so that any student in any year of his or her undergraduate program here at Duke, who is in a course using the iPods, would receive an iPod for that relevant coursework.”
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Interesting – hopefully Apple will get some of the action if notebooks are going to be used in the expanded project
I dont have an IPOD because I cant afford an IPOD but maybe I cant afford not to have an IPOD–all I know is that I entered a contest a few years ago saying that if I had an IPOD I would use it to learn languages–you could put an entire semester of Japanese digital audio on there–not to mention podcasts of radio from Japan–now maybe video too–maybe newscasts originating in Japan–China –France–Italy–maybe lectures–BY THE WAY–BUT NOT BY THE WAY–( I dont mean to scare you )–BUT BY THE
WAY–THE WOMAN IN THE 1984 AD WITH THE SLEDGEHAMMER???????
SHE IS WEARING AN IPOD———its the wave of the future.
Are you a typical Duke student? Can you try even a little bit to be coherent in your posts? Unless you’re speaking in some type of strange code…or maybe you’re a comedienne…but I doubt it.
If you like the iPod, you’ve got some sense.
Best of luck getting an education, though the signs are not good.
Kate
lisa has been ranting on several articles about the “end of days” for apple.
now she’s bitching about being poor.
lisa, are you 12 years old?
you need to chill.
They need to give all the students iBooks.
I just amazed at these MacMorons–hey dont complain when something is written in plain English and you cant understand—that probably means its YOU that needs an education and not the writer.