Raquel Salvatella de Prada

Open House specifically for high school juniors and seniors who are specifically interested in Duke’s arts and humanities programs to give them a better sense of what it’s like to be an undergraduate student pursuing their interests at Duke and encourage them to apply to Duke and ultimately, positively influence their decision to attend Duke if they are admitted later on in the application cycle. Invitations were sent to students from all over the country who expressed interest in arts & humanities fields of study. They were allowed to bring parents and other family members to the event.

Colleges and universities are considering adding video making, or visual literacy, as a core skill. Preparing students for a highly visual communication landscape that requires critical thinking to offset consumerism requires multimodal learning and cognitive skills. Researching, creating, and sharing video playlists is an important way to create personalized learning pathways and promote continuous learning. Join us to see a number of case studies that demonstrate the positive learning outcomes of multimodal learning in academic and corporate settings and discover how to create playlists that can be annotated, edited, and shared across teams.

Short presentations of digital projects that focus on the tools being used and various research themes. These highlights are the point of departure for further discussion and making connections between digital scholars at Duke.

We discussed recent technological developments that have altered the scope of the performing arts and changed the way it's made and who makes it.

Torry Bend (Theater Studies) and I shared clips from our puppet show The Paper Hat Game. The blend of live action puppetry with video was hard to managed but were able to make it work. The success created another challenge later on, when documenting the show using video — the mix of live and recorded elements that was so rich and exciting in Sheafer Theater tended to look too flat on the screen. A suggestion from Randy Riddle (Office of Information Technology) of using 3D cameras could solve this problem.