The uKnowKids now has an iPhone app

The uKnowKids iPhone app is now avaible to download!





uKnowKids will let you monitor many of the channels your child uses to communicate on his or her iPhone including contact and photo review, as well as location monitoring. Many of the iPhone's native features are integrated with Facebook®. uKnowKids collects and analyzes all Facebook data as well as:

Twitter
Instagram
Facebook Messenger

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3Play Media For Captioning & Video Accessibility

Below are some resources that might be helpful in regards to captioning and video accessibility, provided by 3Play Media. 3PlayMedia was one of the vendor present at BbWorld 2013, perhaps you visited them in booth #






Captioning for Blackboard Collaborate
Read step-by-step instructions








Video Accessibility Laws
Get the latest updates








Case Studies
Read about successful

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New Self-Paced Online Courses for Blackboard Learn

Blackboard (Bb) adds four New Self-Paced Online Courses for LEARN!

If your switching from snapshot or just wanting to take advantage of the SIS Integration features, or wanting to learn how to improve institution wide collaboration, to learn tips on course delivery, or are you a trainer/support person who needs to understand Bb from the faculty side? The below courses may help you. 

 

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LMS Roadmaps & Why No One Vendor Is Perfect

I work for a two Blackboard (Bb) institutions, yet one has challenge me to teach with Canvas to try it out. Canvas presented at the last New Horizons conference sponsored by the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) which is a Bb client, so I have experience and exposure to both products. My experience with D2L is less and only within a sandbox environment. Read my This is not my only prior

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You Can Survive A Business Trip With Gastroparesis

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Blackboard (Bb) annual conferences in Las Vegas, Nevada. Learn more about what happened at these conferences in any of my prior eight post. Today I want to talk about how I as scared about going to this conference as I was excited to go and present.





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While being treated at the University of Virginia (UVA) for another issue, one

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Things I Discovered By Going to Bb 2013 Conferences

I returned from my fourth BbWorld conference and my third DevCon conference almost a week ago…and what a 1/2 week it has been. I got new neighbors whose kids seem to live in our yard, I submitted 4 Bb support tickets, I returned to a work where I am told a trained monkey can do my job, I wrote a book review for the ACM, several vendor demos, my son learned to dive off the swim team blocks and

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My Blackboard Annual Conference Reflection

Blackboard (Bb) users started descending upon the desert area of Las Vegas, Nevada as early as Saturday, July 6. To attended either the Open Source Day conference, the Bb Developers Conference (DevCon), or the BbWorld User Conference or a combination of these conferences. I attended the DevCon and BbWorld conferences. I always forget to go down a day earlier for the Open Source Day conference,

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My Closing Day of BbWorld 2013

I woke up with sadness in my heart due to the BbWorld conference coming to an end today. The event goes by so fast. Why, because it is the one time a year Bb users from around the world get to talk to each other in person and learn from each other with the common goal of using educational technology to better the world.

Today was the first day I actually made it to breakfast and I even had time

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Blackboard World Day 2 In Review

I apologize for not writing my review of Day 2 (Wednesday) at BbWorld quicker. Wednesday was the first full day of BbWorld 2013 and it was packed full. I was exhausted by the end of the day! Of course, the evening 10 mile hike around the strip that the SU team took after the did not help things either.

Blackboard (Bb) nominated 23 people for the Key to the Community and then opened the doors for

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Blackboard World 2013 Kicks Off

Only a short time after the techno geeks attending Blackboard's (Bb) Developers Conference finished lunch, Bb kicked of their annual users conference known as BbWorld. Conference attendees had to chose from sessions on analytics, mobile, transitioning, streaming video, course design, online program management trends, server consolidation, cloud discussions, cross-platform strategies, strategic

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Blackboard Developers Conference Day 2 In Review

 My day started off with an early web meeting with Blackboard (Bb) Support Tier 2 Engieer Charles Cloutier, with Tier 3 on standby. Sadly the hotel wi-fi just was supportive of this activity. We opted for Charles doing direct backend data extraction and quickly learned that Tier 3 needed to handle. I really appreciate Charles working around my DevCon session schedule, so I can get a problem

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Bb's DevCon 2013 Day 1 In Review

I missed the opening session and part of Franco's Social Security session due to oversleeping and working with Southwest on finding my luggage. Then I was unable to activate Google Glass via voice controls due to the level of conversation going on, Glass could not here my "record a video" command. I was amazed as to the level of intensity in the room by some who want an "ok" from every user

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Bb DevCon Or Bust .... Almost a Bust

This year I decide to leave later on Sunday to get as much family time in as possible before heading to Blackbaord's (Bb) Developers Conference (DevCon). Little did I know those extra hours would possibly cost me dearly and almost cause me to miss the DevCon conference. I should have seen the signs late packing, rushing to finish meal preps for family, a flipped school bus causing traffic delays,

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My Google Glass Adventures Continues

As society is learning more about wearable technology through Google Glass, I am learning more about Google Glass through society. I think society is starting to under stand how Glass works, but if your still a little confused click here to learn more. While there are people who still have privacy concerns, even though Glass does not invade privacy any more than recording on a cell phone or

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3Play Media, Job News, Free iPads and More

Exhibit Hall Booth #511: 
3Play Media works with Higher Education institutions to
provide captioning & transcription services. Stop by Booth #511 in the BbWorld Exhibit Hall and talk with them about the challenges you face in making your videos accessible and learn how 3Play Media may potentially help. 3Play Media recommends the following sessions:

Be Proactive: Creating An Accessible Online

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Today's July 1 News & Information

Today is the day that: 


Canada celebrates it independence
Estée Lauder was born in 1906 (Cosmetics Company CEO)
Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver, Colorado
Many new laws go into affect in the United States
You must vote by 11:59p for the Key To Community award
BbWorld 2013 is now only 8 days away

 #5: Key to the Community Award –
a new award  to recognize clients

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