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Monday, 26 August 2013

Blackboard ... Coming To A City Near You

Posted on 08:19 by Unknown


Graphic From Bb, Inc.

Blackboard's (Bbs) Never Stop Learning Tour is hitting the road again and they will be making stops all across North America featuring sessions led by Blackboard clients in the various regions. The tour provides users with the opportunity to network with peers, join or meet other members of regional Blackboard User Group (BUGs), and ask questions or share feedback with
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Will Reliable Applications Disappear In The Future?

Posted on 12:01 by Unknown
As I was reading the August Communications magazine from the Associations form Computing Machinery (ACM), I came upon the article written by Philip Guo in which he provides new programmers/developers some times for starting a new project and a different view of programming that he believes is not shared with students by the education system today. The title of article "Teaching Programming the
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Monday, 12 August 2013

Blackboard Calendar Basics - Seen Through New Eyes

Posted on 06:18 by Unknown
I just had to re-post this nicely done blog post from Shenandoah University's (SU) Technology Support Liaison, Tristan Plummer. He is not only new to SU but new to Blackboard (Bb) and quickly saw the advantage and simplicity of Bb's calendar tool for students. However, I think Bb user role could learn something from this post. 



Seriously, I can barely tell the difference, but then again, I'm
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Thursday, 8 August 2013

Less Clicks Blackboard, Not More!

Posted on 02:08 by Unknown


Oh, I am dreaming of a version of Blackboard (Bb) Learn where the developers have thought logically from the users point of view and remembered to employ the old development method known as KISS (keep it simple, stupid).  I truly mean no disrespect to Bb and this is nothing they haven't heard me say several times, but users want less clicks not more.

Why oh why, when I click on the Course
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Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Blackboard Learn Has Gone Social

Posted on 10:04 by Unknown


I am sure many of you have heard about Blackboard (Bb) Learn's Social Learning Tools, if not hopefully this post will enlighten you a little. Today, networking is key to career advancement and professional development and with the "always connected" attitude social media has become more popular than ever. Yet students and faculty did not want to expose their personal lives to each other, so Bb
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Thursday, 1 August 2013

Bb Conference Resources...See What You Missed

Posted on 16:55 by Unknown

This year at Blackboard's (Bbs) annual conferences in Las Vegas, NV there was almost 3,000 people networking together. Over the course of a week which also included DevCon,
participants from more than 30 countries shared ideas and engaged in a
rich program focused on the future of education and teaching and
learning with technology.  Ok, so some were there just to meet Bbs new CEO Jay Bhatt,
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