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Loads of Blackboard tips

4 Sep 2008 at 7:25am
While we have our own wiki with plenty of step-by-step instructions, we may not be covering everything you want to know.  Here is a list of 100 Blackboard tips, some for students, but most for instructors.  They’ve been collected from colleges around the country and cover everything from how to set things up in Blackboard [...] Read More

So you made it through the first day

2 Sep 2008 at 7:40pm
It’s over now, the first day.  I’m sure there were things that went great and things that did not go so great.  Here in the ETC, we’re sorting out how to work our newly refreshed computers in the New Media Lab, helping people with Blackboard, fixing things with video, and trying to put the last [...] Read More

Notes for Tri-Co Symposium Social Software Panel

17 Jul 2008 at 2:07pm
Why use social software? For me as a writing instructor: Blogging offers opportunities to engage an audience Through that engagement, students can hone their arguments While focused on ideas, surface-level issues such as grammar and spelling become part of public presentation Creates a scholarly/learning community in miniature–following Kenneth Bruffee and his ideas of discourse communities Link to blog site (http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/woi.brynmawr.edu/) Apathy’s blog [...] Read More

Video of Information Management Workshop

26 Mar 2008 at 12:47pm
We successfully recorded the Information Management Workshop.  It ended up in two parts.  Part 1 Part 2  We covered using Google Reader and RSS Feeds generally, EndNote Web, del.icio.us, and Zotero. Read More

Archiving courses in Blackboard

4 Mar 2008 at 10:33am
This is primarily for all the local faculty.  Here are the instructions for archiving your courses in Blackboard. I. EXPORT PACKAGES A Blackboard course or organization can be exported into a .zip file which can be downloaded to the instructor’s computer. The export file can be used as a vehicle to transfer content to another course, and [...] Read More

iPhone U

3 Mar 2008 at 9:15am
I’m watching the video from Abilene Christian University about how their new iPhone initiative might be used academically.  I’m thinking about the infrastructure necessary for implementing such a program.  I like the way surveys can be sent in class, but what apps are they using? What’s the back end? Read More

Using Blogs in Teaching

25 Feb 2008 at 4:13pm
Here is the presentation from our session on using blogs. It’s also available as a video from iTunes U. Read More