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Enhance Your Blackboard Sites With Dynamic Course-Related Web News, Audio, And Video Content, Reid Kimball
Enhance Your Blackboard Sites With Dynamic Course-Related Web News, Audio, And Video Content, Reid Kimball
EdTech Day
Rather than send students scouring across the web for important news and audio/video content, bring the Web to you! Learn how RSS News Feeds in your Blackboard sites can provide your students with instant access to the latest news from the NY Times, scholarly journals, the Boston Globe Business section, and any other course-related news site without you having to lift a finger.
Also, in this hands-on workshop, discover how to easily embed live audio and video from sources like YouTube and TEDTalks right into your Blackboard course sites so that they never have to leave the cozy confines of …
Blackboard Course Design – Don’T Be Boxed In By Blackboard, Eric Lepage
Blackboard Course Design – Don’T Be Boxed In By Blackboard, Eric Lepage
EdTech Day
Announcements, Syllabus, Faculty, Course Documents, Assignments, Communication, External Links, Tools – do I really need all this stuff? In this hands-on workshop, learn how to remove features you don’t need, add quicklinks to features you use regularly (like Discussion Board and Student Grades), and completely transform your Blackboard site into something that doesn’t look, well, so much like Blackboard anymore. Your students will greatly appreciate the efficiency, intuitiveness, and creativity of your newly designed Blackboard sites.
Getting Started With Moodle, Reid Kimball
Getting Started With Moodle, Reid Kimball
EdTech Day
Moodle is an alternative course management option for faculty who are looking for a tool that better supports engaged student learning. Moodle is a “free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities” (Moodle.org). In this hands-on workshop, learn how to post handouts (syllabi, PowerPoint slideshows, etc.) and multimedia content, hold asynchronous and synchronous discussions via the Discussion Forums and Virtual Chat tools, post student grades via the Online Gradebook, organize group space for collaborative projects with the Moodle wiki, receive assignments from students via digital submission, and more.
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