The Rotary Club of Frederick County, Virginia hosted the Harlem Ambassadors in a friendly game of basketball against some of the areas leaders (aka: Diplomats) on Friday, March 22 at Sherando High School in Stephens City, Virginia. This basketball game was to help raise money to build a Habitat For Humanity house. In case you don't know about the Harlem Ambassadors, you can check out their
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Community Support, Spring Snow, Atomic Learning, & BbWorld13
Posted on 11:40 by Unknown
The Rotary Club of Frederick County, Virginia hosted the Harlem Ambassadors in a friendly game of basketball against some of the areas leaders (aka: Diplomats) on Friday, March 22 at Sherando High School in Stephens City, Virginia. This basketball game was to help raise money to build a Habitat For Humanity house. In case you don't know about the Harlem Ambassadors, you can check out their
Do You Trello?
Posted on 07:56 by Unknown
Do you Trello? Have you heard of Trello?
I do now Trello and I had not heard of Trello until John Dennett of Blackboard, Inc (Bb) emailed the folks on the Bb Mobile list serv (3/25) about this nice tool. Trello lets you organize anything easily, from life goals and to-do lists to group projects; Add images, checklists, due dates, attachments, and more to your Trello board; team areas all for
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Social Media Does Matter
Posted on 05:59 by Unknown
Social Media is probably more important than most of us realize or want to admit. For example did you know that "Nearly a quarter of the total time spent online is on social networks" (Tom Ewer ,2012). Social Media is no longer an option, if you want to advance your career or make your personal brand recognized. Ewer (2012) further points out that "Social media users spend the most, and are more
Monday, 18 March 2013
A System Admin/Faculty Point Of View on Blackboard Learn's Inline Grading
Posted on 06:12 by Unknown
Last week Blackboard (Bb), Inc. released a new tool called "Inline Grading" for their LEARN platform. This feature is suppose to be part of Learn 9.1 SP12, but if your institution is running SP10 or SP11 you do not have to wait. Just ask your System Administrator to download and install the building block. The install takes less than 2 minutes and the rewards will be great for faculty, as well as
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Cool Tools You Can Integrate With Blackboard Learn 9.1
Posted on 08:05 by Unknown
Even if you believe that Blackboard (Bb) Learn 9.1 is the best learning management system (LMS) out there based on quality, ease of use, flexibility, and level education technology experience; you will also have to admit that there are some cool Web tools available also. The best part is that more of the Web tool developers are realizing that people do not want to be restricted to just their web
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Open Education Week, OER, & School of Open
Posted on 06:17 by Unknown
http://www.openeducationweek.org/
Open Education Resources (OER) "are freely accessible, openly formatted and openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, education, assessment and research purposes." (Wikipedia, 2013). OER is not a new concept, as seen in Sally Johnstone's Educause article in 2005. OER has moved into the more educational discussions due to the
Monday, 11 March 2013
Wiggo, D2L, Social Learing, and Bb
Posted on 05:18 by Unknown
Let me start by first explaining what Wiggo.com is. Wiggo.com is a site where someone can create a group and communicate online with members of that group. Currently you can either create an Wiggo account or login with your Facebook account. According to the Wiggo "About" page the founders created the application out of their frustration in trying to work in groups, something I am sure we all
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Content Collection Within Blackboard Learn
Posted on 06:49 by Unknown
Blackboard, Inc. (aka: Bb) offers an add-on the their LEARN platform known as the Content System. The Blackboard Content System gives instructors a place to store, share, and publish their course content within personal user folders and course folders. The content system serves as a virtual hard drive for their Blackboard files. Files stored within the content system can be linked to multiple
Stange March Scramble
Posted on 06:46 by Unknown
Blackboard Incorporate's North America tour - Blackboard (Bb) is traveling across North America looking to meet educators, technologists and leaders that desire to make the educational experience the best it can be in North America. You can learn more about their tour by clicking here or join the tour via Twitter by following the hashtag #BbonTour.
Free Interactive PDF Syllabus Builder that
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Add Variety To Your Course Discussion Boards
Posted on 09:30 by Unknown
Do you use discussion boards in your class? Are your students disengaged with your discussion boards? If you answered "yes" to either of these questions then maybe it is time to try a different way of using a discussion board.
“Think of it as a place to foster interaction between the students through a variety of means rather than just asking them questions, although that’s great too,” says
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Personal Learning Network, do you have one?
Posted on 05:56 by Unknown
A personal learning network (PLN) is a group of people that you are connected to that help you learn and grow your knowledge in a variety of topics. I have also heard PLNs called social learning networks (SLNs). PLNs are not the same thing as social networks as some think and why I think people tend to stay away from calling them SLNs. These personal learning networks are not only self-directed
Monday, 4 March 2013
What Technology Do Student Really Want?
Posted on 10:33 by Unknown
I've had the opportunity to attended some more "geeky" informational technology (IT) conferences lately, getting back to my programming roots. I also have been able to attend more educational conferences, since getting my PhD. Since I live daily in both of these worlds, I understand both areas but am totally amazed how far apart these worlds are in respect to what today's learners really want
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