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Designing Your Blackboard Site to Enhance Learning
Blackboard has a variety of tools for managing a range of course activities - like providing access to course documents, facilitating communication, and posting grades. Integrating freely available web-based tools and digital resources opens up opportunities for enhancing student collaboration and extending conversations beyond the four walls of the classroom. This session will show you easy and effective instructional strategies to immediately enhance your Blackboard course site to better support student learning.
Outcomes
By the end of this session you should be able to:
- Apply what we know about learning and motivation to your course activities
- Use information design to organize your course
- Discuss learning advantages associated with student-generated content and peer assessment
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with the instructional use of journals, wikis, and blogs
- List and select web-based tools to enhance student collaboration and peer learning in your courses.
- Create a portal to web based tools through Blackboard
- Embed web media in your Blackboard course to use as learning content.
Session Overview
Resources
E-Portfolios in Higher Education
- From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments, posted January 7th, 2009 by Michael Wesch , Kansas State University,
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable-knowledge-able
- Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education, Steve Hargadon, 12/16/2009, http://www.stevehargadon.com/2009/12/social-networking-in-education.html
- Seven Things You Should Know About YouTube,
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutYouTu/156821
- Seven Things You Should Know About Wikis,
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutWikis/156807
- The Power of Wikis in Higher Education, Linda Briggs, 08/20/2008, Campus Technology,
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/08/the-power-of-wikis-in-higher-ed.aspx
- VCU eLearning Tools Landscape
http://www.vcu.edu/cte/resources/OnlineTools/index.html
For more information, contact Joyce Kincannon (828-1605 or jmkincannon@vcu.edu).
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