Comments on: Undoing Blackboard 8: Four-Step Recovery Program http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150 a weblog experiment by Lisa M. Lane, dedicated to the principle of Pedagogy First! Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:56:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Linda http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-16477 Linda Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:59:46 +0000 http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-16477 I've been circumventing Blackboard for seven years. OK, I do use it - more as a portal page for my online students, but I do the same think you do, Lisa, and create my own lecture webpages, with all the material students need for the course on my webpages. Trying to create a decent webpage on Blackboard is a nightmare, so creating my own pages and housing them somewhere other than with Blackboard has been helpful. And it allows me to be more creative, too. Happy New Year! Good luck this semester. Linda I’ve been circumventing Blackboard for seven years. OK, I do use it – more as a portal page for my online students, but I do the same think you do, Lisa, and create my own lecture webpages, with all the material students need for the course on my webpages. Trying to create a decent webpage on Blackboard is a nightmare, so creating my own pages and housing them somewhere other than with Blackboard has been helpful. And it allows me to be more creative, too.

Happy New Year!
Good luck this semester.

Linda

]]> By: Julia http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-16283 Julia Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:11:10 +0000 http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-16283 Hello Our patrnership of HEIs in the UK have committed to Blackboard for the next two years at least, because we have received funding for an eLearning Project and some of this funding has covered licence fees, technical training and so on. Nevertheless, we are trying to encourage use of a variety of other Web 2.0 tools and applications in conjunction WITH Blackboard and not in spite of it(!) as we attempt to 'embed technogy into our learning and teaching strategies' - the ultimate goal of the Project. Hello
Our patrnership of HEIs in the UK have committed to Blackboard for the next two years at least, because we have received funding for an eLearning Project and some of this funding has covered licence fees, technical training and so on. Nevertheless, we are trying to encourage use of a variety of other Web 2.0 tools and applications in conjunction WITH Blackboard and not in spite of it(!) as we attempt to ‘embed technogy into our learning and teaching strategies’ – the ultimate goal of the Project.

]]> By: Mike Bogle http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-16014 Mike Bogle Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:42:02 +0000 http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-16014 Just brilliant - I like the title in particular :) I'd be interested in finding out how many other insitutions that mandate BB usage are experiencing the same sorts of creative tactics. We had a BB rep come by to present the app to us a few weeks ago and actually talked about how "open" BB is. I could hardly contain myself. I wanted to ask him if the openness works both ways, or if you can only suck in data, but not use it outside the environment, and/or what support was available for exporting of work/course contributions to encourage life-long learning once students graduate or otherwise leave the institution - but I didn't want to draw attention to myself LOL. Hope all is well! Cheers, Mike Just brilliant – I like the title in particular :) I’d be interested in finding out how many other insitutions that mandate BB usage are experiencing the same sorts of creative tactics.

We had a BB rep come by to present the app to us a few weeks ago and actually talked about how “open” BB is. I could hardly contain myself.

I wanted to ask him if the openness works both ways, or if you can only suck in data, but not use it outside the environment, and/or what support was available for exporting of work/course contributions to encourage life-long learning once students graduate or otherwise leave the institution – but I didn’t want to draw attention to myself LOL.

Hope all is well!

Cheers,

Mike

]]> By: Lisa http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-15752 Lisa Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:01:44 +0000 http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-15752 Hi B-ob! At the moment, we're lucky to have Moodle and ETUDES-NG also paid by the district as alternatives. When those go, perhaps folks will want to use more web apps. And certainly there are plenty of folks using BB and happy enough with it (read: invested in it, with their quizzes and materials stuck in the system) that the resources are being used. ;-) Hi B-ob! At the moment, we’re lucky to have Moodle and ETUDES-NG also paid by the district as alternatives. When those go, perhaps folks will want to use more web apps. And certainly there are plenty of folks using BB and happy enough with it (read: invested in it, with their quizzes and materials stuck in the system) that the resources are being used. ;-)

]]> By: Bob Bell (B-ob http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150&cpage=1#comment-15733 Bob Bell (B-ob Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:42:47 +0000 http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/?p=150#comment-15733 Lisa, Considering the cost per year of Blackhoard, the solution makes for an expensive reference page to an open source application. It must be crazy making for you to consider the waste of resources $&time down the BB hole! B-ob Lisa,
Considering the cost per year of Blackhoard, the solution makes for an expensive reference page to an open source application. It must be crazy making for you to consider the waste of resources $&time down the BB hole!
B-ob

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