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Google Apps + Blackboard
The Northwestern U. Open Source "Bboogle Project"
James Altman, Manager, Faculty Support ServicesBrian Nielsen, Project Manager, Faculty Initiatives
The Nuremberg Funnel
Blackboard at Northwestern
A customer since 1999 Broad adoption among both faculty and students Over 2,100 courses using Bb per quarter But Bb alone is often no more than a mechanism to deliver documents -- built initially to solve the instructor's problem of delivering packaged information to students and aggregate student-created content for the instructor
Technology to support a new model
Collaborative construction of new knowledge rather thanrelying on an instructor to drum information into students
Adopting a Collaboration Platform
Google Apps for Education deployed at Northwestern in 2007
Objective #1: Fill a gap in providing email to students
Objective #2: Find out whether the other Apps offer new options for student collaboration
But What About Teaching & Learning?
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What does Bboogle do?
1.Provides access to Google Apps content to students and faculty through the Blackboard interface
What does Bboogle do?
content for the instructor
2. Manages access permissions for Google Apps
Permissions: The Secret Sauce
Students in the class are given read or read/write permissions on a Doc / Calendar / Site automatically
Enables actions like:• Collaborative development of a wiki
(Site)• Shared assembly of data (Doc
spreadsheet)• Coordination of a class and individual
Calendars• Immediate sharing of students' writing
An Example: The Encyclopedia of Latin American History
A. Rivers form example
How Do I Get Bboogle at My Institution?
http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/bboogle/
LISTSERV: email to [email protected] "subscribe bboogle Yourfirstname Yourlastname" Community meetings twice a month
Q & A