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Using Blackboard Effectively
Using Blackboard Effectively
Lynna AusburnAssistant Professor,
Occupational Education Studies
Oklahoma State University
Everyone Knows What Blackboard Can Do…
…And How to Use Its Features and Functions
Let’s Think about Some Ways to Make it Work…
BETTER!
Teaching ON Blackboard
Teaching ON Blackboard
Teaching WITH Blackboard
Teaching WITH Blackboard
VS.
Use Your Skills and Personality
Put Some New Colors in the Blackboard Paintbox
Use your Blackboard
course “LIVE” and “on the fly” during class
meetings
Put a Q & A Forum
on the Discussion
Board
Put an “Open Forum” or “Your Stuff” on the
Discussion Board for student use
Use the Discussion
Board synchronousl
y for LIVE online
discussions
Have live conversations
with small groups of
students in the Virtual Classroom
Encourage students to
use the Virtual Classroom for conversations
among themselves
Have students put assignments on their Personal Page to be read by classmates • Follow up with
discussions• Have everyone email
the authors of their favorite postings
Have students put assignments on the Discussion
Board • Have asynchronous
discussions of the postings
• Have “live” synchronous discussions
Create a class “BLOG”
• Use a web tool and link the BLOG to Blackboard
• BLOG on Blackboard
www.blogger.com
Conduct a class research project via the
Blackboard site
Conduct a class Delphi
project via the Blackboard
site
Conduct a WebQuest on
your Blackboard site
• Link WebQuest to Blackboard
• WebQuest on Blackboard by combining several features
Anatomy of a WebQuest
Example of a WebQuest
Example of a WebQuest
Example of a WebQuest
Where to Learn about WebQuests
WebQuest Pagehttp://webquest.sdsu.edu
WebQuest Portalhttp://webquest.org
Working the Web for Education: WebQuests 101http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct00/march.htm
About WebQuests: Examples and Tutorialshttp://www.minot.k12.nd.us/quests.html
Link Activities Created with a
variety of tools to your Blackboard
Online lesson created with TrackStar
http://www.4teachers.org
ROI TrackStar
Link Activities Created with a
variety of tools to your Blackboard
Online “Matching” Game created with QUIAhttp://www.quia.com
Quia game
Using Blackboard Effectively
Using Blackboard Effectively
Who’s Got QUESTIONS?
