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?