Transcript Using Blackboard Effectively - Northwestern Oklahoma State

Using Blackboard
Effectively
Lynna Ausburn
Assistant 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
VS.
Teaching WITH Blackboard
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
synchronously
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 Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu
WebQuest Portal
http://webquest.org
Working the Web for Education:
WebQuests 101
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct00/
march.htm
About WebQuests: Examples and
Tutorials
http://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 QUIA
http://www.quia.com
Quia game
Using Blackboard
Effectively
Who’s Got
QUESTIONS?