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Moving to Moodle
A series of talking heads discuss the move of the Bloomsbury Learning Environment to Moodle 2 from Blackboard 8. Videos provided on the ULCC Events Channel.
Blackboard 9.1 Tips – #1 Campus Pack
Learning Objects Campus Pack, used to provide for blogs, wikis and podcasts in Swansea University’s VLE, was updated at the same time as Blackboard. If you have one or more Learning Objects blog(s), wiki(s) or podcast(s) in your Blackboard (learning … Continue reading
Blackboard flag day
Today is the day when Blackboard 9.1 was rolled out at Swansea University as the new Learning Portal. I haven’t logged in to check my courses yet, but I’m sure they’ll be fine. Clive and his team promised to deliver … Continue reading
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Blackboard: "embrace, extend, innovate"
In an new post from the Swansea Learning Lab we are pointed to some videos from Blackboard which showcase new features in the planned 2009-2010 release of Blackboard. I watched the videos, and in a comment on the videos, I … Continue reading
Tagged assimilation, blackboard, borg, microsoft
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New Blackboard Tools
Some new features (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, podcasting) were added to my institution’s Blackboard in the last upgrade. It’s very early days but I managed to try some of these out and blog about my first impressions. Here’s my blog … Continue reading
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The Blackboard Quest
The Swansea Learning Lab had planned that tomorrow there would be a “lunch and learn” E-Learning Showcase at which I was going to present the “Blackboard Quest”. Unfortunately, due to lack of interest, this session has been postponed. However, as … Continue reading
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