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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Blackboard is the world's most popular commercial learning management system. With Blackboard you can construct and deliver professional quality elearning courses with ease. Its many features, which allow you to manage courses, grading and assessments, and social collaboration, are the standard against which other learning management systems are measured. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers shows you how to use Blackboard's most essential features by guiding you through the development of a demonstration course, built on Blackboard's free site for teachers, coursesites.com. You will also learn more about Blackboard's most important features, such as the gradebook, using clear instructions to guide you every step of the way. By following an example course, this book will guide you, step-by-step, through creating your own Blackboard course. Start by adding static material for students to view, such as pages, links, and media. Then, add interaction to your courses, with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. Most importantly, engage your students in your course by communicating with them, assessing them, and putting them into groups. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers will enable you to take your elearning course from inception, to construction, to delivery.
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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers
Blackboard Essentials for Teachers
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About the Author
William Rice is an e-learning professional who lives, works, and plays in New York city. He has authored books on Moodle, Blackboard, Magento, and classroom training.
He especially enjoys building e-learning solutions for small- and mid-sized businesses. His greatest professional satisfaction is when one of his courses enables students to do something that makes their work easier and more productive.
His indoor hobbies include writing books and spending way too much time reading http://slashdot.org/. His outdoor hobbies include orienteering and practicing archery within sight of JFK Airport.
William is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society—how we create our tools and how our tools in turn shape us. He is married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits and has two amazing sons.
You can reach William through his website at http://williamrice.com.
Many of the course materials used in this book's demonstration course are supplied by Open High School of Utah, an innovative and fully online public charter high school that produces quality courses and releases them to the public. Specific thanks goes to the Earth Systems creator and teacher, Jessica Mordecai and to Curriculum Director, Sarah Weston. Learn more at www.openhighschool.org.
About the Reviewers
David Hopkins is a regular blogger on aspects of learning technology, Blackboard, CMS/VLEs, social networks, and other aspects of the utilization of technology in a pedagogic environment. He started blogging about his experiences and activities in 2008, but has been an advocate of blogging and online 'communities' since 1999. His first role was as a web designer.
Using advances in social media and social networks, David has made the most of what is available and has grown an international reputation for his blogging and conference activity. You can follow David on his e-learning blog (www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk) and on Twitter (@hopkinsdavid), where he writes on the aspects of e-learning, m-learning, pedagogy, learning technology, social media, and social networks.
Berkley Kilgore has been trained by Blackboard to do independent course design. She is a freelance designer who can develop courses in a number of subjects. She received her Bachelor's degree in Ancient History and Sociology, and has worked at American Heritage as the Museum Services Manager. She currently does consulting with them, and is receiving her MBA from the University of Maryland University College.
I would like to thank Elizabeth Kilgore for helping me receive my certification in Blackboard, and keeping my spirits high.
Dr. Malcolm Murray, who was originally a biogeographer based at The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, joined the learning technologies team at Durham University in 2002. He holds a PhD in Geography and a postgraduate certificate in learning, teaching, and research in higher education. He has been a daily user of Blackboard—since Version 5—as a System Administrator, a Building Block Developer, and also at the chalkface to support his teaching.
Malcolm currently leads the learning technologies team at Durham and is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Education. He is a member of the UK Heads of eLearning Forum and Blackboard Idea Exchange. He is also a certified member of the Association for Learning Technology and a Director of Open Source Community for Educational Learning Objects and Tools (OSCELOT). Being a regular presenter at the Blackboard conferences in Europe and North America, he is a past winner of the Blackboard Greenhouse Award (2005), Blackboard Innovators Award (2008), and Blackboard Catalyst Award (2010).
Matthew Weathers is the Applied Instructional Technology Administrator in the Distance Learning Department of Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is also an Adjunct Instructor who has been teaching mathematics and computer science for the past decade or so. His background in the computer industry and his experience in teaching help him train other faculty in the use of Blackboard and other technology on a university campus.
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For Lisa, my loving wife and partner in everything good that I create. And for Liam and Gavin, whose love of learning just for the joy of it inspires me to keep learning.
-William Rice
Preface
Blackboard Essentials for Teachers gives you all the information you need to build and deliver great courses. The book shows teachers how to construct and deliver a professional quality course using Blackboard's most essential features. The book begins with a tour of a completed Blackboard course. Then you will see, step by step, how to build the example course using Blackboard's free site for teachers—coursesites.com.
As you work through the book, you will see exactly how the demonstration course is built. You will see how to add and use interactive activities, media, and other resources. You will also learn how to assess and communicate with students and manage them in groups. You will see how to add static material for the students to view, such as pages, links, and media. Then you will learn how to add interaction to your courses with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. The book demonstrates how to assess your students with assignments and tests. You will also see how to manage students in groups, and how to communicate with them using messages and announcements. Finally, you will learn the basics of the Blackboard grade book.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, The Blackboard Experience, allows you to tour our demonstration Blackboard course. At each stop on our tour, we will view it from a student's and teacher's role. This will help you learn two things. First, what a teacher can do with Blackboard and second, how decisions made by the course creator affect the student's experience.
Chapter 2, Organizing a Course with Pages and Learning Modules, shows you how to add, remove, and rearrange pages. You will see how to organize course material into learning modules.
Chapter 3, Adding Static Material to a Course, shows you how to add links, web pages, and files to a course. You will learn how to upload your own files, and to use files that other people in your organization have uploaded into the content collection.
Chapter 4, Discussion Boards, shows you how to add and use discussion boards in your course. We'll also look at the capabilities and limitations of discussion boards.
Chapter 5, Blogs and Wikis, shows you how to add and use blogs and wikis in your course. We'll look at the capabilities and limitations of each tool, to help you decide when to use each one.
Chapter 6, Assignments, focuses on creating assignments where the student must submit or upload a file. You will learn how to review and respond to the files that students submit.
Chapter 7, Testing Students, shows you how to add several kinds of questions to your quizzes using Blackboard. You can also add media and descriptive pages. You can control the page breaks in a quiz and create several kinds of feedback. All of these features are covered in this chapter.
Chapter 8, Working with Groups, helps you learn about groups, which enable students to work together. You can create tools and resources, which only the members of a group can access, such as a group Assignment or a group Wiki.
Chapter 9, Communicating with Students Using E-mails, Messages, and Announcements, helps you learn how to send messages to our students, and how to post course announcements.
Chapter 10, Using Collaborate/CourseSites Live, helps you learn about Collaborate, which is Blackboard's application for holding live, web-based sessions with your students. It shows you how to configure audio and video settings, share a PowerPoint slideshow, use the chat feature, share an application, and so on.
Chapter 11, Grading Students, shows you how to use the most often-used features of the gradebook. You will learn how to review the students' grades for your course, including filtering and organizing the display of grades. You will also learn how to associate graded items with a grading period. You will see how to find items that need to be graded, and some options for entering grades. There is a lot to the gradebook, and this chapter gives you a solid start in making the best use of it.
What you need for this book
To use this book, you need only basic computer skills, and a desire to build and deliver the best online courses you can. You don't need any background in online teaching or building web pages. If you are an experienced teacher, you will be able to translate many of the teaching techniques that you use in the classroom, to Blackboard.
Who this book is for
If you are a teacher or a course builder, you need only basic computer skills to get the most from this book. You don't need any background in online teaching or building web pages.
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Chapter 1. The Blackboard Experience
In this chapter, we will tour our demonstration Blackboard course. At each stop on our tour, we will view it from a student role. While looking at the course from a student's point of view, we'll discuss the settings and features that the instructor used, to create what we see. This will help you to learn what you can do with Blackboard. It will also show you how decisions made by the course creator affect the student's experience.
During our tour, we will see many of the features covered in this book, including the following:
Home page
Our first stop after logging in the course home page:
In this example, Homepage includes modules such as My Announcements, My Calendar, What's New, and To Do. We will take a closer look at some of these modules later. For now, you should know that when an instructor views this page, (s)he will see two buttons at the top of the page, which a student doesn't see—Add Course Module and Customize Page:
These buttons enable the instructor to add and rearrange the modules on the page. (Your Blackboard system might not allow instructors to use these buttons. If you don't have these buttons, ask your system administrator if you have been given the ability to arrange and add modules.)
Also notice the Edit Notification Settings button under What's New and To Do, and the editing icons in the upper-right corner of each module. These are seen only by the instructor. These extra buttons and icons are a good example of how Blackboard changes the display for students and instructors.
Announcements
Let's take a brief look at Announcements:
Note that clicking on the arrow icon next to Announcements displays a pop-up menu. When you want to open or affect an item, Blackboard often places the menu items for doing this, in a pop-up menu next to the item. When you want to manipulate an item, look for the pop-up menu (the arrow icon) next to that item, and if you can't find the pop-up menu, then look in the menu bar at the top of the page.
In this example, clicking on Open brought us to the Announcements page. This shows all the announcements that the student has received for this course:
Note that when a student accesses Announcements from the front page of a course, the student is viewing the announcements for that course only, and not for any other courses. In addition, Announcements are displayed and hidden according to the dates set by the instructor.
You will learn how to use the Announcements tool in Chapter 9,Communicating with Students Using E-mails, Messages, and Announcements.
Discussion Board
Also within the What's New area, we find Blogs, Discussion Board, and Gradebook:
A course can have a blog for all of the students in a course. It can also have a blog for each group of students within the course. And, each student can have his/her individual blog. You will learn more about blogs in Chapter 5, Blogs and Wikis, and about working with groups in Chapter 8,Working with Groups.
By default, there is a discussion board for a course. Under this board, there are forums. Forums are composed of threads, which are composed of posts written by the course participants. In some Learning Management Systems, there can be multiple forums spread throughout the course. In Blackboard, the Discussion Board
