Student Support Tab in Bb

Thanks to Josh Smith for taking the lead in creating a superb tool for online students: an online student orientation.   We have long needed this and hopefully this resource can go a long ways towards getting our students ready for online learning.  To access the resource, visit Blackboard and click the Student Support tab at the top right of the page.

PowerPoint Tool

Here's a tip from Paige: a nifty tool to jazz up PowerPoint presentations:

http://www.authorstream.com/desktop/

Online Bb Training

Archived Fall 2010 Sessions
http://elearning.kctcs.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-1913846_4

Archived Spring 2011 Sessions
http://elearning.kctcs.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-38588169_4

Bb How-To Basics
http://elearning.kctcs.edu/bbcswebdav/xid-1155477_4

Strengths of Online Learning

This link provides supportive data from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the Strengths of Online Learning. http://ow.ly/5HZys

National Science Digital Library Loses Funding

Below is a link to an article from Inside Higher Ed indicating that the funding for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) will be defunded beginning 2012. Another tragedy of reduced funding in education.

http://goo.gl/Cx81Z

Blackboard Gradebook

Paige Brooks-Jeffiers authored this great post with suggestions for novel ways of using/setting up the Bb Gradebook:

http://blog.blackboard.com/blackboard-higher-ed-blog/four-effective-uses-of-the-blackboard-grade-center

Khan Academy

Below is the URL to the Khan Academy which provides more than 2,100 free videos on a variety of subject areas.  You can login using a Google Account.

http://www.khanacademy.org/