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 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 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 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

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

Where to Learn about WebQuests WebQuest Page WebQuest Portal Working the Web for Education: WebQuests march.htm march.htm About WebQuests: Examples and Tutorials

Link Activities Created with a variety of tools to your Blackboard Online lesson created with TrackStar ROI TrackStar

Link Activities Created with a variety of tools to your Blackboard Online “Matching” Game created with QUIA Quia game

Using Blackboard Effectively Who’s Got QUESTIONS?