1. Using Blackboard Effectively Lynna Ausburn Assistant Professor, Occupational Education Studies Oklahoma State University

2. Everyone Knows What Blackboard Can Do… …And How to Use Its Features and Functions

3. Let’s Think about Some Ways to Make it Work… BETTER!

4. Teaching ON Blackboard Teaching WITH Blackboard VS.

5. Use Your Skills and Personality

6. Put Some New Colors in the Blackboard Paintbox

7. Use your Blackboard course “LIVE” and “on the fly” during class meetings

8. Put a Q & A Forum on the Discussion Board

9. Put an “Open Forum” or “Your Stuff” on the Discussion Board for student use

10. Use the Discussion Board synchronously for LIVE online discussions

11. Have live conversations with small groups of students in the Virtual Classroom

12. Encourage students to use the Virtual Classroom for conversations among themselves

13. 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

14. Have students put assignments on the Discussion Board Have asynchronous discussions of the postings Have “live” synchronous discussions

15. Create a class “BLOG” Use a web tool and link the BLOG to Blackboard BLOG on Blackboard www.blogger.com

16. Conduct a class research project via the Blackboard site

17. Conduct a class Delphi project via the Blackboard site

18. Conduct a WebQuest on your Blackboard site Link WebQuest to Blackboard WebQuest on Blackboard by combining several features

19. Anatomy of a WebQuest

20. Example of a WebQuest

24. Where to Learn about WebQuests WebQuest Page http://webquest.sdsu.edu http://webquest.sdsu.edu WebQuest Portal http://webquest.org http://webquest.org Working the Web for Education: WebQuests 101 http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct00/ march.htm http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct00/ march.htm About WebQuests: Examples and Tutorials http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/quests.html http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/quests.html

25. Link Activities Created with a variety of tools to your Blackboard Online lesson created with TrackStar http://www.4teachers.org ROI TrackStar

26. Link Activities Created with a variety of tools to your Blackboard Online “Matching” Game created with QUIA http://www.quia.com http://www.quia.com Quia game

27. Using Blackboard Effectively Who’s Got QUESTIONS?