UMBC Blackboard
Update
Spring 2003
These updates
are provided by the Office of Information Technology for students,
faculty
and
staff using Blackboard at UMBC. If you have questions or suggestions,
contact John Fritz at fritz@umbc.edu
or 410.455.6596. For more information about using Blackboard, visit
http://blackboard.umbc.edu.
SUMMARY
1. FYI:
The Asynchronous Learning Networks Conference call for proposals
2. FYI:
4/11 TLT Fair Reminder
3. FYI: 2003 Blackboard User's Conference Presentations
Available Online
DETAILS
1.
FYI: Asynchronous Learning Networks Conference call for proposals
The Ninth Sloan-C
International Conference on "Asynchronous Learning
Networks (ALN): The Power of Online Learning: Implications for
Teaching and Learning" is announcing a call for proposals for their
November 14-16 conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference will
focus on the implications for the field of specific online learning
experiences and practices.
Proposals can be submitted
by going to http://www.aln.ucf.edu/submit .
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2.
FYI: 4/11 TLT Fair Reminder
The second UMBC Teaching,
Learning and Technology (TLT) Fair will be held on Friday, April
11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m at the Technology Center. In
addition to an 11 a.m. panel presentation by the 2002-2003 TLT Mini
grant recipients the
fair will also feature a keynote presentation by Steve Gilbert, president
of the TLT Group, a presentation by the administrators of the Merlot online
teaching and learning site, breakout sessions on the various university
teaching disciplines and a demonstration of Blackboard 6.
The agenda for this
workshop as well as a link for online registration can be found
on the workshop website.
For more information, contact John Fritz at 410.455.6596 or fritz@umbc.edu.
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3.
FYI: 2003 Blackboard User's Conference
Presentations Available Online
The Annual Blackboard
National Users Conference was recently held in Baltimore on February
25-27. Karin Readel presented a session on "Making Large
Classes Small: Building Student Engagement with Blackboard" and
John Fritz, Bob Armstrong and Dave Freeman attended to glean
as much information as possible about the upcoming 6.0 Blackboard
Learning System release.
Blackboard is making
available all of the conference presentation materials that were
shown during the breakout sessions so that faculty, staff and
students can see what other institutions are doing.
Examples of the numerous sessions include presentations on ecommerce,
hybrid courses, online assessments and creative ways of using
Blackboard communities.
The materials can be
viewed by going to http://www.mra-services.com/blackboardtradeshow03/ ,
clicking on "Program-At-A-Glance" and then clicking on the sessions
that you are interested in. The links to the PowerPoint presentations
are located inside each session description.
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