Weaving the Social Web into Learning:Blackboard as a Learning PortalBritt WatwoodWilliam “Bud” DeihlVirginia Commonwealth University

Weaving the Social Web into Learning:Blackboard as a Learning PortalBritt WatwoodWilliam “Bud” DeihlVirginia Commonwealth University

Who's Here?

There was a time

when information was scarce

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How Have Recent Changes on the Web Opened Up Opportunities for Teaching and Learning?

opportunities to redesign traditional Bb classes

Controlled Access ( + and - )

Social BookmarkingBlogsWikiWebConferencing

Tag for Your CourseTo share this item with the rest of the students in this course, tag with: TEDU560 PlusDescriptive related tagTEDU560

My Tags (104)Related Tags…Others’ Tags (443)

Became common to see in homework citationsFrequently commented by students, e.g.“Check the cool site I tagged in delicious.”I became conscious of some of my students’ personalities through their tagclouds

Group RoomsVirtualRoundtableConferencePresos

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