This presentation (delivered in Las Vegas in July 2011 at the Blackboard Developers Conference) reflects on the work of 3 students who spent a summer learning and developing building blocks. Their project topics were provided by faculty. The experience highlights problems faced by novice building block developers and how to overcome these. It also provides suggestions for suitable and unsuitable test environments and ends with pointers for what constitutes a realistic (deliverable and maintainable) project, some of which come directly from the mouths of the students.
Learning and Communicating with the WebStaci Trekles
Empower yourself and your students to take advantage of free tools and resources on the Web for learning and communicating beyond the walls of the classroom
Learning and Communicating with the WebStaci Trekles
Empower yourself and your students to take advantage of free tools and resources on the Web for learning and communicating beyond the walls of the classroom
Learning and Communicating with the WebStaci Trekles
Empower yourself and your students to take advantage of free tools and resources on the Web for learning and communicating beyond the walls of the classroom
Learning and Communicating with the WebStaci Trekles
Empower yourself and your students to take advantage of free tools and resources on the Web for learning and communicating beyond the walls of the classroom
A workshop on specific tools that help mitigate academic integrity violations. Strategies for pedagogical ways to handle this issue are shared as well. Tools covered include SafeAssign, Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor, Remote Proctor Now, and ProctorU.
A workshop on how to work with all students on an equal playing field, including making sure your courses are accessible to students with disabilities.
Assessment: Managing Tests, Projects, and Grade CenterStaci Trekles
A Fall 2015 workshop on how to manage tests, projects, and the Grade Center within BlackBoard. Includes tips on how to develop effective tests that measure what they intend to measure.
A Virtual Environment for Designing User Interface Prototypes with Accessibil...Cynthia Calongne
Students and the instructor discuss the use of Second Life for prototyping and evaluating user interfaces in a CS 820 Usability and Interaction doctoral class.
The projects featured accessibility projects, including a news stand for low vision users, a refrigerator for users in wheelchairs and an electronic voting machine. The students designed low fidelity prototypes, then conducted usability tests with subjects from class and from other schools.
Presented at the CCSC Rocky Mountain Regional Conference 2008, October 17, 2008. Authors: Cynthia Calongne, Dawn Frankovich, Steven Endorf and Johnny Sandaire. See http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com for additional information.
Agile User Studies: Affordable, Iterative, Scalable, Team-Based User Feedback. Most Agile practitioners would agree that regular customer feedback is essential, but many teams struggle to obtain that information. Traditional usability tests seem too abstract, expensive, and time consuming. I will present a methodology that allows any team or practitioner to conduct affordable, iterative, team-based user studies. I will also share the result of applying this methodology at Cengage Learning over two years, multiple Agile teams, and dozens of projects.
A workshop about the ins and outs of assessment, including formative vs. summative assessment, and following each of Kirkpatrick's 4 levels, even in education, to produce higher-quality courses and programs that truly measure what they set out to measure.
A workshop on specific tools that help mitigate academic integrity violations. Strategies for pedagogical ways to handle this issue are shared as well. Tools covered include SafeAssign, Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor, Remote Proctor Now, and ProctorU.
A workshop on how to work with all students on an equal playing field, including making sure your courses are accessible to students with disabilities.
Assessment: Managing Tests, Projects, and Grade CenterStaci Trekles
A Fall 2015 workshop on how to manage tests, projects, and the Grade Center within BlackBoard. Includes tips on how to develop effective tests that measure what they intend to measure.
A Virtual Environment for Designing User Interface Prototypes with Accessibil...Cynthia Calongne
Students and the instructor discuss the use of Second Life for prototyping and evaluating user interfaces in a CS 820 Usability and Interaction doctoral class.
The projects featured accessibility projects, including a news stand for low vision users, a refrigerator for users in wheelchairs and an electronic voting machine. The students designed low fidelity prototypes, then conducted usability tests with subjects from class and from other schools.
Presented at the CCSC Rocky Mountain Regional Conference 2008, October 17, 2008. Authors: Cynthia Calongne, Dawn Frankovich, Steven Endorf and Johnny Sandaire. See http://ctusoftware.blogspot.com for additional information.
Agile User Studies: Affordable, Iterative, Scalable, Team-Based User Feedback. Most Agile practitioners would agree that regular customer feedback is essential, but many teams struggle to obtain that information. Traditional usability tests seem too abstract, expensive, and time consuming. I will present a methodology that allows any team or practitioner to conduct affordable, iterative, team-based user studies. I will also share the result of applying this methodology at Cengage Learning over two years, multiple Agile teams, and dozens of projects.
A workshop about the ins and outs of assessment, including formative vs. summative assessment, and following each of Kirkpatrick's 4 levels, even in education, to produce higher-quality courses and programs that truly measure what they set out to measure.
Jean-Claude Bradley presents on the use of smartphones, wikis and games for educational applications at a Drexel University Faculty Showcase on November 12, 2010.
PPT Presentation given on 10/22/08 for New Jersey Center for the Book "Showing Casing Information Literacies-New Dimensions" @ the Newark Public Library
Jean-Claude Bradley presents on "Technology and Students - Mix, Match or Miss?" at the Villanova Teaching and Learning Strategies Symposium on May 13, 2010. Topics covered include screencasting, wikis, games and Second Life, with a particular focus on student response to these technologies.
Making the Most of the New File Upload Question Feature in an LMS: Nine Appl...Shalin Hai-Jew
In Canvas and Qualtrics, a recent new feature enables learners (or survey participants) to upload digital files. While these have varying limits—of file sizes, of file types, of file handling, identification or anonymization of file uploaders, and the level of sharing of uploaded files—it is useful to think of assignment possibilities in order to maximize this feature. This presentation provides some preliminary instructional design for how to build effective assignments using the file upload feature. This session also involves considerations like intellectual property, privacy rights, and proper handling of digital contents by learners and instructors. There are also considerations for data security and protections.
Finally, there are discussions about memory limits for file uploads (within an online course), as well as digital preservation (whether the uploaded files are temporary and transient or semi-permanent or permanent, for learning purposes).
Preservation of Web Resources: The JISC PoWR Projectlisbk
Slides for talk on "Preservation of Web Resources: The JISC PoWR Project" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the iPRES 2008 conference on 29 September 2008.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ipres-2008/
This presentation examines three categories of technology for use in Higher Ed Instruction:
1) Web2.0: Slides 5 - 17
2) Cell Phones: Slides 18 - 31
3) Virtual World Learning and Second Life: Slides 33 - 56
Rethinking Pedagogies with New Technologies (Solent Exchange 2013)Julian Prior
Presentation by Sam Taylor and Julian Prior at Solent Exchange 2013 at Southampton Solent University, Tuesday September 16th. The focus of the presentation is on rethinking our ways of teaching and learning in preparation for the new teaching building due to be completed in 2015. The 'Flipped Classroom' is the key teaching innovation discussed.
ALTC presentation, Edinburgh 3rd September 2019.
Authors: Ross Parker, Candace Nolan-Grant & Malcolm Murray
Durham University, UK
Reflections on a one year University-wide roll-out of lecture capture at a UK University.
Durham University’s first institution-wide implementation of eXplorance BlueMalcolm Murray
Joint presentation with Julie Mulvey - Blue Admin,
Details how we used features in Blue such as the institutional hierarchy, DIG, Question Bank, Role-Based Dynamic Access to simplify the process. Also discusses a bespoke data manipulation tool (the QuBE) used to prepare data for evaluations.
Learning from student perspectives on digital assessmentMalcolm Murray
Presentation at #3riv18 2018 Three Rivers Conference delivered by Candace Nolan-Grant and Malcolm Murray. Discusses findings from four projects carried out looking at the staff and student experience of assessment.
Extending the breadth and depth of interaction using gamificationMalcolm Murray
A presentation given at the 2018 Blackboard Teaching & Learning Conference in Manchester.
We took a standard online Blackboard course and offered postgraduate students an alternative - the same content wrapped in a gamified "skin" developed in partnership with students. This alternative UI was designed to offer more scaffolding and measures of progress, and foster a set of competition using three large groups (based on their Faculty). Students were free to choose either format of course. In this session we look at patterns in the choices made, the degree of interaction with the course and its content and some unexpected consequences of this experimental design. Time will be spent explaining the design of the gamified skin (its support/dependence on standard Blackboard features) and the rationale behind these choices. A few other gamified approaches will be introduced and then the session will conclude with a discussion of whether gamified approaches could and should be used more widely in higher education.
This work was funded by a Durham University Enhancing the Student Experience Award and a HEFCE Catalyst Award.
Slides from a keynote presentation delivered at the National Institute of Education Administration, Beijing.
Note that slides are licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license except where a given slide uses an individual background image/artwork which requires a more restricted license (e.g. CC BY-NC-SA). In these cases the more restrictive license applies.
Student voice : is honesty the best policy?Malcolm Murray
Student voice: is honesty the best policy? Giving students control of TEL evaluations.
Presented at the Blackboard Teaching & Learning Conference in Dublin, 1st May 2014.
Speakers: Eleanor Loughlin, Anne Skerratt, Elaine Tan & Malcolm Murray
This presentation was delivered at the 2012 Blackboard Developer's Conference in New Orleans. It details lessons learned when creating custom content types that survive course copy.
A common Building Block task is to create a new custom content type in Blackboard. The new OpenDatabase allows you to easily create content with much greater functionality and awareness of other parts of Blackboard. You can even tidy up properly afterwards. Surely copying this content wouldn't prove too tricky? I was so wrong. This session explains how Blackboard expect this to happen, names the (undocumented) APIs and walks you through the lifecycle of a custom content item. The open source SignUp List building block is used as a case study.
Student feedback is a hot topic in higher education, with students demanding more of it, quicker. This session discusses a project that attempted to define the concept of feedback from both a student and faculty perspective and then develop workflows and possible extensions to Blackboard to improve the creation, delivery and learning from feedback.
Diagnosing account, enrolment and snapshot problems using the APIsMalcolm Murray
Presentation given at the 2010 Blackboard Developer's conference in Orlando. Looks at how you can use the Blackboard APIs to diagnose and fix problems with user accounts and course enrolments
Presentation delivered at BbWorld in Orlando, 15th July 2010. Explores the possibilities offered by Blackboard's course module page feature in 9.0, some of the pitfalls of this early implementation and ways round that.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
CLASS 11 CBSE B.St Project AIDS TO TRADE - INSURANCE
Letting the lunatics run the asylum - students developing code for the production environment
1. 12th July 2011 8:30 am Venetian Congress Center - Titian 2303 Letting the lunatics run the asylum - students developing code forthe production environment DrMalcolm MurrayDurham University, UK
8. Selecting Projects Previous trial allowed students to design their own projects – not very successful This time faculty submitted bids for student time via an open competition Students could choose from the list of bids which met the criteria
9. Aims of the Development Fund To enhance the learning and teaching experiences of Durham students To develop high quality electronic learning objects which enhance the learning experience of students in the University To enhance the employability of students by providing opportunities for summer placements working with staff to design and develop the ELOs
10. Potential Developers 2nd & 3rd Year Computer Science undergraduates Seeking Summer Employment Some Java Experience Only used Bb as a Student Never written a Building Block Limited Supervisor Availability http://www.zazzle.co.uk/no_crying_in_computer_science_mug-168267831934931190
16. Initial Issues with the Projects Required iterative/agile development Some projects very ambitious Threat of scope creep
17. What faculty are asking for… …vs. what we can realistically build http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=235422146882 http://www.flickr.com/photos/penguinbush/2768719983
19. Test Environment Gave each student a clean test server - virtual installs (on VMWare) Need Blackboard Sys Admin accounts Next time, may try VirtualBox
20. Security Concerns Totally isolated from production Ensure you use different passwords! Remember config files store these in plain text Server and database only accessible on-site Clean server – no “real” users or courses Forbid the creation of accounts for friends Draw their attention to the weblogs
21. Access all Areas? Definitely Not Root access – use sudo Didn’t but would next time Command line access to server Logs, config and property files, etc. Restarting the server Still considering Database access – more need in 9.1?
25. Supporting Novice Developers Provided a series of demo building blocks Portal Module Course Tool Custom Content Type Team work (peer support) Project Management
26. Documentation // TODO: DEVELOPER INPUT NEEDED HERE http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/access-denied-2c-underwear-C4408A14152441
35. Using the bbNG Tag Library Steep learning curve Few quirks with inventoryLists
36. Entitlement & Persistence Course Photo Roster Staff Info Who can see the photos? Course Role and Institutional Role Checks Persisting User Preferences User Registry
38. Implementation Issues Confusion – availability & row status Each photo took 0.3 seconds to load Copy them nightly as Avatar images Discovered these were insecure Not resolved until after project had ended
43. Recommendations Success requires staff commitment & planning Select projects and students carefully Early steps need extensive scaffolding Gets students familiar with thinking in Blackboard Try it: very rewarding, we will do it again!
44. Thank You To you – for attending this talk To Matthew, Chris & Daniel – for being fun to work with To all the staff in the Learning Technologies Team and the Technology Enhanced Learning Group - who provided support, time & advice
45. Questions? Get in touch: malcolm.murray@durham.ac.uk @learntechdurham @malcolmmurray http://www.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/blog/ http://building-blocks-developer.com/
46. Please provide feedback for this session on the back of used dollar bills sent to the author or by emailingDevConFeedback@blackboard.com. The title of this session is: Letting the lunatics run the asylum
Editor's Notes
This presentation reflects on the work of 3 undergraduate students who spent a summer learning and developing building blocks. Their project topics were provided by faculty. The experience highlights problems faced by novice building block developers and how to overcome these. It also provides suggestions for suitable and unsuitable test environments and ends with pointers for what constitutes a realistic (deliverable and maintainable) project, some of which come directly from the mouths of the students.
Warn the audience to watch what they say! Questions and video at end must not be recorded.
Who am I – someone who chose to code Blackboard stuff – to say who’s mad!!!
This is what some sys admins looked like when they first heard this idea!
Asking for the moon?
Students only know the bits of Blackboard that their lecturers have made them useFor example most don’t know that there is a course control panel
Really the heroes of this presentation/project
Used Google Wave (RIP)Allows them to ask for more information. Wave regularly monitored by members of the team. Ultimately they voted on things they wanted to do – a form of audit trail too!
Highly variable. Some very sparseFor sparse read skeletal, written by lecturers, very different to the detailed functional specs students used in previous CS projects
Balsamiq Mockups – great tool
Scope Creep – unequal power relations – hard for students to say no to staff – needs careful management
Testing on Load- balanced systems?
Weblogs = we know what you’re doing!
Log UI needs to be sortable before it is usable
Blackboard QA been at work?Usernames and passwordsWhy so closed?
Initially to share docs, then code samples, finally code!
Students often don’t use the same vocabulary as the manual to describe interface components
Clicking the More button triggers JavaScript that changes the link text from More to Less and toggles the visibility of the Hidden DIV.
Bug which meant you couldn’t edit content which had unclosed divs– so you couldn’t fix the problem – needed to be fixed – change pattern magic codeIs exposing the stack trace a security concern? Not in this case methinks!
Note data have been anonimised.
GlobalSettings too – properties file
Need dirty data for testing – hard to create blocked users. Some decisions took a long time – many committees didn’t meet over Summer!