Archive for the ‘Blackboard 9’ Category

Screencasting with Screenr (2012-11-20)


For those of you interested in making free and easy screencasts that are immediately viewable on smart devices (including iOS devices) you may want to give Screenr a try. Like Jing, Screenr allows you to make a 5 minute screencast for free. However, they will host your video and will allow you to upload to [...]

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Editing & Embedding Your Faculty Front Door (2012-2-18)


In one of the faculty development courses I facilitate, I had a few questions about Faculty Front Door and how I embed websites into Blackboard posts. I designed the videos below to share some of these tricks with my colleagues at Valencia College. However, please note that anyone could use these videos to do the [...]

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Logging in to Blackboard (2011-10-12)


In the beginning of a semester, I often get emails from students asking how to access the online part of my classes. Here is a quick and easy video I made for them. They seem to prefer this over a handout.

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Searching Discussions in Blackboard 9 (2011-5-19)


While facilitating a class this morning, I got a great question. One I have had on more than one ocassion, so I took some time to make a quick training video. The question was, “How can I search my own posts in all of the discussions going on in Blackboard 9.” Although I personally recommend [...]

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