Instructional Technology

The American University Center for Social Media has posted a great resource on “Remix Culture.” This Remix Culture is what AU has dubbed our current media landscape that embraces YouTube and other flexible, open media publishing platforms that allow for recombination of works from many sources.
Fair Use and Online Video (American University)
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Keeping your computer and gadgets current can be a real challenge, even with all the time in the world.  With a busy teaching schedule, it becomes next to impossible.  That’s why Instructional Technology within OIT has scheduled every Tuesday from 1:30 - 3:30 as a “Tech Tuesday.”  During these two hour timeslots, Beck Lab (on [...]

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Are you having trouble finding links to course content on Blackboard 9?  Perhaps your professor has assigned you a reading and you can’t find where she’s uploaded it or you are an instructor and can’t see your content areas while managing your course.  In either instance, it’s possible that you have inadvertently used the Sidebar [...]

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To assist you with supporting your classroom during a mild Pandemic Flu outbreak, Instructional Technology is offering an advanced Blackboard workshop entitled H1N1: Sustaining the Classroom with Blackboard 9. This one-hour workshop focuses on using the features in Blackboard that help faculty create an interactive and collaborative online experience for students. This workshop will cover [...]

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Instructional Technology is holding four Blackboard 9 Overview hands-on workshops on Thursday, 9/10 at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, Wednesday, 9/16 at 11:30 am and Thursday, 9/17 at 10:00 am in the Beck Instructional Lab. Come to one of these 60 or 90 minute sessions to discover all that Blackboard 9 has to offer. During the workshop, you [...]

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When naming assignments that you intend to grade in Blackboard 9, be sure to avoid using symbols like # in the name. The reason being: when collecting these assignments from the Grade Center using the Assignment File Download option, an error will prevent a complete ZIP archive from being created. So, as an [...]

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Don’t forget: there are still two Blackboard 9 Open Labs available this coming week.  Instructional Technologists will be on hand in Beck Instructional Lab during the following days and times:

Monday, August 31st from 1:00 - 4:30
Tuesday, September 1st from 1:00 - 3:00

Please stop by with your Blackboard 9 questions and projects for one on [...]

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Backing up your Blackboard materials is just as important now that we’ve upgraded to version 9. One easy set of materials to back up are Grade Center grades. To aid in this process, we’ve created a step by step tutorial that you can access from the Instructional Technology homepage under Tips, Tricks & [...]

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Have you created Assignments for your students but now you can’t find where they’ve gone? Assignments (not of the SafeAssign or TurnItIn variety) can be found for review and grading by going to the Grade Center. If this doesn’t seem intuitive, we’ve created a step by step tutorial that you can view under the [...]

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Welcome back to another school year! As many of you are aware, OIT upgraded to Blackboard 9. Instructional Technology is holding Open Labs to assist faculty with Blackboard 9. The Open Labs are designed to be flexible and allows the IT staff to customize the training to your specific needs. Come to one of the [...]

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