Presentation at Colloquium in Scottsdale, Arizona

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Comment by Terry Wassall on December 22, 2007 at 8:36pm

Great slides. If you don'tmind I will link colleagues to the presentation as these are precisely the sorts of discussions we are having. Your slides will certainly spark off some ideas. We have just taken on BB but have added some additional tools to it, Wimba Live Classroom (rather than yugma e.g.) and a wiki tool that can be linked to specific courses and student groups (rather than use Google docs perhaps). Another thing we are looking at is social bookmarking. BB includes a tool for this but is is not open enough for what I have in mind.

Comment by Rick Lillie on December 23, 2007 at 1:45am

Hi Terry. I would be interested in learning about the wiki tool that you will be using. I have tried a couple of wiki tools before, but to be honest, have never been able to get the hang of how it is supposed to work. I want to be able to track someone's contribution to the wiki discussion. Wiki tools that I have seen do not provide this option. Is the Wiki you mentioned linked with BB?

Comment by Rick Lillie on December 23, 2007 at 1:48am

One downside of BB is its internal gradebook. When you post points to the BB gradebook, it tells the student about his(her) points, but does not give the student any sense of how he(she) ranks relative to everyone else in the class. I have found/used a great hosted gradebook service called "GradeSource" (http://www.gradesource.com/). You might want to take a look at this. It is much more versatile and gives students the feedback they ask for. In BB, I create a button for the opening page for Gradebook and then hyperlink to the online gradebookin GradeSource for a class. Students click the button on BB and the gradebook displays in the BB window. GradeSource creates a 4-digit random number for each student. This maintains the privacy issue.

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