Thursday, 12 February 2009
Blackboard 9
I'm just posting this as an experiment to see whether this blog might be able to do the job of Minerva's Owl. It's just a quick follow up to Ian and Joe's comments on Blackboard 9. I've had a quick look at the promotional screencast and it looks to me like Blackboard have finally entered the 21st century. Up to now their new releases have felt like increasingly convoluted efforts to make an old-fashioned filing system look and feel a bit like a Web 2.0 application. This version certainly looks like a dramatic shift (as you say, Ian, it will mean significant retraining), but I think it's one that we should adopt as quickly as is reasonable.
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Thanks for posting the BB9 presentation link, James - I agree that it looks a lot more like what we want BB to be: an interactive, collaborative workspace. I'd be interested to find out in more detail about how the blogging tools are set up (RSS and all) - but this is a much needed improvement. (I seem to recall that Learning Solutions had been working with Blackboard on a new release, so perhaps we're looking at that results of that...) r
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