I use Blackboard (formerly WebCT) for managing my courses, especially the online ones. I’m getting really sick of ongoing issues with it, though. It’s the only choice we have for a course management system at UTPA, currently. Here we see how Bb (like many other kinds of products) maintains its little local monopolies: if I switch, then students taking my class will have to learn a system that’s different from every other class they take, and I’ll have to go through the obnoxious process of importing or rebuilding all my content. But I’m tellin’ ya, it’s gettin’ on my noives. I might just do it anyway, and here’s why. Some of the following issues have been going on for years (I’ve been using WebCT or Bb since about 2001): Continue reading →
Entries from June 2009 ↓
Blackboard versus Moodle or Maybe a Kick in the Head
June 16th, 2009 — thoughts
You can’t spell it, but you can see it!
June 12th, 2009 — photos
This is a poster I just made for my talented wife’s eleemosynary, a Lee Blessing play. As you can see, it will be awesome. I’ve seen the rehearsals: you’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl feel a sense of deep emotional satisfaction.