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Let's take a look at week 2 and 3 (and a little bit of 4.)

looking bck at week 1.

This weldcome message and Blackboard tour will show you how to use the blackboard features specifically as they are used in this course. It also includes information about the course content and where to find it.

As anyone who uses technology in education knows, keeping up is a challenge. Successful strategies for keeping up almost always include the quest for parsimony - in other words finding a mother load of useful information which is available in a single place over s short time span. A colleague of mine and I attended just such an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The 2008 Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange ( TTIX08 ) was an event cram packed with people looking to share ideas and find ideas they could latch onto and use. The two day event featured speakers from across the US and in a few cases from beyond. All the sessions were videotaped and appear on the conference website at http://www.ttix.org/ A quick sample of usable technology is twitter ( twitter.com .) Do you already use it? Check it out. that and many more ideas filled pages of notes and laptops of those who attended this year.

Let's get started. This tour shows you how the Blackboard features are used in this course. During the first week, you ll get comfortable with the features and learn how to use them efficiently in order to save time.

How to send email in your Blackboard course -

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See how to start Camtasia and make a small video demo.

How to start using Camtasia.

This is a presentation about Ning, the social networking software.

Find out how to submit assignments in Blackboard.

Shows how to create a Learning Module in Blackboard.

There's not much humor to be found when it comes to the topic of drugs in America. Here's an exception.

The question you'll need to answer after watching this video is what role do consumer habits, corporations and media play in molding our consumer habits. You might also ask yourself how your own habits fit into the picture and in what ways, if any, you can change your habits.Do you think the picture of consumer habits portrayed in this video represents how the average citizen acts?

This video shows students how to post a comment on a selected blog in response to a blog article.

Welcome to the Spring term 2008 Social Problems course. This welcome tour will help get you off to a great start. dr p

I describe the limits of my use of video in sociology courses and use of videos in a training course.

This video shows you what to do with the mini-surveys that were gathered and how to add your results to results others have collected and then display them in tables.

Media consolidation has greatly limited the value of traditional media by failing to inform and educate us about important issues of the day. Think about how this hurts democracy and instead contributes to the 'dumbing down of America.'

Retrol old school view of suz wishing you the Best in 2008

Let's talk about evaluating your course shells, the transition to the online environment and more.

This explores how to use the fetures of the Grade Book.

This video shows you how to modify your course header so that it has the format which is similar to another header you wish to emulate.

This gives some suggestions for adding discussions topics, assignments and feedback items that help what may still be on your list of minimum requirements needed. Plus there is a brief mention of ADA compliance.

THis shows you one way to use some of the HTML creator's features in Blackboard.

A Look Back & A Look Ahead

This shows how to add custom links to your course menu.