An interesting article from The Journal on the emerging trend in higher education to bring more courses online.
 

“Experiencing a huge demand for college courses taught over the Web and not wanting to be swept aside by competitors from the commercial sector, universities are often pressuring faculty to teach courses online. Many faculty members have [...]

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I HEART using post-it sheets in class. Matter of fact, I use Post-it notes too . . . but that’s another blog entry. Especially when I taught the same course to multiple classes, it helped me minimize the amount of writing I did. It also allows you to keep concepts ‘around’ even when you [...]

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I Heart Prezi [www.prezi.com]. Non-linear powerpoint? Are you kidding me?
Well, I love this tool. Heere’s my first public prezi-nation.

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This tutorial will demonstrate how to create and administer Discussion Boards in Blackboard 9.1. To learn more about Blackboard, view the [Discussion Baord section|http://a.nnotate.com/php/pdfnotate.php?d=2010-08-05&c=Ntj4BD81#page56_note25http://a.nnotate.com/php/pdfnotate.php?d=2010-08-05&c=Ntj4BD81#page56_note25] from the [Blackboard User Guide|https://behind.blackboard.com/s/faculty/refcenter/docs/details.Bb?DocumentID=3421&pid=200&rid=-1&dt=].
h2. Creating a Discussion Board
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From any Content Page, you can click on the Discussion Board link.
h2. Alternatively . . .
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I used to get really excited about PDFs. I was an early adopter in using these for any web posts back in the early 2000s. I started to investigate some new formats for using PDFs in more collaborative and interactive ways.

Here’s a service called uniflip: This is an example of uniflip using a scrapbook.
Here [...]

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