BbFS 19 Nick Laudato, University of Pittsburgh

The Univ. of Pittsburgh has been using Blackboard since the summer of 1998. Nick Laudato, Associate Director of the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education, talks about their various training techniques, their use of course templates, and their Mcast site (http://www.pitt.edu/~ciddeweb/) which contains many presentations on a variety of subjects.

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BbFS 18 Gary Friesen, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana

Gary Friesen, Director of Academic Technology at Taylor University, creates a course site for each of the 1,850 students at Taylor, so they can use it as an ePortfolio site. He keeps a blog of his activites at grfriesen.typepad.com and manages a Tablet PC lab, among other topics that we discuss.

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Blog: http://grfriesen.typepad.com/

BbFS 17 Liz Van Kleeck, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

Liz Van Kleeck, an Educational Technologist in Academic Technology Services, part of ITS, at Loyola University, in Chicago, is involved in training, support, the digital media room, and the new information commons being built on the lake. Listen to her discussion of the exciting things taking place at Loyola.

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BbFS 16 David Fraedrich, Maricopa Community College District

The Maricopa Community College System is unifying all their CMS activites into Blackboard, managed by the District Office. The Blackboard Alliance, with representatives from each of the colleges, including administration, faculty, help desk, and teaching and learning, is organized to meet the needs of the users: students and faculty. Dave talks about their activities in this 34 minute interview.

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BbFS 15 Tony Turin, UNF

Tony Turin was the Online Learning Technology Coordinator of the Blackboard system at the University of North Florida and is now Business Analyst, Information Technology Services. He works closely with the Center for Instructional Technology to identify faculty needs and provide solutions through Blackboard and other ITS services. He also shares some of his experiences as coordinator of the BbSEUG Conference 2007.

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