LMS 42 Rosemary Skeele, Seton Hall

Rosemary Skeele describes how Seton Hall is using the Waypoint addon for Blackboard to help assess learning, primiarily for accreditation purposes. Waypoint allows you to integrate rubrics into Blackboard and in the process opens new possibilities. Rosemary will be presenting "Blackboard and Waypoint: Perfect Together" at BbWorld'08, July 15-17.

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LMS 41 David Carter-Tod, Virginia CC System

Anyone who is part of the Blackboard community will be familiar with Davd Carter-Tod. As a Blackboard administrator, he wrote the Javascript that kept students from printing or copying tests. He has participated in the BLKBRD-L, giving his time to help other system admins and discuss important topics. In this interview he talks about his responsibilities now, as Information Systems Architect for the Information Technology Services of the Virginia Community College System. He also talks about his philosophy on applying upgrades and where he feels his systems should be relative to the current Blackboard release.

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LMS 40 Donna Wicks, Kettering Univ, Mich

Donna Wicks, at Kettering University, put Blackboard 8.0 into production before any other school that we know of. Kettering had been part of the beta program, so they were ready to go the day 8.0 was officially released. Donna explains why they made the move so early, what plans they had made in advance, and how things went.

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(The Blackboard Faculty Support - BbFS - Podcast series has been renamed the Learning Management System - LMS - Podcast series. The web site is http://lmspodcast.com)

BbFS 39 Theresa Van Hoy, St. Mary's University, TX

Theresa Van Hoy is the instructor who, with Azalea Boehm (previously interviewed: BbFS34), won an Exemplary Course Award in 2007 for "The Sacred Feminine in Latin America." It is interesting to be able to hear from both the instructional designer (Azalea) and the instructor (Theresa) to see how they worked together and complemented each other's strengths. Theresa is now the Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.

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View course: The Sacred Feminine in Latin America
Go to Azalea Boehm's interview

BbFS 38 Joanne Nicoll, University of Pittsburgh

Joanne Nicoll, Associate Director of the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education, University of Pittsburgh, won one of the Blackboard Exemplary Course awards in 2007 for the "Allied Health Education" course. Hear the interview and review the course.

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View course: Allied Health Education