Blackboard

Along with taking three classes this semester I am also currently working on my internship. I know a bit an over achiever... but I wanted to be done in May and not mid summer. Anyway, I am currently co working on a project online, more specifically on Blackboard. My co intern and I read a book titled "My freshman year" which is about a anthropology teacher that enrolls in an University as a freshman. She wrote about her experience on the side of the student rather than the teacher. After talking with my intern supervisor, he decided that we should develop a training for Graduate Hall Directors based on this book. Basically to give them a different perspective of what an "outsider" sees. After all that rambling I am getting to my point, I swear! I saw that someone else's blog title was IT department missing something. After starting to put our training on Blackboard I have come to amazed with the capabilities that Blackboard has. Now I know there is a class that goes through some in depth discussions on what you can do with Blackboard but if I am correct it is only an elective. When scheduling for my classes somehow, without knowing about the class, I inadvertently ended up electing not to take that course. What a mistake! I am so amazed with the capabilities of a program like Blackboard. I definitly think there should be a mandatory class that both tracks, education and corporate need to take that deal with LMSs. In an ever increasing technological world, this is a fantastic tool to know how to work with, beyon the student level. Before this internship I never knew what you could actually do in Blackboard. Overall this is a very valuable tool that if I were a teacher I think I would use in every class. Hopefully when I get into the "real world" come May, I will be able to use LMS tools. I think that as soon as you learn how to use them, they are incredibly beneficial and easy to use!