blackboard webinar on blackboard student user experience at bishop o'dowd high school
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In March 2012, I participated in a webinar sponsored by Blackboard Learn, in which I demonstrated how Bishop O'Dowd High School used the Blackboard Learn learning management system, along with third-party integration products like Google Apps and Turnitin to increase the positive user experience of our students.TRANSCRIPT
BISHOP O’DOWD HIGH SCHOOLBishop O’Dowd High
SchoolFinding God in All Things
K-12 Catholic, College Prep Institution
Enrollment: 1,1501:1 Laptop School
Dual Platform Environment
Local DeploymentBlended
Environment
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
At Bishop O’Dowd, Blackboard
provides our students with a unified learning experience
which allows them to access disparate instructional
material and content, bringing them
together into a cohesive learning environment.
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Blackboard Learn™
Third-Party Integration
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Blackboard Learn™
Student User Experience (UX)
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Third-Party Integration Products Google Apps
Docs Calendar YouTube
Turnitin.com Grademark PeerMark Originality Check
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Student User Experience
Beginning in the 2010-2011 School Year, teachers began to rethink how they used Blackboard.
The result was a dramatic shift in how content is organized and presented.
Students and Teachers have found using Blackboard to be more useful, and easier to use.
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Previously, Course Info Sheets needed to be downloaded, opened, printed, read, signed, and returned to the teacher.
Course Info Sheets
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Course Info Sheet is now an embedded Google Form, which the students sign & submit electronically.
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Course Info Sheets
The results are populated into a live Google Spreadsheet, with a Timestamp.
Not only does this eliminate paper waste, but this can be done in-class, without waiting for printers.
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Assignments & Calendars
For Tom Beatty’s Math classes, assignments were a hodgepodge of file types and instructions.
Not only was this cumbersome for students to access, but it was a repetitive process for Tom.
Before
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Assignments & CalendarsAfter
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Curriculum
(It also helps them manage distractions)
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Embedding multimedia content into Blackboard allows teachers to frame their content in a way that flows naturally for their students.
A single environment for
students and teachers, from assignment to
evaluation.
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Blackboard On-line Live Tutoring
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Blackboard’s integration of Elluminate Live! has been a win for our students, who use it to get homework help.
Counselors, Club Moderators, & other
Stakeholders are using Blackboard to facilitate
student engagement and discussion.
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolBlackboard Learn™
Bishop O’Dowd High SchoolFinding God in All Things