You may have already heard through the grapevine, or via a recent listserv email, that Mark O’Neil has left his post at Dartmouth College, where he worked for the past 12 years as the Blackboard Curricular Systems Engineer, to join Blackboard as a Technical Product Manager on the Product Management team.

We are very excited to welcome Mark to Blackboard! In his new role he will become a champion for the Blackboard community of developers, actively engaging and building relationships with that community, as well as overseeing and executing programs designed to engage Blackboard developers throughout all aspects of the development life-cycle.

For more about Mark’s career and experiences at Dartmouth and his recent transition to Blackboard, check out his post on the Dartmouth Curricular Computing blog and a post from Inside Higher Ed’s Joshua Kim: Blackboard's Smartest Decision.

Look for Mark to become an active voice here on Blackboard Blogs (he’s got some great stuff to share) and don’t forget to follow him on Twitter @mark_oneil.

Ray Henderson (@readmeray) is back at the keys, with an update to his earlier “Grading Ourselves” post and another one on the importance of asynchronous learning tools.  

Hello, world. I’m back to keys after a hiatus of several weeks. Your encouragement to me to keep up my reporting whilst performing my other duties has been heard, and I’ve got a backlog to share (if you missed Joshua Kim’s encouragement it makes for interesting reading on Inside Higher Ed (http://tinyurl.com/blogmoreray). 

More to come from Ray on other fronts.  Stay tuned.

Don’t forget to follow Ray on Twitter – @readmeray. And to keep up with the latest from Blackboard, follow us at @Blackboard.