Blackboard Blogs

Meet Blackboard User Group Member Ed Garay

SLATE Member Ed Garay, assistant director of academic computing for the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses his presentation to the 2008 SLATE Conference, held annually by the Midwest Blackboard User Group:

Visit the BlackboardTV Channel on YouTube to search categorized playlists containing interviews with more user group members and scores of instructional videos created by Blackboard users.

Can K-12 Instructors Join Blackboard User Groups?

Yes! Blackboard user groups help instructors in both higher ed and K-12. Here's Catie O'Boyle, an eighth grade teacher from Madison Junior High School in Illinois, discussing some of the sessions she attending during the 2008 SLATE Conference in Chicago:

To find a user group in your area, visit Blackboard Connections. To see interviews with more user group members from the K-12 community, visit the BlackboardTV Channel on YouTube.

Blackboard User Group Spotlight: CSBUG

Blackboard users around the globe run dozens of independent user groups.  Here Heath Tuttle of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln discusses the Central States Blackboard User Group (CSBUG):

Several Blackboard user groups, including CSBUG, have dedicated playlists for their videos archived at the BlackboardTV Channel on YouTube.