The wonders of technology
Jul. 26th, 2009 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI just created my first Blackboard site.* Huh. So far I have no plans for it besides uploading a ton of things I've scanned in for my students to read, using it to hold the images they're going to write their first paper on, and using the grading fuction, but if I decide to bother, I can also have them use the message board, write blogs, make something resembling a wiki, give them surveys or quizzes, and, apparently, more.
I don't really see me doing any of that, since I don't even want to give quizzes in class unless I absolutely have to (read: scare the crap out of them if they aren't doing the reading), and they're already going to be doing a decent amount of writing for homework assignments. But just having it there, ready to be customized and have its readings uploaded as soon as the software combines my two course sites into one, makes me feel all instructorly. Or something.
(The grading fuction, by the way, is incredible. I won't have to do any math this year at all! None! I just put in the relative values of the assignments and the points each kid earns for each assignment, and the software does all the rest! And it shows them their grades in real time, so no annoying "Can I see my grade?" requests! WOOT! I know a spreadsheet would do something similar, but that would require learning how to use spreadsheets. This is completely obvious even to people like me. Plus, they can see their grades. Win-win.)
* Kenyonites: Blackboard is a much spiffier version of the ERes system.
I don't really see me doing any of that, since I don't even want to give quizzes in class unless I absolutely have to (read: scare the crap out of them if they aren't doing the reading), and they're already going to be doing a decent amount of writing for homework assignments. But just having it there, ready to be customized and have its readings uploaded as soon as the software combines my two course sites into one, makes me feel all instructorly. Or something.
(The grading fuction, by the way, is incredible. I won't have to do any math this year at all! None! I just put in the relative values of the assignments and the points each kid earns for each assignment, and the software does all the rest! And it shows them their grades in real time, so no annoying "Can I see my grade?" requests! WOOT! I know a spreadsheet would do something similar, but that would require learning how to use spreadsheets. This is completely obvious even to people like me. Plus, they can see their grades. Win-win.)
* Kenyonites: Blackboard is a much spiffier version of the ERes system.
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Date: 2009-07-27 02:48 am (UTC)No, those will have been replaced by the even more annoying, "When will you have finished grading X and putting the grades online?" requests. Online gradebook = evil.
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Date: 2009-07-27 03:33 am (UTC)