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What Does It Mean to Deliver a ‘Black College Education’ Online?

Edsurge

For example, its annual Homecoming celebrations were hard to pull off virtually, she says. It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. None of them speak ‘Black space.’

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Worldwide Library 2.011 Conference - Call for Presentations

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

All sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate (previously Elluminate/Wimba). You can either be familiar with Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate, and the event platform), or we will have training sessions to help you become familiar if this is something you would like to do.

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Why Getting Help for Kids with Dyslexia is Difficult

MindShift

Think of children sitting in front of a blackboard, sounding out words as a teacher points to the letters that represent each sound. Whole language was big in the 1920s, for example, as progressive education became influential. ” Pam Guest, for example, did not have the financial means to send her son Dayne to private school.

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Week's Events - GlobalEd Waitlist - CoSN - Google Forms - Breaking Down Library Walls - Better Than College - OZeLive Kudos

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

See examples of how Shannon and I are doing it (poetry summit, virtual debate, author visits, class vista etc). Join via Blackboard Collaborate here.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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AI, Instructional Design, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Uploading a syllabus PDF into Blackboard is not instructional design. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. The following examples are from ChatGPT.) You know what else isn’t instructional design? The creation of accurate descriptions and explanations of facts, theories, and models.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.” Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations? But wait wait wait.