eLearning at Okanagan College

Blackboard CE 8 for Designers and Instructors

• Blackboard - Designing and Teaching Essentials (241 page pdf)
• University of Idaho instructor help
• workshop handout: Blackboard Basics for Instructors & Designers 
• copying content from another section in Blackboard CE 8 (pdf)
• simplified guide for creating a turnitin assignment in Blackboard CE 8
• Blackboard CE 8.0.2 supported browsers and operating systems

• Quick Guide for Students (2 page pdf)
• OC Blackboard demo video clips
• University of Idaho student help
• tutorials and student orientation from College of New Caledonia
• online student orientation from Langara College
• simplified guide to submitting a turnitin assignment in Blackboard CE 8

Field Guides

• how-to guides for Blackboard CE 8
• how-to guides for other technologies
• Just Enough HTML
• Rubrics, Roles and Successful Online Discussions (pdf)
• Streaming a wmv video on the Web
• Creating a flashvideo for the Web
• A quick way to get pictures into PowerPoint
• Compressing Images in PowerPoint
• Student guide to using the Interwrite PRS-RF clicker

• Using CDs and DVDs (pdf)
• problems downloading from Explorer
• user guide
• IBM X60 tablet PC user guide

Videoconferencing

• vcalberta.ca excellent site with research & best practice content

Helper applications / content viewers

• PowerPoint Viewer (free download from Microsoft)
• Quicktime for Windows (free download from Apple)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download from Adobe)
• configuring Internet Explorer to show pdf files Adobe Support Page
• configuring the browser to show pdf files simplified version in html
• APA style guidelines (on-line version from U of Calgary) 

Interesting Ideas about eLearning

• Involving students in online course design
• Online course materials and absenteeismfrom the chicago tribune

Copyright

• Dealing with Digital Copyright (pdf) FAQ at end of article is helpful