Online or Network Etiquette

While you are creating or modifying your Blackboard course it is a good ideas to share expectations about online etiquette with your students. There are many sites you can use to learn about netiquette. Here are two links to share with your students:

http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
http://www.studygs.net/netiquette.htm

Here is some background information about online etiquette
http://web.jccc.edu/edtech/notes/store/30/Netiquette.htm
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/

Blackboard Blog

Jonathan at Johnson Community College has a helpful blog entitled Blackboard Annotations . This site is has lots of tips, comments and issues related to Blackboard.

Ten Principles for The Effective Teaching of Blackboard

Bradley University conducted a study to identify best practices for using Blackboard in teaching and learning. The goal of the research was to develop recommendations for effective teaching using Blackboard as a course supplement.

Ten Principles Study

Resources for Teaching Online

The BCcampus Shareable Online Learning Resources (SOL*R) is an online service for BC public post-secondary educators to discover, share, and reuse Online Program Development Fund produced resources. Access provides for previewing resources and the option to download resources deemed useful in the public post-secondary educator’s teaching and learning context. If the new user modifies or improves the original resource, he or she must contribute it back to SOL*R for the benefit of all.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online

A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here at this site.

Blackboard Discussions and Forums

Online discussions and forums are much like face to face discussions: they require preparation and active management in order to facilitate student engagement. However, added complexities exist in the online environment such as getting students comfortable with the conferencing system and helping them to communicate clearly without the aid of nonverbal communication cues. The links below provide additional information on how to organize and manage online discussions with your students.

Organizing and Evaluating Online Discussions
Assessment of Online Participation