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Title: Compare and Contrast : Blackboard


1
Compare and Contrast Blackboard a Personal
Web Page
Youll find this presentation (and another) here
www3.ltu.edu/s_schneider/howto/faculty.htm
2
Compare and Contrast Blackboard a Personal
Web Page
What are are the pros and cons of each, in terms
of ease of use, flexibility, ability to load
images/scripts/java/etc.
3
Accessing the Site
  • Personal Web page (WEB) 24/7
  • Open access constant address
  • BlackBoard (BB) some down time
  • Guest account if not in the class
  • Look at the new Preview button on the login
    screen!

4
Posting Info on the Web
  • BlackBoard (BB) Very Easy!!
  • Just point and click to upload
  • Personal Web page (WEB) Harder!
  • Need web editor .. And server!
  • (We have one for faculty .. www3.ltu.edu)

5
Organization of Material
  • BB built in
  • common interface
  • WEB you have to create it
  • But more flexible? Also more work!

6
Fancy Text Formatting
  • Both can do this!
  • WEB you are probably already doing it
  • BB you can add some simple tags
  • See Adding HTML to Blackboard here
  • www3.ltu.edu/s_schneider/howto/bbtags.htm

7
Location of Files
  • WEB static
  • Always same place - constant
  • BB changes each term
  • Can be archived
  • But, what about image links we explore later?

8
Links to other web pages
  • BOTH
  • BB easy to add
  • Also get a world icon
  • WEB you are already doing this
  • Could couple WEB with BB?
  • Store things on WEB and call from BB
  • Best of static vs changing conflict

9
Uploading files?
  • BB electronic drop box!!
  • WEB much harder to do ..
  • Also, we now have Outlook Express

10
Email??
  • BB this will probably be the model!!
  • We will have access to our classe lists here
  • Not sure how Banner comes into play?
  • Limitation to one email address?
  • WEB (no access to student addresses)
  • Outlook Express maintain all students as
    contacts Unlikely!

11
Displaying images within BB?
  • Can link to external images
  • Can display external images
  • Must add a bit of HTML code
  • Can link to LOCAL images!
  • Use a hidden folder
  • Can display LOCAL images
  • Lets try adding images .

12
Open your BB page
  • Then go to the CONTROL PANEL down on the lower
    left thats where we make the changes to the BB
    site.

13
Making folder for images
  • Click on the COURSE Documents to add a new folder
    for our images

14
Add folder and name it
  • Click on the Add Folder button
  • Name it something (like Images)

15
Hidden folder!
  • Heres a neat trick .. Make it a hidden folder
    (seen by you, not by students)
  • (Note You might want to make the image folder
    available to the students also the following
    techniques will work either way.)

16
Add a document to Images
  • Double-click on the folder name (to enter it)
  • Click on Add Item to add in an image as a
    document

17
Adding an image
  • Browse your local machine to upload the image
  • Create a link to the image
  • Note You could also display it directly! .. But
    we will be happy just with the link

18
Find link to the image
  • Right click on image link
  • We want to copy it to the clipboard
  • in IE in NETSCAPE

19
Link copied to memory
  • Could paste it into Notepad temporarily
  • Note, we are seeing the course info in the
    string, but this is on the Blackboard server we
    dont need our own server!!

20
New folder/document
  • Make a new folder and document (this we will show
    the students)
  • Well put a link to the image, as well as the
    image itself!

21
Add some HTML code !
22
Link vs embedded Image
  • Link uses anchor tag you click to see it
  • ltA HREF"http//mypage.com/pink.JPG"gtLinklt/Agt
  • inline image uses IMG tag
  • ltIMG SRC"http//mypage.com/pink.JPG"gt

23
Mixture of text and html
  • Link uses anchor tag
  • inline image uses IMG tag
  • Both of these are external images!

24
What about Local images?
  • Add that link we just copied from within
    Blackboard!

25
Seeing the rough output
  • Gives link (opens image into window) or shows
    the image there
  • Doesnt matter if it is external or internal
    both work!
  • But, this format is not as pretty compare
    sideways?

26
Use Tables to format
27
Tables look better?
28
Other things?
  • PERL/JAVA/PHP
  • BB not right now future?
  • Could call up other pages with it though!
  • WEB if you can host it, you can run it
  • Maybe BB gives us confidence to use Personal Web
    pages more and more .. Can couple the two for a
    powerful combination

29
Conclusions?
  • BB very easy to use a little limited
  • WEB harder to use more flexible
  • At the very least, BB WEB would be more
    powerful than either alone
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