IT news and products; Blackboard launches Scholar.Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. Inc. Have announced at the Annual Bb World Europe 2007 Users Conference in Nice, the launch of Scholar, a free, social bookmarking Ranking a Web site by users who like the content rather than by the total number of links to the site. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) let users tag their favorite sites with key words and post them for others to see. See folksonomy and page ranking. Web service, aimed at connecting faculty and students and enhancing teaching and learning, in the presence of 400 European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. and International e-Learning leaders. This new tool enables millions of Blackboard users-including faculty, students, and administrators-for the first time, to connect on a regular basis across institutions, and share resources. Scholar allows members of the Blackboard community to save and classify clas·si·fy tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies 1. To arrange or organize according to class or category. 2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret. bookmarks and searches, share resources with faculty, students and administrators from other institutions, automatically update courses with dynamic content feeds, and enable student contributions to course collections. www.blackboard.com Send all your news, products and features to the news hotdesk. smpluton@ntlworld.com |
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