Students use ipods replay classes in podcast.Tegrity, and 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. are making it possible for college students to watch and listen to class lectures on their ipods at any time and from any location. Through Tegrity Campus enterprise software and the Blackboard Learning System A widely used education system from Blackboard Inc., Washington, D.C. (www.blackboard.com). Part of the company's Blackboard Academic Suite, it includes course management, content authoring, collaborative discussions, virtual classrooms, as well as testing and grading. , recorded instruction from every class can now be automatically converted to enhanced podcasts An enhanced podcast is a podcast multimedia format that allows images to be displayed in time with audio. This can be an effective way to present information such as lectures with a powerpoint-like slide show. for students to review later. The Tegrity Campus enterprise software integrates with Blackboard, and includes a Blackboard Building Block, described and available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at http://www.blackboard.com/extend/b2/. Blackboard Building Blocks are third party applications which enable academic institutions to extend and customize their Blackboard application. The Tegrity Campus Blackboard Building Block enables institutions to automatically capture, store and index every class on campus for later replay by every student. The on-demand content is accessible through Blackboard on any computer, and is now available on ipods as well. Each podcast (iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player, and although podcasts are is automatically indexed and enhanced with instructor audio, slides and annotations from class, making it more engaging than audio-only podcasts. During class, instructors press one button to start and stop recording and the software automatically creates visualpodcasts broken down by chapter, that are automatically upgraded after class to the right place on the Tegrity Server. The Tegrity Campus Blackboard Building Block component uses information already available in the Blackboard Learning System to automatically catalogue the recordings by course. While listening to their podcasts, students can easily navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. to specific parts (chapters) of their class and get right to the information they need. Blackboard administrators and other stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. in the institution can use the Tegrity Campus governance component to track usage, observing how students take advantage of more instruction hours without burdening institution staff. www.blackboard.com |
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