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  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 538
  
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• Shortcut Annoyance

  
  Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4 — Authority: 115
  A few weeks ago, we had a discussion with our clients about a rash of students submitting the wrong files for assignments. These files were all Windows shortcuts to the actual document. The instructors were unable to open the file. The students were unaware of the mistake. So confusion all around makes for unhappy ...
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• Introducting Jim Chalex

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 116
  As we kick off this new Assessment topic on the BlackboardBlog I thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself. My name is JimChalex; I’m the product manager for Blackboard Learn for Outcomes Assessment. Ipreviously worked at ANGEL Learning as a product manager where I wasresponsible for the assessment-related ...
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• Blended Learning Provides New Models for Engaging Students

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 116
  Last week over 1,500 K-12 educators gathered in Austin, TX for the Virtual School Symposium hosted by iNACOL . Though the event is branded for virtual schools, one of the most popular topics was blended learning – the intersection between face-to-face and online learning. We discovered that blended learning ...
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• The War On Kids

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 566
  I haven’t seen the documentary for which I am posting the trailer below. I have no idea whether it is well made, whether its specific claims are themselves well documented or whether its specific scenes are, themselves, fairly edited, by which I mean not edited out of context or for merely sensationalistic ...
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• This Small Oil Producer is Ripe for a Takeover… Here’s How to Profit

  
  Investment U — Authority: 534
  This Small Oil Producer is Ripe for a Takeover… Here’s How to Profit by Sheena Martin , Contributing Editor Friday, November 20, 2009 Takeovers are big news in the market at the moment. In fact, did you know that takeovers have the biggest one-day gain in stocks for any asset? As my colleague – and ...
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• LT Brush records lectures to play them to the student after class

  
  The Design blog — Authority: 652
  Chinese designer Lu Yin has come up with a rather strange concept to revolutionize the classroom learning. His concept is based on the duster (blackboard eraser) and the blackboard we used back in our school days. With classroom teaching going digital with time, the concept dubbed the LT Brush could find place in the ...
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• another term flies

  
  thomas leverett — Authority: 117
  As I sit here, we are heading into a Thanksgiving break, and then, another Christmas break, which is really quite long, and gives us a little time to breathe, as teachers who really only have this one season. But I also would like to reflect a little on trends in the field, and what is happening around me. First, I ...
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• As U.S. Refiners Recover, This Company Aims to Jump to the Next Level

  
  Investment U — Authority: 534
  As U.S. Refiners Recover, This Company Aims to Jump to the Next Level by Sheena Martin , Contributing Editor Even as U.S gas prices climb, petroleum traders still have no interest in buying right now. And why would they? The summer driving season is at an end. Consumers are still trying to save cash, ...
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• Quarterly Financial Tracker: Q3 CY 2009 SaaS Vendors Face Some Headwinds, On-Premise Still In The Tank

  
  A Software Insider's Point of View — Authority: 113
  Purchasing in Q3 reflected both economic downturn and summer doldrums.  While on-premise vendors continued massive double digit declines in year-over-year new license revenue, SaaS vendors faced some pressures in keeping up with tremendous growth.  However, long term economic outlook still favor SaaS players and ...
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• Blended Learning: Where Online And Face-To-Face Instruction Intersect For 21st Century Teaching And Learning – Full Report Released

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 140
  A day or two ago I posted an entry entitled Blackboard Report – Blended Learning: Where Online And Face-To-Face Instruction Intersect For 21st Century Teaching And Learning, which essentially advertized the release of the executive summary from this report. Well, a few minutes ago I saw this come through my ...
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• Meet The Boss Of Blackboard

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 437
  From a profile of Michael Chasen, CEO of Blackboard: I had just finished my first year of law school in 1996. Greg was developing the technology consulting practice at KPMG and offered me a job. I took a year’s leave of absence and thought I would save enough money to pay for the rest of law school. At the end of ...
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• Virtual Schools: Expanding Learning Opportunities

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 116
  Recently,I attended a luncheon honoring the success of Fairfax Public Schools (VA) inproviding a first-class education to their students – including theincorporation of technology in education. One of the district’s manyaccomplishments is the creation of a district virtual school to serve a diversestudent ...
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• Uploading your Captivate 4 Videos to BlackBoard

  
  Assistive Technology — Authority: 116
  While presenting Delivering e-Learning Assets in PDF Format at the DevLearn 09 Conference a question was raised as to how do you go about sharing your Captivate 4 projects on BlackBoard. Now that you can save your video projects as a PDF file it is easy to upload them to your BlackBoard course as a simple PDF ...
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• Blackboard Report – Blended Learning: Where Online And Face-To-Face Instruction Intersect For 21st Century Teaching And Learning

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 140
  I saw this item as I was checking the #vss2009 stream on Twitter.You can follow the link by click on the image or go to http://www.blackboard.com/resources/k12/Bb_K12_Summary_BlendedLearning.pdfI’ll be honest and say I haven’t read the executive summary yet, but I will be posting information about the report later ...
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• Teachers Sell Lesson Plans; Shockingly, Administrators Seek Rents

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 566
  Okay, so maybe my biases are showing. It’s a legitimate question under prevailing copyright law whether an employee’s work product is her own intellectual property or a work-for-hire owned by the employer. So when teachers begin marketing their lesson plans , it’s not entirely ludicrous for Robert N. Lowry, ...
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• Bottom-Up Science (miracles pop up everywhere in evolution fairytale)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Evolutionary philosophy is a bottom-up storytelling project: particles, planets, people. Naturalists (those who say nature is all there is) believe they can invent explanations that are free of miracles, but in practice, miracles pop up everywhere in their stories. This was satirized by Sidney Harris years ago in a ...
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• 2009 Outstanding NYC Private and Public Elementary Schools

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 429
  Congratulations to the NYC Private & Public Elementary School winners of the 2009 Blackboard Awards! The Blackboard Awards, from Manhattan Media, highlight and celebrate the outstanding achievement of schools, teachers, and principals in NYC. Here are the Elementary School winners (with a link to their Blackboard ...
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• American Refiners Have a Problem… And the Government is Making it Worse

  
  Investment U — Authority: 534
  American Refiners Have a Problem… And the Government is Making it Worse by Sheena Martin , Investment U Contributing Editor America’s refining companies are under severe financial pressure. As the recession has blanketed the markets, demand for petroleum products has collapsed, causing refiners to scale ...
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