Blendspace & a New Way to Create Assignments

Today I am going to be getting to Austin to attend the South by Southwest Education conference. I am going to be spending some of my time there with TES (more on them later). They recently purchased Blendspace which allows teacher to use a variety of resources to build digital lessons for their students such as the one I did above which I call "Predicting the Electoral College." You can go to Blendspace and build your own very easily.

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Exporting a Blackboard Test To Word

For those of you who want out of Blackboard (the Microsoft of platforms), one of the hardest things to move are tests. A quick way that may work in most cases is on the video above, but here and here are guaranteed ways to fully convert a Blackboard file to a Word document. Of course if you want to go the other way, here is a post on how to convert a Word document into a Blackboard test.

What Does the Internet Look Like?

The internet is really a series of buildings housing data on rows of servers. If you want to see what it looks like, watch the short video above on the inside of a server farm.

Blackboard Test Generators

If you use Blackboard as does my county, you can find a series of Blackboard test generators here and/or watch the video above. These examples make it much easier to change a word document into Blackboard file.

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