How to Teach a Synchronous Class

I have been teaching online students for the past fifteen years and as the leader of an online school I also am in charge of teaching our prospective teachers. To that end the video above is what I believe are the ways to engage virtual learners. Honestly it is not much different than teaching in the brick and mortar classroom, especially as more schools are going one on one. But watch the short video to see how to do that with technology tools.

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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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