Teaching with Blackboard
The following links provide information on better ways of teaching with Blackboard.
Please Click on the Topics for Detailed Instructions:
-Watch Short Videos of Faculty Teaching with Blackboard at American University
(these videos require Quicktime, best viewed with campus network connection)
-Eight Ways to Get Students More Engaged on Online Discussions
-Creating Discussion Forums for Online Discussions
-Creating and Managing Groups of Students around Topics
-Creating Assessments and Using the Gradebook
-Creating Learning Units for Sequential Learning
-Creating Active Learning in Online Instruction
-Using the Virtual Classroom for Realtime Chat
-Using Course Cartridges to Import Quizzes and Other Materials from Publishers
-Creating links to full-text journal articles with LinkMaker
-How to Remove Old Courses from your Blackboard Site
-Blackboard Frequently Asked Questions
-Blackboard - Getting Started Manual
-Blackboard - Complete Manual
Linkmaker
Linkmaker creates durable links between the University Library's electronic databases and faculty pages in Blackboard.
-JSTOR: Full-text of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
-Project Muse: Full-text articles from journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by university presses.
-CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online): A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
-ProQuest: International resource for business information. Indexes over 1000 titles; full-text is available for many articles.
-Encyclopedia Britannica: Online version of Encyclopedia Britannica
-eHRAF Collection of Ethnography: Full text ethnographic collections.
-Business & Company Resource Center: Includes company profiles, histories, and rankings; periodical abstracts and selected full-text, product information and industry overviews.
-ABI/INFORM ABI/INFORM
-ACM Digital Library
-Contemporary Authors/Contemporary Literary Criticism Select/Dictionary of Literary Biography
-Wall Street Transcript
For more information and help with Blackboard, please contact Jim McCabe with the Center for Teaching Excellence at ext.2553.
For help with Linkmaker, call the Reference and Instruction Librarian, Melissa Becher at ext.3263. |
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Office
Teaching & Learning Resources
Location
Hurst Hall, Room 11
Hours
Mon - Fri: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Contact
Phone: (202) 885-3904
Alt Phone:
(202) 885-3926
Email: blackboard@american.edu
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Related Links
-Blackboard Help Desk
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