Training & Documentation
LMS accessibility training
This small Blackboard classroom, used for a face-to-face accessibility training course, demonstrates how faculty can make their Blackboard classes more accessible.
Post-training support
Since I’m an experienced face-to-face trainer, I was tapped to develop content for the face-to-face training sessions when the University upgraded its in-house LMS. This web page, which includes a few simple Flash objects, is one example of the post-training support I made available to trainees.
Blackboard manual
One of my former employers strongly believed in giving printed instruction manuals to faculty. I served as co-author on our Blackboard training manual. The manual incorporated Quality Matters principles. A few pages from the manual are below.
Just-in-time Blackboard training
In 2007 when Blackboard 8 released the vastly improved (and vastly different) Grade Center, my college had to train several hundred faculty in a short time span.
Setting up your Blackboard class
Several basic Blackboard tasks are covered in this just-in-time tutorial.
Sharing with Google
Google helps you share content with your students using Google Groups and Google+ Communities. Which is better? This presentation explores the differences.
Post to Twitter using IFTTT and GMail
This short tutorial was inspired by a professor with a new cell phone who wanted an easy way to share articles with students using his Blackboard class. The first part, shown here, describes how to post to Twitter using Gmail using IFTTT. The second part, which is unfortunately not available, teaches how to set up a Twitter feed in Blackboard.
Automating closed captions
Watch my Mac read a spreadsheet, and my PC enter the numbers into Storyline!
ClipMate, closed captions, and Storyline
See how I used ClipMate to help relieve some of the drudgery involved in creating closed captions in Storyline.
Active learning with PowerPoint
Easily add active learning slides to your PowerPoint deck.