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Comparing Blackboard & Personal Web Pages: Pros and Cons for Ease of Use and Flexibility

Explore the advantages and drawbacks of Blackboard and personal web pages in terms of ease of use, flexibility, and uploading capabilities such as images and scripts. Learn about accessing, posting info, organizing material, text formatting, file location, external links, file uploading, image display, and utilizing HTML codes. Discover techniques to add and manage images on Blackboard effectively.

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Comparing Blackboard & Personal Web Pages: Pros and Cons for Ease of Use and Flexibility

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  1. Compare and Contrast : Blackboard& a Personal Web Page You’ll find this presentation (and another) here : www3.ltu.edu/~s_schneider/howto/faculty.htm

  2. Compare and Contrast : Blackboard& a Personal Web Page What are are the pros and cons of each, in terms of ease of use, flexibility, ability to load images/scripts/java/etc.

  3. Accessing the Site • Personal Web page (WEB) = 24/7 • Open access – constant address • BlackBoard (BB) = some down time • Guest account if not in the class • Look at the new Preview button on the login screen!

  4. Posting Info on the Web • BlackBoard (BB) = Very Easy!! • Just “point and click” to upload • Personal Web page (WEB) = Harder! • Need web editor .. And server! • (We have one for faculty .. www3.ltu.edu)

  5. Organization of Material • BB – built in • common interface • WEB – you have to create it • But more flexible? Also more work!

  6. Fancy Text Formatting • Both can do this! • WEB – you are probably already doing it • BB – you can add some simple tags • See “Adding HTML to Blackboard” here : • www3.ltu.edu/~s_schneider/howto/bbtags.htm

  7. Location of Files • WEB – static • Always same place - constant • BB – changes each term • Can be archived • But, what about “image links” we explore later?

  8. Links to other web pages • BOTH • BB – easy to add • Also get a “world” icon • WEB – you are already doing this • Could couple WEB with BB? • Store things on WEB and call from BB • Best of “static” vs “changing” conflict

  9. Uploading files? • BB – electronic drop box!! • WEB – much harder to do .. • Also, we now have Outlook Express …

  10. Email?? • BB – this will probably be the model!! • We will have access to our classe lists here • Not sure how Banner comes into play? • Limitation to one email address? • WEB (no access to student addresses) • Outlook Express – maintain all students as contacts … Unlikely!

  11. Displaying images within BB? • Can link to external images • Can display external images • Must add a bit of HTML code • Can link to “LOCAL” images! • Use a “hidden” folder • Can display “LOCAL” images Let’s try adding images ….

  12. Open your BB page • Then go to the CONTROL PANEL down on the lower left – that’s where we make the changes to the BB site.

  13. Making folder for images • Click on the COURSE Documents to add a new folder for our images

  14. Add folder and name it • Click on the Add Folder button • Name it something (like “Images”)

  15. “Hidden” folder! • Here’s a neat trick .. Make it a hidden folder (seen by you, not by students) • (Note: You might want to make the image folder available to the students also – the following techniques will work either way.)

  16. Add a “document” to Images • Double-click on the folder name (to enter it) • Click on “Add Item” to add in an image as a “document”

  17. Adding an image • Browse your local machine to upload the image • Create a “link” to the image • Note : You could also display it directly! .. But we will be happy just with the link

  18. Find “link” to the image • Right click on image link • We want to copy it to the “clipboard” in IE in NETSCAPE

  19. Link copied to memory • Could paste it into Notepad temporarily • Note, we are seeing the “course” info in the string, but this is on the Blackboard server – we don’t need “our own” server!!

  20. New folder/document • Make a new folder and document (this we will show the students) • We’ll put a link to the image, as well as the image itself!

  21. Add some HTML code !

  22. Link vs embedded Image • Link uses “anchor” tag – you click to see it <A HREF="http://mypage.com/pink.JPG">Link</A> • “inline” image uses IMG tag <IMG SRC="http://mypage.com/pink.JPG">

  23. Mixture of text and html • Link uses “anchor” tag • “inline” image uses IMG tag • Both of these are “external” images!

  24. What about “Local” images? • Add that link we just copied from within Blackboard!

  25. Seeing the rough output • Gives link (opens image into window) – or shows the image there • Doesn’t matter if it is external or internal – both work! • But, this format is not as “pretty” – compare sideways?

  26. Use “Tables” to format

  27. Tables look better?

  28. Other things? • PERL/JAVA/PHP • BB – not right now – future? • Could call up other pages with it though! • WEB – if you can host it, you can run it • Maybe BB gives us confidence to use Personal Web pages more and more .. Can couple the two for a powerful combination

  29. Conclusions? • BB = very easy to use – a little limited • WEB = harder to use – more flexible • At the very least, BB + WEB would be more powerful than either alone

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