by Christine Monnier | Feb 12, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development, Training
Y’all know mind maps are my thing but I have never formally offered workshops on this. This changes today! As you know, if you read Jenn Kelley’s emails (and of course you do!), I am offering a workshop on mind mapping on Wednesday, March 12, from 2 to 4,...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 11, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
What am I reading? This article from 404 Media (one of my favorite tech publication): A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which...
by Learning Tech Dev | Feb 4, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Featured, Training
Will you be our Ultra Valentine? Inspired by Christine Monnier’s “Do One Thing in Ultra” blog posts, try a few simple things to help you fall in love with the Ultra upgrade.Come when you can but allow at least 45 minutes to complete four activities of your choice and...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Professional Development
So you’ve taken the Ultra training and everything. But now, you need the proverbial kick in the pants to actually get going on converting your own courses. Or you haven’t really updated your NET / VCM / HYB courses in a while, and you also need a...
by Learning Tech Dev | Jan 23, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Featured, Training
If you like to work on your own, we’ve got great news: we have a new asynchronous online course to help you get started with Ultra! We’ve just added Converting Your Course to Blackboard Ultra to our collection of on demand trainings! You can choose to take...
by Learning Tech Dev | Jan 20, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Featured, Training
Are you ready to get into the “swing” of things? Hit a home run by taking one of our Ultra spring training sessions. We’ll be covering the fundamentals as well as some more advanced techniques! Check out our Double Header on February 7th for twice...
