I think it may be useful to maintain some UK base (though at present
'Europe' rather means the Netherlands and Denmark, both of which are
predominantly English speakers) I presume as Bb is only available currently
in American the language of the site would be English, but I would expect
there to be enough cultural differences in for example teaching methods -
programmes/courses setup etc - implementation methods within institutions
and primary language - help docs won't necessarily be in English - that we
could get so big that it stops being a really helpful tool, especially as
Europe grows.
However I do think some contact would be useful, and I did ask Bas for
details of the Danish mailbase list he mentioned. As a linguist I'd be happy
to volunteer to monitor (if monitor is the word!) european activity and
report back to the UK.
I wonder if the solution my be to - using the top frame provided in Bb5 -
have European users access to a European site which had a UK course, a Dutch
course etc and gave us instructor access to our own adn student access to
others. Creating just one European course would I suspect rapidly spiral out
of control and we'd probably go back to putting our own stuff somewhere else
and using this list...
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Kate Boardman
Learning Technologies Team
IT Service
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
tel.: 0191 374 1502
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Neil
Ringan
Sent: 15 November 2000 16:58 PM
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Subject: Blackboard site
Hi All
At the meeting which we held in Huddersfield a few weeks ago it was agreed
that it would be useful to have a Blackboard "space" somewhere where we
could share documents, post messages in a discussion forum, etc to support
this mailbase list.
I offered to host such a site, and it is currently available on our
Blackboard server, but for reasons of potential access problems, and also
because I don't want this to be seen as a "Huddersfield thing" I contact
Blackboard to see if they would let us have some space on blackboard.com to
host the course.
The response which I got was that they had had similar requests from users
in other European countries and would rather create a European site which is
currently under development (hopefully by the end of this week).
I just thought I would see what everyone else thought as to whether we were
"European" or felt a "UK" site would be more appropriate - and I don't mean
that to be taken in any kind of xenophobic way !!!!
Any feedback via the list would be useful.
Neil
Dr Neil Ringan
Director, Learning Innovation Centre
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
phone : +44 1484 47 31 46
fax : +44 1484 47 21 46
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