google apps for education: bboogle (ba-boogle) and beyond
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presentation by Northwestern University at Midwest Blackboard User's Group (SLATE) Meeting, August 18, 2010TRANSCRIPT
SLATE, August 18, 2010
Google Apps for Education, Bboogle (ba-boogle) and Beyond
Agenda
• Campus greetings: James Altman• Google Apps for Education and
Bboogle: Brian Nielsen• Break• Faculty Panel• NU IT Panel: Wendy Woodward,
Brian Nielsen, James Altman, Ron Blitz, Jeff Merrell, Keeley Soroki
What is Google Apps for Education (GAE)?
Introduced at Northwestern in 2007
Four key components: Gmail Google Docs Google Calendar Google Sites
The “@u” domain
No cost solution?
Google Docs
DocumentsFolders Presentations
Spreadsheets FormsAny file format to 1G
WordExcelPowerPoint
Why Bboogle?
Yesterday’s
Teaching
Model
Today’s
Model
For
Learning
What is Bboogle?
• A “connector” technology: Google Apps in Blackboard Learn
• An open source Building Block, available at http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/bboogle
• Developed at Northwestern for Blackboard 8 , 9, and 9.1
• As open source, we are encouraging other developers/instructional technologists to join us in contributing to the future of Bboogle
What Does Bboogle Offer?
1 2
3
Google Bookmarklet
4Single SignOn5
Faculty and Student Response
http://new-learning.northwestern.edu/bboogle
What does Bboogle Offer?
• Collaborative Writing• Group Presentations• Aggregating and managing data
collections• Calendar overlays• Collaborative multimedia• Hypertext – Google Sites
And, importantly …
MANAGES PERMISSIONS
AND
CREATES GROUPS
What should you expect?
• Students are engaged
• Instructors are pondering possible instructional activities/designs
• Many instructors need more assistance and support for Google Apps than for Bboogle
• Modeling other learning project scenarios will help promote adoption of Bboogle