Blackboard+Collaborate

=**[|Blackboard Collaborate]**=

__**Resources**__
[|Webinars and Events] [|White Papers] [|Recorded Demos] [|Collateral] [|Best Practices] [|In the News]

__**Strengths**__

 * 1) ======Offers a more collaborative, interactive learning experience that constantly evolves======
 * 2) ======Helps you create virtual classrooms======
 * 3) ======Offers exciting new approaches to peer-to-peer learning and instructor-led help while involving each student on an individual level======
 * 4) ======Helps deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning======
 * 5) ======Helps open up all-new aspects of real time, or anytime, learning to engage more students and improve outcomes======
 * 6) Provides a content-repository to access and share digital content.

__**Weaknesses**__

 * 1) Cost (after 30 days)
 * 2) Time-consuming to set-up
 * 3) More suitable for older student
 * 4) Implementation may take up to 3-6 months for adoption success depending on professional services provided.

__**Opportunities**__

 * 1) Web conferencing gives you the functionality you need to support a 21st century teaching and learning environment
 * 2) Educators and students can engage as if they were in a traditional classroom, with as good as, or even better, outcomes
 * 3) Presentations with audio and video narration
 * 4) Multi-way audio and video chat
 * 5) Public and private text chat
 * 6) Electronic whiteboard
 * 7) Polls, quizzes, and surveys
 * 8) Desktop sharing/application sharing
 * 9) Breakout rooms
 * 10) Full-featured archives
 * 11) Telephone access
 * 12) Accessibility features

__** Threats **__

 * Since Blackboard offers many resources for students such as creating/adding to wikis and blogs, certain things would have to be moderated, especially with younger students.

__** Ideas for the classroom **__

 * Fostering on-demand, informal communication from student-to-student and student-to-instructor.
 * Inviting guest experts to present real-time online lectures to students using a wide array of rich media.
 * Using a live online classroom to provide revision sessions for students needing extra help or optional assessment preparation sessions. Providing the link to the session archive for those who were unable to attend.
 * Offering peer-to-peer “coffee breaks” or optional study sessions for students to network and learn from each other’s experiences.
 * Create engaging assessments and interactive activities (i.e. online polling)