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Bud Deihl and I will be presenting at BbWorld09 Wednesday. Our presentation is "Weaving the Social Web into Learning: Using Blackboard as a Learning Portal". We hope to start a conversation about venturing outside the "walled garden" of learning management systems to use the power of networked learning in college classes.



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We live in a wired world. You easily move from the physical to the virtual every time you use email for asynchronous communication, and our students enter campus armed with cellphones, Facebook accounts, and virtual
friends. This suggests that new skills
are needed to effectively teach the modern student.

In 1999, Palloff and Pratt published Building Learning Communities in Cyberspa

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