Tonight at midnight Fordham’s Blackboard Learning Management System will be upgraded to version 8.
What does this mean?
First of all, let me reassure you that everything you have previously uploaded to Blackboard will still be there on Monday morning! You may continue using Blackboard this afternoon and this evening, however, any work that you do not save before the 12am deadline will lost.
New features and Enhancements fall into the following catagories:
Grade Center
Self and Peer Assessment Building Block
Safe Assign
Blackboard Content System Enhancements
Scholar Building Block for Basic
Most people can read faster than people talk, so PowerPoint slides that are full of bullets and text distract from what the presenter has to say. Reading the text off the slides is also a sure-fire way to lose the attention of your audience. These are just some of the things to watch out for when putting together a presentation.
What about the things you should do?
That’s a good question! There are many ways to make presentations more engaging. Take a look at some of the ideas on ways to avoid the pitfalls of using PowerPoint and create more stimulating presentations.
