Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Rules and Tools: Does New Media Warrant New Standards?

In a recent Twitter post, a colleague complained about an academic tool he had to use for compliance training.
Blackboard was obviuosly designed by engineers who have never used tech more advanced than an overhead projector.
Having recently been engaged in discussions with my class, other faculty, and instructional technology folks about the "hinckyness" of Blackboard in its current iteration, naturally, I reposted this to my own Twitter stream.

My tweets automatically post to my Facebook page. As a result, a parallel discussion about the eLearning née Blackboard software ensued within my Facebook community. The thread largely took the form of academic commentary about Blackboard, eLearning, Moodle, and course management software in general. That is, until this.
Maybe it was invented by English teachers. I guess it's "obvious" Dave isn't one..
The author of the original post is, indeed, an assistant professor of emerging media and communications at my university. My first thought was to delete the critical post in order to spare "Dave" (and myself) any embarrassment resulting from the criticism. I had noticed the typo