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Easing Student Fears about Publicly Posted Material

“If I post something publically on YouTube, what if my mistakes go viral and haunt me forever?”

Viral videos: the spread by-the-net short clips that usually involve something spectacular or someone doing something funny, foolish, or painful. Internet meme’s are born out of viral videos, and notable examples include “Star Wars Kid,” “Coke and Mentos,” “David [...]

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Embedding RSS Feeds in BlackBoard

Feeds (RSS or Atom) are one of my favorite features of the web these days. Who, what, why? Really Simple Syndication makes it incredibly easy to share the web in real time. As a publisher it means that your audience can subscribe to see updates as they roll out – imagine a newspaper that always carried the [...]

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