DevCon '09: Getting Started with Blackboard Building Blocks (Part I)
7/16/2009 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
National Harbor 10/11

Speakers
Rusty Klophaus, Product Manager, Blackboard

Learn the nuts & bolts of getting started with Blackboard Building Blocks including where to find relevant documentation and how to start and structure your project using an IDE.

Topics
Blackboard Led

DevCon '09: Getting Started with Blackboard Building Blocks (Part II)
7/16/2009 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
National Harbor 10/11

Speakers
Priyanka Gupta, Principal Software Engineer, Blackboard

Continue your investigation of Building Blocks with exposure to additional Blackboard APIs and instruction on how to leverage the Blackboard look & feel in your application.

Topics
Blackboard Led

DevCon '09: The Blackboard Learn Developers Roadmap
7/17/2009 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
National Harbor 10/11

Speakers
Bob Alcorn, Chief Architect, Blackboard

This session will present a roadmap for the technology innovations in upcoming releases resulting from Blackboard Learn, Release 9. From the new User Experience to Proxy Tools, Blackboard Sync, Web Services and the Learning Environment Connector API, see how our upcoming releases are defining a new Global e-Learning Architecture. Blackboard Learn's Chief Architect, Bob Alcorn will describe the technologies under development and how they fit together to create the most visionary, open, and extensible e-Learning platform on the market.

Topics
Blackboard Led

DevCon '09: Blackboard Learn Content Management APIs & Xythos Architecture
7/17/2009 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
National Harbor 10/11

Speakers
John Barone, Senior Architect, Blackboard

Learn how Xythos content solutions fit into your campus-wide architecture, and see how you can use APIs to import content, tag files with metadata, and support workflows within the Blackboard Learn Content Management Module.

Topics
Blackboard Led, Openness and Extending Blackboard Software

DevCon '09: Proxy Tools & Web Services (Part I)
7/17/2009 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
National Harbor 10/11

Speakers
George K. Kroner, Developer Relations Engineer, Blackboard
Lance Neumann, Senior Software Architect, Blackboard

Investigate how to build the newest type of Blackboard plugin technology - the Blackboard Proxy Tool. Based on the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 specification, Proxy Tools are interoperable learning applications that can be hosted externally to your Blackboard environment and accessed from multiple learning environments. See a working Proxy Tool running in the Google App Engine.

Topics
Openness and Extending Blackboard Software

DevCon '09: Debugging Building Blocks Issues
7/17/2009 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
National Harbor 10/11

Speakers
Kevin Borgeson, Services Consultant, Blackboard

Topics
Blackboard Led, Openness and Extending Blackboard Software

DevCon '09: User Interface Customization Techniques
7/17/2009 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
National Harbor 10/11

Speakers
Linas Laucys, Principal User Interface Design, Blackboard
Dan Rinzel, Senior Technical Product Designer, Blackboard

Learn how to customize the Blackboard Learn GUI with the Theme and Branding capabilities built into Release 9. See how you can edit the product's CSS files and use the tag libraries to render a highly-tailored user experience.

Topics
Blackboard Led, Openness and Extending Blackboard Software