Teaching & Learning Conference
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Developers Day
Overview:
Blackboard’s learning platform has many new, flexible ways to enable customization, integration, and innovation of your own. Take this opportunity to network with your peers and learn how to customize your institution’s virtual learning experience with Blackboard openness and developer capabilities.
Schedule:
10am to 4pm (lunch included)
Monday 12th April 2010
Registration opens 9am Monday 12th April 2010
Welcome & Openness Roadmap
Learn about Blackboard’s new, open capabilities to customize & extend your Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1 platform to meet specific e-learning and administrative needs. Gain exposure to new product & industry concepts, standards, and trends.
Getting started with Blackboard Development
Get an overview of how to get started with your institution’s project including information on relevant documentation, developer tools, and required skill sets. Bring your laptop to download and install the relevant software. Then develop the Hello World Building Block as we walk through an example together.
Getting started with the Blackboard Developer Community
Hear from representatives of OSCELOT (the Open Source Community for Educational Learning Objects and Tools) on how to work with peer institutions to achieve common development goals. By working together with other institutions you may be able to develop solutions that may be of use to the wider education community.
Lunch
Developing a Interoperable Blackboard Proxy Tool
Investigate how to use open standards and web services to build Blackboard Proxy Tools. 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, developed using any programming language, and accessed from multiple learning environments.
Using the Blackboard Web Services to Implement SOA at Your Institution
Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1 has many new web services that will make it easier to integrate Blackboard with other campus systems. Find out how to use these new web services to your benefit as well as add your own web services to the management interface to centrally configure availability, access control, and logging.
Branding Blackboard to your Institution
Learn how to use CSS in combination with Blackboard Language Packs, Themes and Brands to apply a consistent institutional look and feel to your Virtual Learning Environment.
Wrap-up & Closing Remarks
Virtual developer environments? Web APIs? Better standards compliance? Or support for industry-transforming technologies? Provide feedback on this day’s activities and tell us what you need to help shape the future API and developer program roadmap.