Introducing: Blackboard Week
It’s not often you get to dedicate an entire week’s worth of content to a piece of software.
HackCollege is getting to the point now where big companies are starting to care about what we have to say. Last week, Rob Fay from Blackboard got in touch with us and left a comment on a heated Blackboard post. It takes some big cojones to address someone critical of you on their own turf. Props to that. Seeing as how the topic of Blackboard and its shortcomings resonates with the student audience well, we’ve decided to dedicate an entire week to it.
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Rather than just rant until our fingers bleed, we are going to dedicate the next week of posts to Blackboard and what it can do better the next time around (if there is a next time around). We like to think we have some pretty good ideas when it comes to Web applications for students. We’re also inviting you, our trusted readers, to be critical of our ideas. Maybe together we can help Blackboard dig itself out of the hole it’s in.
Tune in next week for HackCollege’s Blackboard Week, where we will be fixing Blackboard one post at a time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kelly Sutton is a software engineer at blip.tv in New York City. During his days at Loyola Marymount University , he founded HackCollege. He earned degrees in film production and computer science (and took a fifth year). Kelly started HackCollege in August of 2006. While in school, Kelly was involved in Crimson Circle, a service organization at LMU; played on Laser Squad Bravo , the campus improv team; ran the underground media outlet, Fuck Yeah LMU ; and taught LMU's first Web video class and held odd jobs around campus throughout his tenure. Kelly started HackCollege in August of 2006. While in school, Kelly was involved in Crimson Circle, a service organization at LMU; played on Laser Squad Bravo , the campus improv team; ran the underground media outlet, Fuck Yeah LMU ; and taught LMU's first Web video class and held odd jobs around campus throughout his tenure. Kelly held some pretty awesome internships throughout college at Automatic Duck , Revision3 and blip.tv. He is quite the weird guy. He sold all of his possessions through his site, Cult of Less . The world apparently cared, along with the BBC, NBC Nightly News, CBC and Der Spiegel. Kelly is also a founder of LayerVault , a simple version control service for designers. Kelly has spoken at a few conferences including South by Southwest , 140conf and Trandmediale . Although he finds the word dirty, Kelly has consulted for many projects including TakePart , a subsidiary of Participant Media ( An Inconvenient Truth , The Cove , Syriana ) and Capture Your Flag . He has also published his very own guide to Berlin. Kelly is @ KellySutton on Twitter. Kelly can be reached at kelly@hackcollege.com
