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>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:11:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "S. Earp" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: #6887 CALL and Blackboard
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Marianne,

My guess is that the only products that would "work"
with Blackboard are those who have gone through the
Building Blocks process.  This is a Blackboard
corporate program whereby developers can get access to
the Blackboard API and develop back-end processes to
write to the gradebook. 

(This would be a different process from the
"cartridge" model, where publishers can create
pre-packaged content that can be uploaded into
Blackboard.  This is pretty limited for foreign
languagesat the moment - just ask TBob!) 

There's some information on the Blackboard corporate
site about the BUilding Blocks program, but I don't
see any language software developers listed.  There
are developers of other on-line assessment tools like
Brownestone's .EDU product (much better assessment
tools than the native Bb ones) who are creating
building blocks - but this is still for developing
content, not plugging in pre-existing materials.

I'll post this to the Bb Foreign Language Users' Group
listserv and see if anyone knows of more info.

Best,
Samantha

Samantha Earp
Director,Foreign Language Technology Services, Duke
University
Manager, Blackboard Foreign Language Users' Group
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> >Reply-To: "Marianne Crusius"
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> >From: "Marianne Crusius" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International
> Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: CALL and Blackboard
> >Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:41:00 -0400
> >Organization: Princeton University
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> One of our developers has the following question:
> 
> What commercial CALL products do you know that are
> supported by
> Blackboard?  I would like to know what CALL features
> can be incorporated
> with into BB to make use of BB's student tracking. 
> There are many
> products out there which do their own student
> registration and history.
> I need to know of some that do just the
> testin/practice and can connect
> to BB.
> 
> Can anybody comment on this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> marianne
> 
> 
>
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> 
> Marianne C. Crusius
> Manager, Language Resource Center
> 100 Jones Hall
> Princeton University
> tel: 609-258-2114
> fax: 609-258-1897


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