Deborah Everhart, Senior Architect, Blackboard Inc.
Deborah Everhart is a Sr. Architect at Blackboard, where she provides leadership in product strategy and development. Her responsibilities include researching, analyzing, and designing features and functionality for Blackboard products.
She teaches as an adjunct assistant professor in Georgetown University's Medieval Studies program. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Everhart has been using computers in the classroom since 1985. The Labyrinth, the medieval studies Website that she co-directs with Martin Irvine, was the first Web project at Georgetown University.
She served for six years as the Sr. Internet Development Coordinator in University Information Services at Georgetown University, where she acted as Internet2 Applications Representative, coordinated the University's Web development as Chair of the GUide Committee, and implemented and supported Blackboard.
Dr. Everhart has written numerous articles and presented papers and seminars on medieval literature, Web/database development, education technologies, and the future of online learning.
Greg Ritter, has been working with instructional technology since the early 90's, first as faculty in the English departments at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond, then in the Academic Technology program at Gallaudet University (the university for the Deaf and hard of hearing). Greg's been at Blackboard since 1999 and worked on Blackboard's consulting, business development, and product development teams.
O.K. I'll bite, I really don't know what I'm doing here. I'm trying to read the posts in an attempt to learn what Bb and the bloggers here think about Web 2.0 and what it is. However I am unable to see any of the hundreds of postings. I'm guessing it's because I never have posted anything so....
The idea behind the speakers bureau is to identify people within the Blackboard client base and within Blackboard who are knowledgable about Web 2.0 (and other topics) so that if people have questions about these areas they can reach out to an expert. One example would be to have one of the Speakers Bureau members present at a user group meeting, participate in a brown bag lunch session with an interested group, or be a guest speaker in a class.
I hope that helps explain things. I'm guessing that our Speakers Bureau mission isn't as clearly stated on the website as it needs to be :)
I stumbled across this board and was intrigued about the web 2.0 discussion. I know that you stated the web 2.0 speakers bureau was established for people with a Blackboard client base. However if one is a expert on web 2.0 and other relevant technologies would black board bring in outside speakers to do the training or have outside expert help work with qualified speakers so they could give informed lectures on the subject? Thanks for your post and I await your response
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Deborah Everhart, Senior Architect, Blackboard Inc.
Deborah Everhart is a Sr. Architect at Blackboard, where she provides leadership in product strategy and development. Her responsibilities include researching, analyzing, and designing features and functionality for Blackboard products.
She teaches as an adjunct assistant professor in Georgetown University's Medieval Studies program. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Everhart has been using computers in the classroom since 1985. The Labyrinth, the medieval studies Website that she co-directs with Martin Irvine, was the first Web project at Georgetown University.
She served for six years as the Sr. Internet Development Coordinator in University Information Services at Georgetown University, where she acted as Internet2 Applications Representative, coordinated the University's Web development as Chair of the GUide Committee, and implemented and supported Blackboard.
Dr. Everhart has written numerous articles and presented papers and seminars on medieval literature, Web/database development, education technologies, and the future of online learning.
Greg Ritter, Product Director, Blackboard Beyond Initiative
Greg Ritter, has been working with instructional technology since the early 90's, first as faculty in the English departments at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond, then in the Academic Technology program at Gallaudet University (the university for the Deaf and hard of hearing). Greg's been at Blackboard since 1999 and worked on Blackboard's consulting, business development, and product development teams.
O.K. I'll bite, I really don't know what I'm doing here. I'm trying to read the posts in an attempt to learn what Bb and the bloggers here think about Web 2.0 and what it is. However I am unable to see any of the hundreds of postings. I'm guessing it's because I never have posted anything so....
Hi Peter,
The idea behind the speakers bureau is to identify people within the Blackboard client base and within Blackboard who are knowledgable about Web 2.0 (and other topics) so that if people have questions about these areas they can reach out to an expert. One example would be to have one of the Speakers Bureau members present at a user group meeting, participate in a brown bag lunch session with an interested group, or be a guest speaker in a class.
I hope that helps explain things. I'm guessing that our Speakers Bureau mission isn't as clearly stated on the website as it needs to be :)
Jan
Hello Jan,
I stumbled across this board and was intrigued about the web 2.0 discussion. I know that you stated the web 2.0 speakers bureau was established for people with a Blackboard client base. However if one is a expert on web 2.0 and other relevant technologies would black board bring in outside speakers to do the training or have outside expert help work with qualified speakers so they could give informed lectures on the subject? Thanks for your post and I await your response
Jim Fleck