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    if it's scheduled, it's planned--Blackboard, why did you plan this?

    « H E pedagogy & teaching :: email
    posted Thursday, 30 August 2007

    blackboard scheduled maintenance message

    Dear Blackboard,

    You’ve asked me to leave the worrying to you. Well, ok. I would like you to please worry for me about how to deal with “scheduled” maintenance that I was not informed of that occurred in the middle of the day in the middle of the first week of classes when I am trying to orient nervous new students.

    I would like you also to please worry for all my students who are completely stressed out because they are now behind in my class already—and we’re not even a full week into things—because they couldn’t post their required work to Blackboard because of the scheduled maintenance they weren’t informed of.

    Thank you.

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    1. Michelle left...
    Wednesday, 5 September 2007 2:07 pm

    This one isn't going to be left alone easily, now is it?? :) Must have really gotten to you..I thought it was quaint how they said "leave the worrying to us..."


    2. Nathan left...
    Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:20 pm

    You are under the mistaken impression that Blackboard is there to help you. The truth is the reverse: you are expected to serve Blackboard, to conform to his wishes, his eccentricities, his weird and counterintuitive proprietary demands. He owns educational technology and he owns you. He has patents and rights, and he has cornered the market, and he is gaining lobbying power every day. Get used to it.