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Hello, my name is Miles McGeehan and I'm a Science teacher
at the Vail Ski & Snow Academy.
Here at the Ski & Snow Academy, CourseSites provides a seamless experience for our
busy students, who are traveling to competitions all over the world, to keep up and meet deadlines
. Students are decisively more organized with the To Do, the Calendar, and the Past Due
alert reminders on each course home page. I love the new Needs Attention module that
reminds me of the work that needs to be graded
. I especially appreciate the ease of incorporating
YouTube mashups as a hook for the start of
each lesson. Discussion boards, Blogs and digital Journals
provide a variety of unique communication mechanisms that enable every student to have
a voice in the classroom from anywhere in the world. I'm also very excited
to begin building differentiated lessons through the simple design of content webpages through
Blackboard's partner SoftChalk. CourseSites' support team
responds immediately to any of my needs, which has
been very impressive . A colleague recently asked, "What does Blackboard
replace in the face-to-face classroom?" My response was, "It's not what it replaces,
but the imaginiative opportunities that it invents."