I've had a chance to talk with IT about some of our Blackboard troubles. As we suspected, Blackboard tends to work best with earlier version of Firefox (2.0.0.16) (not version 3.0) and all versions of Internet Explorer. Safari's compatibility is best on versions 2 and 3, but it sounds like those that used it had no problems. We will give this one more try with our next assignment (the workshop), but we will also begin moving toward using our class wiki as an alternative. Frankly, this is a good excuse for you to become familiar with wiki platforms, especially given our discussion of networks and web 2.0 technologies in class on Friday (mind maps...not hamburger paragraphs). In short, try one more time when you receive details for submitting work for the next assignment AND get ready for a "using wikis" lesson to come.
For those of you who use Firefox and really aren't keen on having to switch to IE, fret not! Firefox offers an IE tab for download. In other words, if you suspect that a website may not be responding well to Firefox, you can right click on the link and select "open with IE tab" from the drop down menu. An IE tab will appear alongside any other Firefox tabs you already have open. If the notion of "tabs" is unknown to you, do a little reading about it online. It will change the way you surf the internet.
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