Thing 19 - Blackboard and Wikis

I've had two different experiences with Blackboard. The first was while I was in library school during an online course. I found it to be a wonderful tool to organize and manage course objectives, assignments, and discussions. Blackboard created a virtual classroom environment. My other experience with Blackboard was this year. Unfortunately the experience wasn't a positive one for me. I think mostly it is because I didn't feel adequately trained. I'm really not quite sure how I would use this in my library. I know that it was meant to be a place for us to post lessons and so the intent was good, but it hasn't been a resource that I've used. Maybe a wiki would be a better way for us to gather links, resources, lesson ideas, etc. I think mostly I wish that we would figure out the best way to gather all of the great ideas, resources, lessons, that we as a group can come up with.