WebCT - July 2006 Opening Remarks

WebCT – Welcome (Tuesday Night)

Tuesday night’s announcement that the ‘WebCT’ in WebCT will be replaced by BlackBoard seemed to shock some – though I don’t know why. The well-oiled – perhaps too slick for the audience - Mike and Matt tag team did their dog-and-pony show, and used “behind the red curtain” slides as a precursor to announcing their hot ideas. They also had a very lengthy statement of legalese that said all of these ideas were ideas and there was not a commitment by the company nor a timeline for any of these ideas to really take place. I believe they mentioned this had something to do with being traded publicly. They said they’d continue to support version 4, though most people I talked to still seemed set on making the conversion over to 6. Maybe they need more