Techno Blabber Game
Technology
phrases
Some are fake
Guess which!
Tomcat Servlet Container
A Java web server framework
Technology Without An
Interesting Name
TWAIN, Protocol to talk to image
scanners
Recursive Click Vector
Completely Bogus. Compliments of
Camie.
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber
Line
ADSL, broadband over telephone
Apache Rewrite Rule
A smart proxy that can rewrite
URLs in amazing ways
Attachment Packet Interface
ATAPI, Disk interface type
General Protection Fault
A Windows Error Message.
Commonly Blue Screen of Death
Extensible Firmware Interface
Next generation of computer BIOS.
Used in the new Intel Macs.
Extended File Interchange Mode
A total fake
Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extension
MIME, specification for attachments
in email
Acyclic Depth First Traversal
Not real at all
Personal Computer Memory
Card International Association
PCMCIA, adapter cards for laptops
Cross Site Socket Transfer
Entirely made up. Fiction.
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRC, a checksum to verify data
transmissions
Stratified Multi Pass Data Filter
A hoax, a sham, a flim flam
Distributed Component Object
Model
DCOM, a microsoft object
programming model
Remember…
We really sound like this to people
sometimes 
Blackboard Nuts & Bolts
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Blackboard
 Is
UAA’s course management system
 Servicing UAA since Fall 2000
 Runs on Solaris
 Is a suite of programs working together
 Reflects the banner SIS
Factoids
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1,000 of 4,000 courses every semester
700 faculty and 13,000 students using
4,000 unique visitors per day
150 people online at any given time
A person logs in every 2 seconds
7 GB per day transferred over the net
Data stored
 250 GB files
 25 GB database
Architecture:
A Helicopter
View
Snap
Shotting
Banner
Blackboard Dashboard
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Stats every 10 minutes
 http://bb.uaa.alaska.edu/dashboard
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Reports every week
 https://bb6.uaa.alaska.edu/uaa/
Conclusions
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Callcenter is doing a great job with Blackboard!
Emedia evolved training from introductory
material to advanced course design
Blackboard has been very stable in the last year
Have a statistic or reports idea? See Jim
Big hardware and software upgrades coming
this Summer