Blackboard World 2011


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So, we crashed Blackboard World. Sort of. We really just had a small event in a small lounge across the hallway called the VBar. We invited lots of folks from the conference to come visit us between sessions and we ended up having over 200 people crowd into the VBar to visit Instructure.

We gave out t-shirts and served food and drinks to all the great folks from educational institutions that were there for the conference.

One thing we were surprised about was how interested Blackboard employees were in our event. We didn’t let them in at first but towards the end we sort of opened it up to them.

bbworld11 Everyone looked great at our event.
We met a bunch of people from the design and experience team at Blackboard. Lots of them have spent many hours on the Canvas demo site the last few months, so it was fun to finally meet them in person.

About halfway through the event Michael Chasen came by to see if he could get in. One of our engineers, Ryan, ended up talking with him for a while. Michael said he liked our flame thrower video, but didn't understand what the 9.meh shirt meant.

bbworld11_1 This guys badge had tons of ribbons on it.
Darth Vader and Chewbacca were also there. They did a really awful skit – but we all had fun with it. We gave away an iPad 2 and a couple of high-end lightsabers. Ironically, one of the lightsaber winners works for Blackboard. I can only hope that The Source will be with her now.

So we appreciate Blackboard for being a good sport about us riding on their coattails. It was a great opportunity to meet up with so many folks from the industry. Thanks everyone for coming.

Maybe Blackboard will come crash our conference coming up in August!

Keep learning,

-josh

For those that missed out, here are all the designs (click to see bigger version) your_lms_thumb EOLd_thumb 9_meh_thumb omg_becky_thumb rebel_alliance_thumb you_havent_heard_of_it_thumb


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