Technology Smackdown! Blackboard vs. Moodle

Ding! Ding! Ding! Blackboard is the winner by TKO!!!!
I have now worked with BB and Moodle from both sides; teacher and student.
Blackboard is the clear winner. Yes, there are many buttons on Blackboard but they are uniform throughout the entire class pages. Moodle is all over the place. From the student side, Moodle has so many places to get lost in. Your home screen has five thousand things to look at and it seems like the teacher side is the same.
My favorite feature of the Teacher BB is seeing the grading system. I really enjoy seeing how others/other programs are run. My school currently uses SIS, which I believe many other schools use. I think online grade books are great because I can work from home work school. BB also lays it out very clean and simple. I think that when you are working with people that have many different levels of technological understanding, the simpler the better. Moodle confuses me, and I think myself to be technologically proficient.
Go Team Blackboard!
Ashley

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! (Theme of the last few weeks)

This was awful... I have cried, laughed, screamed, and totally gave up this week. I have hated the last two weeks of homework with a passion. I would never, never, never, EVER use Camstudio or Camtasia again. I LOVED Jing! Jing was such an easy upload process. I hope that any future students do not have to deal with these programs again.
Here is the HD Video that took me two full days to upload!

Worst Experience Ever!

I thought I hated Evernote...I was wrong. I HATE CamStudio. You may have noticed that my blog is late... well that is because I have spent the last few nights trying to get this thing to upload. Tonight, after 4 hours, it finally uploaded!! I really hope that Camtasia works better because I am very frustrated.
On a side note, I really enjoyed working with Slide.com. It was easy and produced a nice result. I think it is a great way to show classroom pictures and videos.

Please click and wait to see the video on how to use slide.com. (You will have to wait a minute...sorry!)