This paper primarily presents our work of employing the BeagleBone Black board, a small but powerful single-board embedded computer, to enrich the teaching materials of embedded systems design for technology students. It introduces the hardware and software features of the BeagleBone Black. It then presents the learning outcomes, contents and lab organization. The comparison of the BBB with another commonly used single board computer Raspberry Pi is also discussed. Two developed Internet of Things (IoT) relevant capstone projects are reported. Our experiences demonstrate that BBB is an easy-to-use development board which can be employed by college-level students for developing complex embedded computing systems, especially targeting at network applications.