Author: Malcolm Hays

CLC Software Request Process for Spring 2011 Now Open!

Posted by on October 20, 2010

 EdTech and IT are opening up the CLC software request process for instructors who need specific software packages installed in computer learning centers across campus. A brand new CLC software request web-based application is available at: https://itweb.mst.edu/auth-cgi-bin/cgiwrap/clcreq/index.pl This link will be available until close of business on Friday, November 5, 2010. Please enter all software […]

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Search function added to Blackboard 9 Resources web page

Posted by on October 14, 2010

  We recently had the opportunity to speak to some faculty about some of their concerns, specifically with respect to Blackboard. They commented that they sometimes had difficulty finding information on our Blackboard 9 Resources pages because there was no search function. Well, I am here to say that we have solved that problem! It […]

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Blackboard Seminar Series — Using Rubrics with Blackboard (Presentation)

Posted by on October 8, 2010

Barb Wilkins, Instructional Technologist for EdTech and a math teacher in her own right, presented on using rubrics for courses. One of the points Barb made was that students are already quite familiar with the use of rubrics for evaluating performance. For the past 10 years or so, teachers in K-12 have been trained to […]

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Blackboard Seminar Series – Using Rubrics with Blackboard

Posted by on October 6, 2010

EdTech and CERTI are co-sponsoring the October Blackboard Seminar Series, which will focus on using rubrics both inside and outside of a Blackboard course. Barb Wilkins, Instructional Technologist for EdTech, will be presenting. This event will take place in Centennial Hall Room 104 at Noon on Friday, October 8, 2010. What are rubrics? Why should […]

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MITC 2010: Technology Wrecking Ball

Posted by on October 4, 2010

Presenter: Bob Deneau Bob presented on three technologies that he is using in his district: Adobe Connect Pro, Skype, and Microsoft SharePoint. EdTech has some familiarity with all three of these technologies, though I am only personally familiar with Adobe Connect and SharePoint. I’ve never used Skype, though several other members of our group have […]

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MITC 2010: Adobe Fireworks — What is it? What can it do?

Posted by on October 4, 2010

Presenter: Mark Pennycuick I already use Fireworks CS4 for a number of projects for EdTech, but I thought I’d stop by this presentation just to see what is possible. I certainly don’t use Fireworks to its maximum potential (few people do as it is a fairly complex piece of software). I prefer Fireworks over Adobe […]

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MITC 2010: Creating and Distributing Audio/Video Podcasts

Posted by on October 4, 2010

Presenter: Joe Dimino This is a bit unusual because instead of the usual tablet PC that I normally use for liveblogging, I am using a netbook provided by the presenter. This is really my first experience with a netbook. The keyboard is definitely smaller, but not too bad, though I am tending to hit keys […]

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Missouri S&T Teaching and Learning Conference 2011

Posted by on September 27, 2010

Educational Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the Fourth Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, scheduled for March 10-11, 2011. Interested presenters can download a copy of the Call for Proposal form at our web site: edtech.mst.edu. This year we will be offering several tracks for presenters and participants: Teaching with Technology – Enhancing […]

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Faculty Learning Community — Student Perceptions of Technology

Posted by on September 10, 2010

Presented by: Matt Shaner, Manager of IT Relationship & Asset Management Data comes from EDUCAUSE. Two stereotypes of students/professors. One stereotype that students have about professors is that professors don’t like technology–Matt showed a video of a professor who destroys a laptop with liquid nitrogen and yells at students not to bring laptops to class. […]

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Blackboard Course Combine Issues over Weekend

Posted by on August 30, 2010

Last Friday (Aug 27), IT performed some updates on Blackboard. An unrelated follow-up process resulted in a misalignment between Blackboard’s student enrollments and the Registrar’s student enrollments. As a consequence, course combine requests were not properly handled, thus many courses were not showing up for numerous students and faculty. IT was able to find and […]

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