The third presentation of the morning is “Teaching Blended Courses: Ensuring Success by Avoiding Pitfalls”, presented by Barbara Petzall of Maryville University. According to the program blurb, this session will identify problem areas that instructors may encounter when designing blended classes.
Read More »My second session for the morning is No-Doze PowerPoint–Tips and Tricks, presented by Andrea Compton of St. Charles Community College. I guess the idea is to provide ideas on how to make PowerPoint presentations more interesting through interactivity and storytelling. Dr. Klaus Woelk at Missouri S&T is pretty good about this. He likes to introduce […]
Read More »I will be starting today’s events with “Effective and Practical Uses of eTextbooks“, presented by Roger Von Holzen from Northwest Missouri State University. Roger is the director of the educational technology office for Northwest Missouri State University. Northwest has a very strong technology presence on campus and in the textbook rental arena. Students are charged […]
Read More »The second session for the day is “Mastering Oral Foreign Language Proficiencies with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Pedagogical Implications” presented by S&T’s own Dr. Irina Ivliyeva, who teaches Russian. Presentation Outline: Subject background; students and classes; FL proficiencies CALL and evolving technologies Classroom activities and information management Evaluation and assessment Teaching methods: historical perspectives
Read More »I’m in St. Louis for the Focus on Teaching & Technology (FoTT) conference, put on by the Center for Teaching and Learning at UMSL. Between today (Oct 15) and tomorrow (Oct 16), I hope to blog about several of the sessions I plan on attending. My first session today will be on “Fundamentals in Designing […]
Read More »MOREnet, which provides core network services to Missouri S&T and other campuses, will be performing maintenance on UMSL’s network from midnight to 1 a.m. on Sunday, October 18, 2009. As a result, Blackboard at Missouri S&T will be unavailable during the maintenance window. Other IT services will still be available. Please call the Help Desk […]
Read More »EdTech and IT are opening up the CLC software request process for faculty who need specific software packages installed in computer learning centers across campus. All software requests should be submitted to IT for processing no later than close of business on October 30, 2009. Software currently available in each of the CLCs on campus […]
Read More »Blackboard has a number of options for enabling guest access to enable access to a course to individuals who are not currently enrolled in a course. It is also possible to limit guest access to specific areas or tools within a course. By default, guest access to Blackboard courses is disabled. IT has recently performed […]
Read More »Educational Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the Third Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, scheduled for March 11-12, 2010. Interested presenters can download a copy of the Call for Proposal form at our web site: edtech.mst.edu. This year’s theme will be Cyberlearning. Proposals will be accepted until November 20, 2009. The conference schedule […]
Read More »EdTech is a little late to the game, but we finally set up a YouTube account for our group. Although we have access to other ways of posting videos, I figured YouTube has some versatility that our other methods don’t have. However, the quality of our videos has diminished somewhat. Compare the video below to […]
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