Today I helped Angie Hammons teach Dr. Bih-Ru Lea’s class enter the Wimba Live Classroom virtual environment on Blackboard. Dr. Lea teaches a course about strategic enterprise management configurations. As part of the course, students are required to use a variety of different remote conferencing tools that allow them to collaborate in real time with […]
Read More »Dr. Trent Batson has another good article in Campus Technology this week asking if sending students to college is really necessary in today’s networked world. A friend told me recently that people are asking him why learners, in this age, need to ever attend college to become educated. This question undoubtedly has occurred to all […]
Read More »An incompatibility has been identified between Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and Blackboard Grade Center. Specifically, several people have reported being unable to save their changes in the Grade Center when using IE or have reported other strange Grade Center behavior when using IE as their web browser. Click HERE for information on how to to […]
Read More »EdTech and CERTI are hosting our first Blackboard Seminar Series for the semester on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 in the Carver / Turner Room of the Havener Center from noon to 1 p.m. We will be discussing the new Grade Center features of Blackboard along with any other issues that anyone wants to bring up […]
Read More »Dr. Northcut has asked me to teach Blackboard to the Tech Com 404 students (and herself) today. I think I have a decent outline of topics to cover, such as adding assignments and managing groups. Unfortunately, I don’t have finished documentation for some of what I will be covering. I will need to work quickly […]
Read More »On Tuesday, September 2, 2008, I taught my first actual section of English 160, Technical Communication. I was a bit nervous before hand (understandably so) but I’ve done a fair amount of public speaking and theatrical work in my day, so this wasn’t a huge deal. The biggest challenge is simply to get the students […]
Read More »Students and instructors have reported problems uploading files into Blackboard using the Firefox 3 web browser. Specifically, when attempting to upload an attachment to an assignment, a javascript error message pops up: "Please enter a valid file", even when the file is valid. This issue only appears to occur in Firefox 3 on a Windows […]
Read More »Thanks to the Web and the Internet (yes, they are two different–but related–entities), instructors can reach out and touch more students than ever before. However, one question must still be answered: "Does it make a difference?" According to Thomas L. Russell, Director Emeritus of the Office of Telecommunications at North Carolina State University, it doesn’t. […]
Read More »Join EdTech for a brownbag lunch demo of the new features in Office 2007. Bring your own lunch and we’ll provide drinks and dessert. What: Demo of the new features and tools in Office 2007 When: Friday, September 5, Noon – 1 p.m. Where: Missouri/Ozark room in the Havener Center What will be covered in […]
Read More »Missouri University of Science and Technology is now affiliated with The TLT Group, a non-profit organization that specializes in helping universities and other organizations with implementing technology in teaching and learning environments. The TLT Group is currently affiliated with about 140 institutions and agencies around the world. Much of the content they have developed has […]
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