The following was forward along to EdTech. We will be making our EdTech Collaboration Room (101 Centennial Hall) available on the dates and times below if possible. If the room is unavailable, we can make arrangements for another room and will send out an announcement to that effect. ========================================= Dear Colleague: There is still time […]

University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL) invites you to register for their Focus on Teaching and Technology Regional Conference on November 10-11, 2011. Scholars, educators, and practitioners from numerous universities share their technology innovations and teaching experiences. This year, they will offer two keynote presentations: Thursday, November 10:Tom Mills — Executive Director of Global […]

IT will be performing Blackboard maintenance on Sunday, September 18, 2011, starting at 12:00 a.m. Blackboard will be unavailable for 4 hours between midnight and 4 a.m. Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other IT issue at 573-341-HELP (4357) or submit an online Help Request at http://help.mst.edu.

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 […]

Blackboard Message, a tool available within the Communications Area of Blackboard, will be made available to all instructors starting on Friday, September 25, 2009. EdTech will be conducting a demonstration of the Blackboard Message functionality and best practices at noon on Friday, October 2, 2009, during the Cyberlearning Faculty Learning Community (FLC) meeting in Civil […]

IT will be upgrading Wimba Live Classroom tool inside Blackboard from version 3.3 to version 4.0 on Friday, September 25, starting at 5:30 p.m. Wimba Live Classrooms will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes during the upgrade process. Regular Blackboard services will still be available. Wimba  Live Classroom provides a live virtual classroom experience for […]

ShrinkWrapped blog had an interesting post the other day about Paradigm Shifts, particularly focusing on how new researchers have “synthesized a new science of learning that is already reshaping how we think about learning and creating opportunities to re-imagine the classroom for the 21st century.” Currently, most schools in this country offer education in the […]

On April 17, IT will perform a cleanup of all Blackboard courses older than two years as part of Missouri S&T’s two year Blackboard course retention policy. After April 17, any course content, enrollment, and entire courses themselves which are older than two years, will be purged from Blackboard and will not be recoverable. If […]

I found the video below and am including it on Educational Technology. The content of the video has been presented in other videos, but this is one of the most elegant packaging of the content I’ve seen. Plus the music has a decent beat to it. In any case, the point of the video is […]

We here at EdTech would like to wish the students, faculty, and staff at Missouri S&T a safe and joyous holiday season. With that in mind, check out the image below. One of our IT staff members put it together a few years ago. Since he now works for EdTech, we have hung it up […]