There is currently a very large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack taking place on the internet which is degrading critical infrastructure. Two separate DDoS attacks on key providers of core internet services (e.g. DNS) today have caused widespread problems with many internet-based products and services. Some Canvas third-party services are currently unavailable. Edit: Services were restored […]

Educational Technology at Missouri University of Science and Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the TENTH ANNUAL Teaching and Learning Technology Conference (a.k.a. TLT X), scheduled for March 16-17, 2017. Interested presenters can download a copy of the Call for Presentation form at the TLT website or click one of the links below: Call […]

EdTech has scheduled a short Blackboard outage for the early-morning hours of 6:00AM—8:00AM on Friday, Aug. 26th. This outage should allow us to fix the persistent issues related to the Blackboard notification system. We regret any inconvenience this outage may represent. If you have questions please call us at (573) 341-4131 or email us at […]

If you are planning to use clickers in your FALL 2016 classes, please visit the clicker registration page (linked below) to register your classes by Friday, August 12. https://itweb.mst.edu/auth-cgi-bin/cgiwrap/clickers/request_clickers.pl   This information helps EdTech prepare the classrooms for clicker technology and also alerts the bookstore about the number of clickers to purchase. If you haven’t […]

Do you plan to use Tegrity lecture capture during FALL 2016? If so, then Educational Technology will need to gather some basic information from you so that we may prepare any room(s) in which you will be teaching with the appropriate technology. Please visit the link below and click the link for the appropriate survey […]

Educational Technology (EdTech) will be purging ALL recorded Summer 2016 course sessions stored in Tegrity on Monday, August 15th, 2016. Missouri S&T’s usage agreement with Tegrity limits us to only 500 hours of recordings per semester. This means we MUST remove all recordings from Tegrity at the end of each semester in order to ensure […]

First and last classes are the bookends that hold a semester together. How can we finish the semester with the same energy we had at the start? A few ideas: Source: www.facultyfocus.com At the beginning of the academic year we talked about how to make the first class have meaning. Here is an article  that […]

Am I alone in this kind of mental ritual? Or do all of us regularly forget what we’ve heard, read, or learned … in this case, about teaching and learning? Source: www.facultyfocus.com I fall into the trap that Dr. Weimer mentions. I take notes at conference sessions, loving the ideas that I have heard. I […]

Four quick ways to shift students’ attention from life’s distractions to your course content. Source: chronicle.com One of the more challenging aspects to teaching is to start each class in the right way. This means getting students to put aside the conversations that they might be having with friends in the class, or through texting, […]

We’re tired of sitting silently in the dark, listening to you read the PowerPoint aloud. Source: chroniclevitae.com Note: This essay was written by a group of students taught by Catherine Prendergast, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Too often we speak of what we think students want. This article reminds […]