The Educational Technology group (at least the “Ed” side consisting of Meg Brady, Angie Hammons, Julie Phelps, Barb Wilkins, and Malcolm Hays) are traveling to the 8th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference in Chicago on March 28-29, 2001. This conference is primarily about blended learning strategies. Over the next few days, we hope to bring you […]
Read More »Dr. Katie Grantham leverages YouTube to teach her students about ethnographic data collection and focus groups in her risk management and new product development courses.
Read More »Registration for the Teaching and Learning Technology Conference 2011 on March 10 and 11, 2011 is now OPEN! Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eric Mazur — Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and author of Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual. Web-based registration is now available at: http://edtech.mst.edu/events/tltconference2011/registration.html If you have already registered with […]
Read More »One of our student workers has created the following Prezi presentation to introduce students to Blackboard on our campus. This past semester, he gave this presentation to all incoming freshman as part of their orientation to Missouri S&T. We in EdTech are very proud of the hard work and effort he has put into creating […]
Read More »Here is an interesting video that shows 1000 years of European political history in a little over 5 minutes. You can easily see the ebb and flow of empires throughout the ages. Unfortunately, it does not have a timeline on the screen so it is a little tricky to see exactly when certain events happened. […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »For your education — I found a link to a video on fluorine, the most reactive element in the entire periodic table. This stuff is extremely dangerous by itself, but it exists all around us bound up in molecules such as tin fluoride and sodium fluoride. Fluoride compounds are found in our toothpaste and water […]
Read More »Apparently Google/YouTube has created a feature called “Search Stories” that allow you to create a short video based on your search terms. Julie Phelps, one of our Instructional Technologists, has created the following Search Story using terms related to Missouri S&T Educational Technology. Enjoy!
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