Educational Technology will be hosting a series of Blackboard training sessions in August to help instructors get prepared in using Blackboard for Fall semester. All instructors are welcome to attend. All sessions will be held in Centennial Hall 105 (Technology Classroom) from 9 – 11 a.m. on the dates indicated below: Date: Monday, August 10 […]
Read More »Blackboard will be undergoing intersession maintenance Wednesday, August 12, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on August 13, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Blackboard will be unavailable during these maintenance windows. Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other issue at 573-341-HELP (4357).
Read More »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 […]
Read More »I recently had the opportunity to demonstrate a variety of technologies that EdTech supports to several members of the faculty on campus. I put together a few presentations and gave them a brief overview of what we had to offer, based on a request from the department chair. EdTech would be more than happy to […]
Read More »Ken Arvieux, database services assistant for Educational Technology and for Project Management within IT, died Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Ken started working for EdTech as a temporary employee in January 2008 and was hired on full-time in November 2008. Ken was a dedicated employee and a very hard worker for EdTech. He helped Gandalf Sidio […]
Read More »Blackboard will be unavailable this Sunday, June 28, from 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. The outage is due to maintenance being performed on network firewall software. Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other issue at 573-341-HELP (4357).
Read More »We here at EdTech Enterprises have recently been examining the possibility of using a “netbook” for some applications instead of heavier and more bulky standard laptop or tablet PCs. However, I recently came across a couple of good articles that look at some of advantages and disadvantages of netbooks in comparison to other technologies. Jeff […]
Read More »Blackboard will be unavailable between 5:30 pm and 10:00 pm on Friday, June 12, during the regularly scheduled maintenance window. System administrators will be applying patches during this outage. For more information, please contact the Help Desk at (573) 341-HELP.
Read More »EdTech has recently turned on the Blackboard Wizard in TurningPoint. This allows TurningPoint features to be compatible with Blackboard. Specifically, TurningPoint can now do the following tasks: Register clickers in Blackboard — students can now register their clickers in Blackboard instead of having to register their clickers at the Bookstore. Students simply need to login […]
Read More »Theo Gray, over at popsci.com, demonstrates how to use slices of bacon (prosciutto, actually) to cut through a steel pan. Very cool. He also explains the how and why this is possible. http://www.popsci.com/bacon And for those folks who object to the desecration of bacon in this fashion, he built a vegetarian version of the thermal […]
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