Educational Technology will be hosting the first ever Missouri S&T Teaching and Learning Technology Conference in the Havener Center from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 25, 2008. All campus faculty and staff are welcome to attend. 
We believe it is important to our campus community to showcase the many ways in which faculty and staff use technology to enhance the learning experience for our students.
If you are interested in attending this conference, please visit the EdTech website for registration information. Registered attendees will be eligible to win a number of door prizes such as Dell all-in-one printers, $100 gift card to Amazon.com and 2GB USB flash drives. Registered attendees will also be able to join us for breakfast and lunch courtesy of TurningTechnologies, Blackboard, Wimba, and Sprint.
Professor Robert “Rocky” Keel will be the keynote speaker at 9 a.m. on April 25 in St. Pat’s A on the second floor of the Havener Center. Professor Keel teaches Sociology at UMSL and has been integrating web and Internet-based instruction into his courses since 1993.
Other presenters include a diverse array of Missouri S&T faculty and staff:
• Dr. Matt Insall – Mathematics and Statistics
• Dr. Irina Ivliyeva – Arts, Language, and Philosophy
• Dr. Audra Merfeld-Langston – Arts, Language, and Philosophy
• Dr. Doug Carroll – Interdisciplinary Engineering
• Dr. Dan Cernusca – Extended Learning
• Dr. Katie Grantham Lough – Interdisciplinary Engineering
• Dr. Klaus Woelk – Chemistry
• Dr. Richard Hall – Laboratory for Information Technology Evaluation (LITE)
• Amanda Piegza – Library
• Meg Brady – Educational Technology
• John Morrison – Blackboard
Vendors will be on hand to display their technologies and answer questions about the technologies we have employed here on campus.Several groups on campus such as CTEL/LITE, the Library, CERTI, and more will have poster presentations about their projects and activities.
If you have any questions about the conference, please contact the Educational Technology team at 341-4131 or edtech@mst.edu.
