Archive for the ‘Classroom Technology’ Category
Attendance Tracking Scanners for UM Classrooms
The Class Attendance Guidelines Policy discusses the importance of attendance relative to learning. Instructors are asked to report cases of freshman students missing three or more class periods as part of the Freshman Attendance-Based Initiative (FABI) program. The Academic Support Center follows up on these cases to connect students with resources. Yet, taking attendance for large […]
Box Storage and Collaboration Service Goes Live
The Office of Information Technology (IT) is pleased to announce the availability of Box storage and collaboration service to University of Mississippi (UM) faculty, staff and students. As a member of Internet2, UM is able to take advantage of the Box storage service and special pricing offered through the Internet2 NET+ partnership program. The Net+ Box offering […]
Higher Education Meets eBay: An Online Marketplace for Course Notes
Instructors and students have been sharing course materials online for over fifteen years. In the early years of the Internet and web browsers, instructors posted course materials on a personal web page or a file transfer (ftp) site. In recent years, web-based learning management systems have replaced these personal course web pages. Products such as […]
Classroom Technology 2010
Classroom Technology has been on the move! This year, 6 new rooms were added in Old Chemistry, including one full multimedia classroom and 5 wall plate/projector classrooms. There were 4 classrooms added in the new Guyton Annex with lecterns, desktop computers and Extron controls. In connection with the North Residential College, two new full lectern classrooms were also […]