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Submit award nominations today!

Are you or a person you know using technology at MU to enhance the student learning environment or process? The annual Excellence in Teaching with Technology Awards recognize faculty, staff, graduate instructors and teaching assistants who use technologies effectively and demonstrate excellence in teaching. MU faculty, staff and students are eligible to submit nominations prior to March 31, 2008. Find out more, and submit nominations online.

Learn About Your New Blackboard Tools

Back by popular demand! We've added an additional demonstration session of new Blackboard tools: Wimba Voice Tools and Scholar. The session is Tuesday, Feb. 12 from 11:00 am-12:00 pm. To reserve a seat for this session e-mail etatmo@missouri.edu. Wimba Voice Tools are a suite of audio add-ins for various areas of Blackboard including Announcements, Discussion Board, Email, Content pages, and more! Go to a PDF of documentation on using Wimba Voice Tools. Blackboard Scholar is an academic, social-bookmarking tool integrated with Blackboard. Features include searching, tagging, and sharing bookmarks between users, easily incorporating collections of bookmarks into courses, and creating custom groups of bookmarks for each course. Go to an overview of the capabilities of Blackboard Scholar.

7 things you should know about Lulu

Lulu offers online access to the tools one needs to design, publish, and print original material. It allows content creators (such as faculty and students) to decide what gets published and in what form, making it possible to produce a publication inexpensively and much more quickly than with traditional publishing. Download the PDF of this full article. This information is provided by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About… series which provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices.

CAMPUS NEWS

Information Experience Laboratory Invited Lecture: Usability and You
Do you write content in any medium, create forms, write documentation, or design software or websites or e-learning courses? Then you own "product" usability. Find out why this should be a concern to you on March 6 at 3:00 pm in 234 Brady Commons. Dr. Carol Barnum is Director of the Usability Center at Southern Polytechnic State University, and author of award-winning book Usability Testing and Research. Barnum brings her wit and wisdom to the topic at hand with a mission to educate, enlighten, and transform the audience into usability advocates.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

The high cost of e-mail autocomplete
How many times have you sent an e-mail and, immediately after clicking send, realized it was delivered to the wrong person? An attorney for Eli Lilly intended to email information to a colleague regarding the pharmaceutical company's confidential negotiations with the government. Instead she sent the message to a NY Times reporter with the same last name. The reporter's "big scoop" included information about a $1 billion settlement. Read more

TECHNOLOGY TIP

Eight timesaving tips for Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office release
No matter what your computer experience, when you start using new versions of the software you most depend on, it can take some time to discover favorite new features and timesavers. So, think of this article as a shortcut to some great new shortcuts.