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Attend the Academic Transformation Spring Showcase

ET@MO cordially invites you to attend an Academic Transformation Spring Showcase featuring five faculty teams from around campus who are navigating the waters of academic transformation. Hear how they have designed and are implementing course redesign to affect change in their department. This session will inspire and motivate you to submit a proposal for our next series! Mark your calendar for: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Stotler II, Memorial Union.

Apply now for TeAchnology! 2008

ET@MO's popular TeAchnology! event is a week long, intensive workshop for faculty or graduate instructors with a primary teaching appointment to learn about and explore educational technology tools in a fully supported, hands-on learning environment. This year TeAchnology! is July 7 - July 11. Selected applicants will attend one of two tracks that are offered each morning, or each afternoon of the week. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 11. Learn more and apply online today!

7 things you should know about Google Apps

Google Apps is a suite of web-based programs and file storage that run in a web browser, offering a single point of entry for communication and productivity tools, a customizable start page, and Google sites for web page development. With Google Apps, sharing content is as simple as granting someone access, which facilitates collaboration, peer review of academic materials, and the collective generation of knowledge. 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

Design in the Virtual World
Read SyndicateMizzou's feature, "Designing in the Virtual World," which highlights the research of So-Yeon Yoon, Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies. Learn about how Yoon found herself drawn to the field of architecture and interior design, an area in which her creative impulse and interest in computers could merge, and how her current research applies technology—particularly virtual reality—to various interior design problems.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Research Has Chilling Effect on Hard Drive Encryption
Since you've encrypted the data on your laptop, it's safe even if your laptop is stolen, right? Wrong. Researchers at Princeton have demonstrated ways to hack your encrypted data using your own DRAMs against you. Read more.

Smart Campuses: Appealing to the Millennial Learner
Learn how to engage student attention and provide them with better tools for study and review. Technologists from Harrisburg Community College and Prince George Community College discuss how they are using SMART Technologies interactive whiteboards and pen displays to increase student retention, interest and performance. Hear their success stories and get ideas for using these technologies.