ET@MO Tips & Tricks Newsletter

Student-Generated Content for Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and YouTube

With the economic downturn and tightening budgets, the stakes in the build versus buy decision for educational technology have never seemed as high. As instructors start to engage more deeply in integrating new forms of social media production into their course assignments and assessments, are there good models of support that leverage tactical rather than enterprise hardware and third-party rather than homegrown or locally supported software? Attend this brown-bag seminar provided by the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) on Monday, April 6 from 11:45 am - 1:00 pm in 226 Heinkel Building.

Register now for the TeAchnology! Conference

The TeAchnology! Conference is Tuesday, April 21 in Memorial Union. This event offers concurrent sessions on how to effectively incorporate various campus-supported technologies into your teaching at Mizzou. The variety of topics will provide valuable information to MU instructors from all disciplines, and with any level of technological expertise. Instructors with minimal technology experience will especially benefit. Register now and view agenda!

Respect Your Students' Intellectual Property Rights

Remember, students own their papers, work, and contributions to your course. If you’d like to use a current student's work in subsequent semesters as an example, you must receive their permission. Download and use our permission forms for this purpose.

Six Things to Think About When Planning Web-Assisted Courses

The following tips represent basic guidelines of the issues and topics to keep in mind while preparing a course for online offering. You may also like to speak with an Instructional Design Specialist, which can be arranged by contacting instructionaldesign@missouri.edu.

7 Things You Should Know About Location-Aware Applications

Location-aware applications deliver online content to users based on their physical location. Various technologies employ GPS, cell phone infrastructure, or wireless access points to identify where electronic devices such as mobile phones or laptops are, and users can choose to share that information with location-aware applications. As mobile devices offer greater amounts of data about the environment through which we move, location-aware systems will become increasingly effective at predicting what users would like to know about in the geographical space around them, offering a layer of knowledge superimposed on the physical world that can be accessed for information and convenience. 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.