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ET@MO's lunch and learn series, "Teaching feedback with MoCAT and MyCourse"

MoCAT and MyCourse are online systems for collecting mid, and end-of-semester student feedback and can be used instead of paper evaluations for MU campus courses. Both systems allow MU instructors and departmental officials to create and send official teaching evaluations to students, as well as providing a place to receive and compile that data. This session is Friday, October 9 in 226 Heinkel Building from 12:00 - 1:00. No RSVP required.

ET@MO recognizes its award recipients

ET@MO congratulates recipients of the 2009 - 2010 Excellence in Teaching with Technology awards. Recipients are members of the MU community who have demonstrated excellence in using technology to improve teaching and learning. The recipients are Dale Musser from Computer Science, Oscar Chavez from Learning, Teaching, & Curriculum, Linda Esser from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, Keith Politte from the Reynolds Journalism Institute, and Emily Friedman from English.

Lecture Capture with Tegrity software now available

Tegrity is a web-based software that captures the screen and the instructor audio. Beginning this fall semester, MU instructors can access Tegrity and record lectures through their Blackboard course sites. Mizzou-specific help pages and documentation are available.

7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation

Collaborative annotation tools expand the concept of social bookmarking by allowing users not only to share bookmarks but also to digitally annotate web pages. Rather than simply pointing to particular web pages, collaborative annotation lets users highlight specific content on a web page and add a note explaining their thoughts or pointing to additional resources. Students who use these tools for academic research can, over time, build a collection of their own studies and observations in much the same way generations of students have saved texts with dog-eared pages, highlighted passages, scribbled comments, and sticky notes. The activity of adding reflections as marginalia can move students from being passive consumers of information to active readers engaged in scholarly discussions. 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

Open-Source Materials and On-Demand Publishing at Mizzou; Brown Bag Lunch Series
Imagine printing a full-color book in less time than it takes to walk across campus? At this month's Brown Bag Lunch Series, find out how anyone can publish their own book in less than 5 minutes! Open-source materials are gaining ground in the academic field and at Mizzou. What does open-source mean and how can you both contribute to, and utilize them in your field of study? Learn about MoSpace, print on demand, and other new innovations at this month's Brown Bag Lunch Series, sponsored by ET@MO, MU Libraries, Mizzou Media, and University Bookstore. Bring your lunch and learn a bunch! The session is October 20, 2009 from noon to 1:00 in the University Bookstore Conference Room. No RSVP required.

Posting Lectures Online: Tales from the Front Lines by Professors and Students
"Lecture Capture" is a relatively new technology that captures whatever is being projected in a classroom (ie PowerPoint, notes, the internet, etc) as well as the professor’s voice. These lectures can then easily be made available online (via a secure server) for students to review after class. Several MU professors piloted this technology during the Spring semester of 2009 and will be presenting what they learned from the process. Student feedback about "lecture capture" will be shared at this event and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. This session is October 20, 2009 from 3:00-4:30 in the new Student Center's Chamber's Auditorium (second floor). No RSVP required.

EDUCATION NEWS

College Enrollments Will Be More Diverse Over Next Decade, Report Says
The student body on American college campuses will continue to become more racially diverse, older, and more female over the next decade, according to new projections from the U.S. Department of Education. The numbers behind those trends are contained in the latest edition of the department's annual report, "Projections of Education Statistics to 2018," released by the department's National Center for Education Statistics.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Introducing the new Windows phone
Microsoft recently announced Windows Phone which use Windows Mobile 6.5. As well as the new version of software it also provides access to the new MyPhone service and the Windows Mobile Marketplace with 246 applications available.