Accounting & Finance eLearning Newsletter

Features

• Have you seen the Treasury Dealing Room Video?
• MUSO Upgrade - MUSO now called Blackboard
• Sneak peek at the Blackboard Built View
• The Ultimate Conference Toolkit
• The 2007 Annals of Improbable Research - Ig Noble Prizes

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• Presentation Remote Control Trial
• BEST Tips - verifying and overiding results
• Doing exams at home
• Disney challenges university research report
• How Mickey Mouse changed US copyright

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• eLearning forum (Plagarism software video on the intranet)
• Pre semester MUSO Housekeeping
• A site for researchers
• A collection of things my RSS reader found
  • A clever update of the Bayeaux Tapestry
  • How to a dial telephone (1927)
  • British School uniforms through the ages.
• Semester 2 Faculty Teaching & Learning Timetable

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• Recording lectures with MULO
  • MULO How To guide
• YouTube - The worlds largest online video sharing site.
• More Top inventions from Canada and Australia

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• A bit about Assignments in MUSO and how to mark them.
• Skype (using your computer as a phone) and how to use it safely
  • How to use Skype (Compilation of Skype Help files)
  • Skype and Security
• Popular Mechanics Top Inventions of the Last 50 Years and the Beer Throwing Fridge video

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• MUSO Housekeeping
  • How to guide - Add a staff member to MUSO
• Information Behaviors of Academic Researchers in the Internet Era
• The real history of Saint Valentines Day

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• eLearning Newslettter Podcast coming soon
• Quiz Reports.
  • MUSO Quiz Reports overview
• Video and Podcasts at Maquarie University (MQtv) and Radio Monash
• Bad Academic Writing contest

• Activities round up
• Using Quizzes to provide feedback.
  • MUSO Quiz feedback overview
• Del.icio.us - making an internet accessible list of you favourite websites. Good for conferences.
• Some research humour

• Things you can do with MUSO Quizzes
• Wikis (lots of good links)
• 2006 Ig Noble prize for Improbable Research

• New Bus Eco eLearning & Technology in Education Forum
• Linking MUSO to Windows using WebDAV
  • How to Guide - Linking Windows to MUSO using WebDAV
• What is MySpace - Social networking Software
• Quatloos - Cyber Museum of Financial Scams and Frauds

• Trading Simulation in Dealing Room
• Using Allocate+ information with MUSO
• Getting Podcasts using iTunes
  • How to guide - Subscribing to iTunes
• iPods more popular than beer & the Universal Grade Change Form

July 2006

• Hiding and removing links to files
• Blog home delivery using RSS (Pluck)
  • Link to information on downloading Pluck
  • How to guide - Subscribing to a Blog using Pluck
• Newtons Three Laws of graduation
• Copyright for course handbooks

June 2006

• Innovation fund recipients
  • Dean Hanlon - Automated Marking & Feedback
  • Leonid Churliov & Carla Wilkinson - Hosted MySAP to provide authentic activites.
• Podcasting
• How to download audio files

May 2006

• Loading the correct Javascript for MUSO
• Blogs