Missouri School of Journalism Professor Amy Simons shares an award-winning assignment she create called "Hold a Monthly Web Strategy Meeting," in which students analyze data and present strategies for growing a news website's traffic.
Students use VoiceThread to present their strategies asynchronously to peers, who respond in the roles of skeptical colleagues. VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia tool that allows people to leave comments using voice, text, audio files, or video.
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Asmaa Albadawi, M.A.T.
Areas of expertise include language arts and science education, educational pedagogy, learner engagement, classroom management, curriculum design/development, and instructional coaching.
Liz du Plessis, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Liz du Plessis is a Manager of Instructional Design for Missouri Online. She is committed to supporting faculty in the cultivation of equity-minded online learning experiences that support the needs of diverse students. She is proud to have nearly 20 years of experience teaching college History across modalities on a part-time basis and is adjunct faculty in the Department of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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