informationweek.com - There are serious medical conversations going on every day on Twitter, squeezed in between the celebrity news and the millions posting what they had for lunch. To find them, just search for #FOAMed.The hashtag refers to the concept of Free Open Access Meducation (medical education), or FOAM , first promoted at the 2012 International Conference on Emergency Medicine in a lecture by Mike Cadogan, an emergency medicine physician, educator and digital media enthusiast from Australia.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
23 Great Sources For Free Educational Videos Online
Students love to watch and learn. Why not showcase some of the best free educational videos and their repositories then?
Online Education Programs | Online and Distance Learning
Find distance education programs or online programs in adult education, primary, secondary, TESOL, or other online education programs.
Read more at: http://onlineanddistancelearning.com/online-education-programs
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Autoplay Might Be The Problem With Facebook's Video Ads
forbes.com - It looks like Facebook Facebook is experimenting with autoplay on videos in the news feed. This will work better in some mobile environments than others of course: but the real problem could be what it portends. For we already know that they intend to introduce video ads to the service. And it’s possible that there will be considerable consumer resistance to those being on autoplay.The basic story is here :
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Discovering That Your 18-Month-Old Is Using an iPad in Pre-School
How to react?
On a recent summer day in Nashville, Kara Teising opened her Facebook page for a lunchtime scroll through her timeline when she discovered a photo posted by her son’s daycare: an image of her 18-month-old son surrounded by other toddlers, their chubby faces glued to a brightly colored, animated screen of an iPad. The accompanying post read, “We are taking a BYTE out of our new Apple iPads! We are hungry for learning!” Teising was shocked, unaware that the school, which serves children from six weeks old to pre-K, even had iPads.
Read more at: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/discovering-that-your-18-month-old-is-using-an-ipad-in-pre-school/279438/
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Medical Assistant Careers | Online and Distance Learning
Want to know more about medical assisting careers education and training. Find out more about more about the programs and find a school that suits you ...
Read more at: http://onlineanddistancelearning.com/medical-assistant-careers
Special Education Programs Online | Online and Distance Learning
Special education programs online - how they prepare teachers of students who are learning disabled, developmentally challenged, or gifted and talented.
Read more at: http://onlineanddistancelearning.com/special-education-programs-online
Zen and the art of learning photography - Ben Heys Photography
I hesitate a little to use this title as “Zen & the art of ...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Now You Can Take A College Course On 'The Walking Dead'
AMC, UC Irvine and educational tech company Instructure will offer a massive open online course starting after the season premiers October 13th.
Each class will use plot points from the previous night’s episode and clips from older episodes to enhance the lesson. The course will cover topics like how humans prioritize needs in a catastrophe, the role of public health in a pandemic and the science of hope.
Read more at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2013/09/04/now-you-can-take-a-college-course-on-the-walking-dead/
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Things I Will Not Be Missing In My Paperless Classroom.
"As I head into the new school year, I'm not scrambling for my old lesson plan book or looking for notes in some long buried folder. All of my work is saved in Evernote and I will be sharing the work with my students on the second day of school. As I was sitting and thinking about all of the things I was going to need to start the year, I was struck by the number of things I will not need now that I'm as paperless as I can get. In no particular order, here are the things I will not miss in the upcoming school year."
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