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Welcome to the GSM Educational Technology Newsletter
This newsletter is designed to showcase some of the latest developments in medical education with a particular focus on educational technology. It will include articles to prompt ideas around the development of online learning resources (ie. GOALs, lectures, etc.) and provide some examples of good practice from around the world.
Please feel free to comment on the posts and make suggestions about areas you would like to see included in this newsletter. An introductory video to HealthMap, the global disease alert surveillance system. HealthMap was founded by a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Children's Hospital Boston in 2006 and is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. 
The Learning to Teach Online project is a free professional development resource designed to help teachers from any discipline, whether experienced in online teaching or not, to gain a working understanding of successful online teaching pedagogies that they can apply in their own unique teaching situations. The project was developed by a team from College Of Fine Arts (UNSW, Australia) and recently won the 2012 MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources. 
According to the TEDMED website: "TEDMED is a community of people who are passionate about imagining the future of health and medicine." Once a year a TEDMED conference is held and recorded. This link takes you to a list of the video recordings of the presentations from all the TEDMED conferences to date. There are talks by doctors, scientists, Nobel laureates, researchers, technologists, performance artists and ordinary people with extraordinary medical stories. 
A look at the practicalities of using an iPad in a hospital setting. Whilst the study found that health professionals who mainly used iPads for reading were satisfied with the technology, doctors and nurses who used the tablet device for data entry weren't so satisfied. Via Andrew Spong 
This short video shows you how to use video and images instead of blocks of text to make your message visually interesting. [For UOW staff - Office 2010 is not standard on your machines yet - but will hopefully be coming in the next few months] Via Baiba Svenca The topic of copyright and using other people's work in lecture notes is an important consideration for academics in the GSM. One way of reusing work is through Creative Commons licencing. This video provides a great summary of Creative Commons licences and how they can be used. Created by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand - but as CC licences are global this information is also relevant to the Australian context. 
A fantastic social network for academics. Academia.edu allows you to set up a profile including a bio, a list of your research interests and links to your publications. You can then 'follow' the work of others and participate in discussions around your research interests. A great way to publicise your academic achievements and network with other researchers in your discpline. 
Google's Scholar Citation tool displays the number of citations for your academic publications. It's quick and easy to set up and provides graphical representations of citations and indexes (h-index and i10-index). For detailed instructions on how to set up your profile see: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/11/24/google-scholar-citations-shows-promise/ 
An insightful (and humorous) article about the stages of preparing presentations on emergency medicine... but really it could apply to presentations in any situation. 
A first-hand account of how a second-year medical student has incorporated an iPad into his studies and placements. A good overview of the features of an iPad that can be useful to medical students, as well as an interesting commentary about the effect on patient interaction when you take an iPad to the bedside. This slideshow provides a good summary of do's and don'ts for designing engaging PowerPoint presentations. This is one of the examples used in the GSM PowerPoint training session. |
Tips on how to use the virtual laser pointer in PowerPoint. Especially useful for presentations given over video conferencing. 
This article from the New England Journal of Medicine was written by two Stanford University Academics who are proposing a change to traditional medical education. They advocate the flipped classroom approach which has been growing in popularity across many disciplines and stages of education. The idea being that lecture content is delivered online prior to the lecture and the lecture time becomes an interactive session based on clinical cases. 
Discover 5 creative ways to highlight text in PowerPoint. Follow the simple step by step instructions to enhance the look and feel of your presentation slides. Via Baiba Svenca 
A free online course designed for doctors and medical students which introduces social media within the medical context. The course involves 16 presentations, tests, badges and achievements. Topics include e-patients, medical search engines, mobile apps, blogging, Twitter, using Facebook as medical professionals and checking Wikipedia, Google and other online services for medical topics. Whilst this post doesn't directly relate to educational technology in medical education - creativity is key when designing elearning courses and this slideshare presentation demostrates some fantastic creativity. Be inspired :) 
A very useful article that provides guidance on writing for online audiences. This advice can be used for all sorts of writing - but especially for writing content for online learning modules. 
The Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine is a brand new journal set up by two Australian physicians. Its vision is: "to be the foremost resource for quality research examining the varied uses of mobile technologies in medicine, allowing for evidence based decision making.". The website for the journal also has a great news section full of quick updates on the latest trends. The deadline for submissions for the first edition of the journal has just closed, so the first edition should be available online in the next few months. 
Grand Rounds is a weekly summary of healthcare writing online, featuring stories, opinion and analysis from doctors, nurses, patients, researchers and administrators, as well as journalists. Each Tuesday, a different blogger takes the helm, publishing a new edition of Grand Rounds on their site. Each edition features the host’s picks for the ten best healthcare links of the week. Mary Greeley Medical Center physicians, nurses, staff, and administrators find out first hand what it is like to live a day with diabetes. A interesting video production project on diabetes. A great way to demonstrate a medical condition to students without needing access to patients with the condition. For a background story on this project see: http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2011/12/31/ames_tribune/news/doc4effba75d2f75305599092.txt 
An interesting article that encourages academics to look beyond the number of pages/slides to what makes a meaningful and productive elearning course. Some of the same principles could be said to apply to the number of slides in a lecture presentation. 
Stuck for images for your next lecture? RMIT have created a great list of links to medical images that can be used for educational purposes. Please note that images must be attributed according to the terms of use set out by the site. 
A great medical education resource, this is the personal blog of Dutch psychiatrist, Walter van den Broek, who has a keen interest in medical education. Whilst the blog does focus on his research areas around the treatment and neuroscience of depression, it also includes a wide range of other topics relevant to medical education including technology, presentation skills, admissions, and student learning techniques.
In his own words: "Besides writing about his work he also writes about other subjects that (neuro)stimulates him such as chocolate, computer gaming, gadgets, and Internet. Warning: he has a positive publication bias when it comes to these subjects." |
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