"Side by Side is a remarkable free app. With Side by Side, you can split the iPad screen into as many as four windows that can be positioned and sized as needed. These windows can be used to view multiple websites, PDF’s or MS Word files. Or, any of the windows may be used for note-taking text editors. Text can be copied into a text editor from other open windows. Text-to-speech is available in any of the windows via Speak Selection." Via John Evans 
Six months ago, concerned about the sustainability of FriendFeed, I switched our student network to the newly available Google+, and have not looked back.
My week facilitating #change11, a very massive MOOC, flew by too fast for me to blink. 
Teens haven't adopted Twitter as quickly as other demographics, but that could be changing.
Facebook is like shouting into a crowd. Twitter is like speaking into a room" — that's what one teen said when he was participating in a focus group at Microsoft Research, Marwick says. Today I, somewhat belatedly, caught up on the news that Stanford University will be running an open course on Clinical Anatomy as part of it's growing offering of open educational courses. The fi... 
Following our live chat, where our panel of experts explored the hows and why of self-publishing, we now round up the top 20 things you need to know for academic self-publishing success... 
Medical students need to be taught to understand medical science before ![Tumblr Numbers: The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging [INFOGRAPHIC] | eLearning, Medical Education and Other Snippets | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/KqcAFGQsrNrz4t7pmdb32Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
In just a few short years, Tumblr has risen to the world stage as a popular social media platform. Check out the system's nuts and bolts. 
Grockit provides a really simple and fast way to build social tasks and interaction around any video from YouTube and it does it in a way that is much more suitable for delivery to students, as the interface removes many of the distractions that a direct link to YouTube would include. Via Nik Peachey Excellent presentation delivered from Margot Bloomstein to the Web 2.0 Expo 2011 audience on October 11th on the topic of content curation. Via Robin Good 
Digital literacies are relevant to anyone who works, learns and plays in the digital media landscape - most of us want to do all those things as well as we can. It's quite difficult to some up with... 
Diagnosed with a rare blood disease, Will Self has to endure weekly 'venesections' in hospital. He reflects on illness, addiction and mortality |
NoteScraper does what it says on the tin. Works a treat and copies your highlights and notes straight into Evernote. 
Elearning courses are mostly visual. When you build a course you have to have the right visual look to match your content. I like to think of it as creating a visually immersive experience where you’re trying to place the learner in the same space as the content. Via Dundee TILT 
All good points in this essay BUT ... NOT everyone has the luxury of instructional designers to help them develop elearning resources. In medical education Harden and Crosby defined the 12 roles of the teacher (http://bit.ly/zrrL5u), one of these is the resoucre developer and it's probably an area where lecturers need staff development input. 
Shock News: David Wiley is right (again). Current OER sucks. What's next? (Networked peer learning, obviously). Via AJCann 
myblog.arts is the blogging community for students and staff at University of the Arts London.
Nice example of Wordpress being used at the University of the Arts in London. 
Google announced yesterday that its layered 3D browser of the human body has become an open-source project.
"Probably there were two problems: firstly, recognising the opportunities that technology presents is a lot easier than predicting how people will interact with that technology. Secondly, we failed to think about the implementation. We assumed that if we built it, they would come."
Don’t BlamePowerPointIt’s just a vehicle...
Some students didn't take well to Steven Maranville’s teaching style at Utah Valley University. They complained that in the professor’s “capstone” business course, he asked them questions in class even when they didn't raise their hands. They also didn't like it when he made them work in teams. 
Are Web 2.0 and social media really useful in clinical decision making? How do you use them? Leave a comment and share your story now! A collaborative presentation written by contributors to the TEL programme, the London Knowledge, the Open University, reviewing what they have learnt in the pas... |
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