Tag: Observations
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What makes sims rock – brain dump
I was talking with my brother during a road trip this weekend and it always amazes me what incredible learners medical students tend to be. But this conversation didn’t have as much to do with learning as it had to do with how things have changed in the teaching of med students and the practice…
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Pearls are like Windows
It seems that the Blackberry is built on the same idea of troubleshooting that Windows and many other mobile devices. That being, if something goes wrong, restart to reset. That should get everything going again the way that it should be. This is what I found to be the case with my previous Nokia, that…
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Twittering out
There has been much digital ink spilled on Twitter, and this is not likely to be seen above the noise of everything else that is out there, but I have noticed something interesting in the critiques of both Twitter (CPU, and C|Net) and the Semantic Web (OLDaily) combined with some thoughts as to the differences…
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IT vs IT revisited, ID emerges
Some time ago, when I started my position here in the Faculty of Science, I wrote about the difference between Information Technology and Instructional Technology. This topic came up again this week in conversations on campus with various colleagues and I mentioned that I’ve started to use the term ID (Instructional Design) within the Faculty…
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Blogs and ePorts on a deserted island
Recently in talking to a few profs who have been looking at using blogs or portfolios in their own courses, they said that they heard from other instructors that the “magic” that blogs and eportfolios are supposed to bring to the class, just hasn’t happened. The students don’t care about them. They think they are…