Category: Technology
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OpenPhysio launched
OpenPhysio is an attempt to create a free, online, learning resource for physiotherapy students, physiotherapists and physiotherapy educators that anyone can edit (think, Wikipedia for physio’s). While I’m sure the idea of students creating content in a (*gasp*) non-accredited, non-peer-reviewed, unstructured and unsupervised environment is horrifying to some, I believe that this is partly where…
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Digital kids / Analogue schools
www.scottmcleod.net/storage/digitalkids.pdf Recently I came across a collection of quotes on the website of Scott McLeod, an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University. It mostly consists of quotes by David Warlick but also has a few from other blogs. Here are a few that I enjoyed: I…
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Knol: a unit of knowledge
http://knol.google.com/k/knol and Wikipedia article on Knol Knol, described as “a unit of knowledge” by the project’s creators, is a new initiative by Google that allows anyone to write an article, called a “knol”, about any topic. It’s a bit like Wikipedia in that respect but is limited to discrete articles with no links between them.…
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Managing information 2.0
Edit (07/07/08): I need to include PDF Download, another Firefox extension that makes managing PDF documents within the browser a lot easier and more flexible. Up until the latest release, my main use of it was the option to automatically download any PDF document, rather than open it in the browser, a process that’s really…
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On Wikipedia as a reference
I’ve only just gotten around to reading the January 2008 edition of “Hands on”, the newsletter of the South Africa Society of Physiotherapy (SASP) and it was with interest that I noticed a citation by the editor (Editor’s note, page 2) for Wikipedia. Unfortunately, only the name of the website (Wikipedia.org) was mentioned and not…
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Expanding the e-learning curriculum: oral presentation from SAAHE
In this oral presentation at the SAAHE conference, Dr. J. Dempers of the Division of Forensic Medicine at the University of Stellenbosch discusses the use of digital video to enhance the e-learning curriculum already in place in the Forensic Pathology Department. Currently, the department makes use of Blackboard to manage all course content besides testing,…
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Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
While working on the literature review for my Masters thesis, I came across a paper presented at the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) 2004 conference and made a note to return to the site once my thesis had been submitted and I had more time to browse the other papers.…
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Why should I blog?
I’ve made a few attempts in the past and have lost interest every time. I think it’s because I never really felt that I had much to say. I still don’t think I have a great deal to say, or at least, anything that’s of any real importance but I do think that I often…