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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-07

Mar 7, 2011

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Focus on the technology or not? http://ow.ly/1s78vm. Focusing on tech can highlight their relative strengths # Do you prefer printed books? http://ow.ly/1s78th. How we use books can impact format and device preferences # Making a Concrete Abstract http://bit.ly/gQzjN9. The most important part of your paper, the abstract determines whether your work is read # The…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-28

Feb 28, 2011

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@hotdogcop Tweeted this earlier, pretty funny, but also pretty accurate http://onion.com/h3coIN # The Changing Landscape of Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE http://bit.ly/dFXmaz # Richard Feynman on the pleasure of finding things out http://bit.ly/gij2ve # Massive Health Uses Big Data, Mobile Phones to Fight Chronic Disease http://ow.ly/1s4Epd # The Daily Is Interesting, But Is It…
Innovative practices in education (colloquium)

Aug 22, 2010

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Alwyn Louw, Amanda Morris, author, clickers, colloquium, creative solutions, Daniela Gachago, Edwine Simon, Engineering, feedback tool, Frontline, genre, granger bay, Ian Barbour, Ian Scott, Ingrid Mostert, innovation, Judith Jurgens, knowledge, knowledge construction tool, learning model, learning tool, lecturer, lecturer and teaching assistant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marie-Anne Ogle, Mark Herbert, Martjie van Heusden, Mbiya Baudouin, pedagogical practices using technology, personal learning environment, ple, poster and presentation Lecturer, Professor, scholarship, SMS, Somikazi Deyi, Suzanne Short, Taryn Bernard, teaching and learning, Vera Frith, Western Cape

Last week I attended a teaching and learning colloquium at Granger Bay, near the Waterfront. It was organised to showcase some of the teaching practices being used at the 4 teaching institutions in the Western Cape. I was fortunate to be invited to present one of the keynotes on Friday morning and since I’ve been…
SAAHE workshop – Curricular alignment. What does it mean?

Jul 23, 2010

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curricular alignment, Debbie Murdoch-Eaton, Miller’s pyramid, pence, Professor, saahe, workshop

Presented by Professor Debbie Murdoch-Eaton. If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably not going to get there. A clear vision of the intended outcomes should drive every aspect of teaching, learning and assessment Outcomes must be clear because they will determine your teaching methods, and will also direct assessment Preparing students for their…
SAAHE keynote – How to construct a medical curriculum that matters

Jul 23, 2010

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clinical education, clinical settings, healthcare environment, healthcare learning environment, healthcare setting, herman von rossum, Professor, saahe, suitable healthcare events

Presentation by Professor Herman von Rossum. In preclinical years, you insert learning stimuli from the context of application (i.e. a clinical environment) into the educational learning environment. In clinical years, you insert education moments into the healthcare environment In constructing a curriculum, you must first determine the health needs of a society, then determine the…
SAAHE keynote – What generic skills do students bring with them?

Jul 23, 2010

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Debbie Murdoch-Eaton, generic skills, graduate attributes, murdoch-eaton, No, Professor, saahe, stress management, teacher, time management, United Kingdom

This is the presentation from Professor Debbie Murdoch-Eaton. What impacts do we have on students life ambitions? Workers with general / transferable skills are better placed to succeed in a global knowledge economy. The skills need not be specific to the discipline The attributes are not only about economic drivers i.e. getting a job…they are…
SAAHE keynote – Improving health professions education to improve health (Bill Burdick)

Jul 23, 2010

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bill burdick, hans rosling, health education, health outcomes, healthcare, Professor, public policy makers, Ruth Levine, saahe

I’m going to split my blog posts up according to the different sessions, just for ease of reference i.e. a few posts, rather than one very long one. Here are my notes from the first keynote of the day, from Professor Bill Burdick. If you don’t continue the momentum for change, you’re going to be…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31

May 31, 2010

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Got feedback from my HoD re. my research productivity for the semester. Too many sideprojects slowing me down http://tinyurl.com/3aflcp2 # @cristinacost I find it confusing. pptPlex for Powerpoint seems to be a good compromise between linear and freeform http://bit.ly/9ltFH8 # @NancyWhite I also find Prezi to be quite complex, although I suppose that, as with…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24

May 24, 2010

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Academic Productivity » New paths to “research productivity” http://bit.ly/dBnPYO # Bloom’s Taxonomy. Useful illustration with additional information that may assist with implementation http://bit.ly/cAFYwr # The Cronk of Higher Education » College Art Exhibit Celebrates 30 Years of Boredom in Academia (humour) http://bit.ly/cBufLp # APA Style Blog: It’s All Latin to Me: Latin Abbreviations in Scholarly…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-29

Mar 29, 2010

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Screenr – Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way, includes posting to Twitter http://bit.ly/9t6uLh # Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Contacts in the Browser http://bit.ly/bsQnr9 # RT @davidworth: RT @brad_bett: High-Tech Cheating Abounds, & Professors Bear Some Blame: Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/bOuBCA # RT @cristinacost: …Am I right to assume we need…
Reflections on improving teaching practice

Feb 8, 2010

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Ann F. Lucas, blog, lecturer, open textbook, phd, Professor, reflection, research, scholarship of teaching and learning, students, teaching, teaching practice, wiki

Up until today, I was kind of maintaining 2 blogs…this one, and a reflective commentary that I included in my teaching portfolio wiki. The portfolio is something that our faculty suggests we keep for when we apply for promotion, etc. but I thought it could be something more. So when I started teaching in 2007, I…
Reflective writing

Jan 14, 2010

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As part of their clinical placements, our students are required to complete some reflective components and submit them along with their clinical files at the end of the block. These reflections are usually in the form of SWOT analyses, SPAR stories, reflective journals or critical reflections of journal articles. The writing exercises are meant to…
TEDx Johanessburg (session 1) – Hennie Eksteen

Dec 7, 2009

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earthworms, Eksteen Here, food, Professor, tedx, tedxjohannesburg

Here are some interesting facts about earthworms: They have no immune system…or teeth The more rotten their food is, the better They are the most numerous animals on earth They lay cocoons every day or so Earthworms create, purify and sanitise soil OK, this is interesting but nothing I can’t get from Wikipedia. I’m in…
Clinical guidelines: should we be using them?

Aug 6, 2008

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Centre for Allied Health Evidence, clinical guidelines, evidence based practice, guideline applications, handheld devices, healthcare, Karen Grimmer-Somers, National Institute of Clinical Excellence, Professor

I attended a lecture a few days ago by Karen Grimmer-Somers, a professor at the University of South Australia and Director of the Centre for Allied Health Evidence (CAHE). An adjunct professor at the University of Stellenbosch, she visits Cape Town every year or so and this year we were fortunate enough to have her…
Patient safety: keynote from SAAHE conference

Jul 7, 2008

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Ara Tekian, medical error, patient safety, physiotherapy, Professor, saahe, SAAHE08, students

I finally got around to typing up some of my notes from the SAAHE conference. Here is the first keynote address I attended. It was a presentation by Professor Ara Tekian, the Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois, entitled “Medical errors and patient safety: teaching and assessing at undergraduate level”. While…