Rod's Pulse Podcast

Friday, July 27, 2007

Slice of Life Presentation Videos from the 19th Annual Slice of Life Workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah

News and observations from attending the first combined annual meeting for Blackboard and WebCT users
Blackboard World Conference Papers hosted by Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
Scholar by Blackboard

Social bookmarking integrated with Blackboard that allows faculty to tag Internet resources and share with colleagues and automatically link to course sites

Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the New York Times bestseller "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything"
Guy Kawasaki, now a venture capitalist and a columnist, he was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer

"Summertime" by Brother Love the #1 pop rock track on the Podsafe Music Network; artist is influenced by Beatles, Kiss, Led Zep, Steely Dan, Prince

Duration: 14:37

Topics covered during this 19 minute podcast:

Learning "Second Life" comments by Dr. Susan Toth-Cohen, Jefferson College of Health Professions
New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. View the YouTube video on the NMC Campus in Second Life.

Notes from attending the 19th Slice of Life Workshop at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Dr. Suzanne Stensaas, the founder and driving force behind Slice was interviewed in RPP #35
Selected Conference Highlights

Keynote: Principles of E-Learning: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology (PDF). Geoff Norman, Ph.D., McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
PocketSnips: Ubigquitous as YouTube but with Cutting Edge Quality. Joyce Helmer, David Topps, Richard Witham, Cambrian College and Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Keynote: The Socialization of Technology, Medicine and Education: Driving Forces for a New Hyperlearning Environment (PDF). Fran Rabuck, Rabuck Associates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I'm Melting! I'm Melting! Web 2.0 and the Death of the Virtual Learning Environment (PDF). Rachel Ellaway, University of Edinburgh, UK

Turning Point - Audience Response System
iSquint - free iPod Video Converter for Macintosh
Clerkship Companion - Palm-based tool for patient and procedure logging developed at Drexel

Rod presented on "Podcasting and Web 2.0: Implications for Medical Education (PDF)" - view the SlideShare Powerpoint Presentation
International Association of Medical Science Educators will incorporate the Slice of Life group next year

"Somebody to Love" by Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1967
Jefferson Airplane also performed at the Berkeley Folk Festival, Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and Altamont. "Somebody to Love" and their other hit single "White Rabbit" were from the album "Surrealistic Pillow".

Topics covered during this 15 minute podcast:

Podcast/Blog by Bill Vilberg - Associate Director of Instructional Advancement, University of Miami
In Bill's interview with Carolyn Thomas, Blackboard Academic Program Manager at UT Austin, she tells how they are planning to use Second Life
Rod will be contributing to Bill's presentation on "Sharing Our Knowledge: The BbFS Podcast Series" at the upcoming Blackboard World '07 in Boston this July

Podcast/Blog by Jeffrey Frey - with a Focus on Podcasting Technology Questions
Jeff is the Web Services Manager for Enterprise Applications in the Information Technology Department at Rice University and provides technology solutions for faculty, staff and students

"California Dreamin" by The Mamas and The Papas
It’s been 40 years since the Monterey International Pop Festival launched the world into the "Summer of Love", and helped to boost the careers of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Ravi Shankar, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and of course, The Mamas and The Papas