Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD

Discovering Medical Ethical Challenges Lecture on .docstoc

I was a bit surprised to discover this old lecture of mine that I’d developed for the Supercourse on the “Ethical Challenges of the Medical and Healthcare Internet” had been uploaded to the new .docstoc web resource.

I went ahead, created my own account and uploaded my own copy of the lecture, in addition to the version that was developed for Medinfo 2001. (I’ll be writing more about .docstoc as an Education 2.0 resource later.)

There appears to be a bit of a bug affecting embedded images. Until it gets fixed you will need to access the Ethical Challenges of the Medical and Healthcare Internet lecture at the .docstoc site.

Supercourse: Ethical Challenges of the Medical and Healthcare Internet – More about .docstoc.

For More Information:

• My Squidoo Lens about Supercourse - Epidemiology, Internet and Global Health
• Supercourse Official Website
• .docstoc

Using Virtual Guest Speakers – New Meaning to Talking Heads

I get updates from the FCS FLASH, an electronic newsletter for California Community College Family and Consumer Sciences faculty.

A week after creating and posting the Voki this blurb came through the newsletter, about using Virtual Guest Speakers. My first reaction, of course was thinking about the Voki talking heads, but Orange Coast College Fashion instructor, Mika Yamamura, is finding another way of using Virtual Guest Speakers

Using Virtual Guest Speakers
Orange Coast College instructor, Mika Yamamura has found a way of using YouTube to help students reach out and connect with the fashion industry entrepreneurs virtually.

Mika has figured out a way to bringing an array of guests by inviting them to do quick YouTube interviews. He invites people from the fashion world to answer questions about their work via a YouTube video.

The Virtual Guest Speaker Process
The guests tape and post their responses on YouTube. When the Fashion class meets, they begin the class by watching and discussing the guest interview of the week.

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