Commoncraft video

I personally like commoncraft presentation very much. It's easy to understand with the simple english and video demonstration. Here are some tools I learnt throughout the weeks:

Social bookmarking in Plain English - Delicious



Wikis in Plain English



Twitter in Plain English



Blogs in Plain English



RSS in Plain English



Social Networking in Plain English



Podcasting in Plain English



Google Reader in Plain English

Week 10 - Penny's PLE

When I go through the lines under "WHO PROVIDES SERVICES?", it is true that when someone completes their course and leaves the institutions they might not be able to re-access the portal provided by their college/ university. It is somehow wiser to use a networked service which offering public access. Meanwhile I am trying to copy and print out information from MOODLE in case I can't access it after the end of the course

Well, different tools have been introduced since week 3. For the fact that the use of technologies are changing with each passing day, I wonder I can catch that up on time but the good news are The New Literacy really gives a real insight into various formats used by educators and to certain extent into creating and collaborating T&L. The tools are there but at last, a successful virtual T&L is largely depends on the design of the course, the feedback from students, availability of internet access, and may be time?

I have learned quite a bit and my Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is expanding

Week 3: Social Bookmarking - Delicious (wonderful tools to share a website with students, especially journal articles, government's website, clinical guidelines' website)

Week 4 - Blogs (A social interactive interface which allow bloggers to write an online diary, express opinions and share informations, minimum interaction allowed as viewers can only write comment but no editing of information)

Week 5 - Wikis (Wikis are crazy, they know everything! Type on it if you are confident.)

Week 6 - Podcasting (testing testing...think of using this tool to record the conversation between pharmacist and patients (role play by students) - a great tool to learn communication skills). First you need a computer and a microphone, then you need a software to edit and record your voice: Audacity , finally a podcasting hosting site to store your voice

Week 7 - Video and webcasting (Youtube and others)

Week 8 - Twitter (updates of your status...e.g. I am typing now )

Week 9 - I am using FACEBOOK

Week 10 - RSS, Pageflakes, etc (I am good at adding a webpage into Google Reader, but having problem when copying the RSS embed link, it doesn't work sometimes...)

I wish my PLE will keep expanding...

Randy Pausch On the Oprah Winfrey Show

When I browsed through blogs update just now, I read Dr. Irene's blog post about Prof. Randy Pausch. After watching the video, I shed a few tears =(

The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk", with a topic such as "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" The talk was later released as a book called The Last Lecture , which became a New York Times best-seller." ~Wikipedia

I google him and found that he was on the Oprah Winfrey show earlier in Oct 2007 where he discussed his situation and summarised his "Last Lecture":

My Twitter Account

When first introduced to twitter, i thought it is something like facebook. In fact, twitter is a website to view everyone's status update. Also, you can be updated by mobile phone by simply register your mobile number. The interface is user-friendly and straightforward, you can type in your status every now and then, so your contact know what you up to. Very easy! But not too sure how it works with my teaching and learning plan.

My twitter address: https://twitter.com/pennywong

Podcast

My podcasting experience is pretty disappointing. The recorder seems malfunction, I tried to solve it with noise removal function and configure everything i can..hopefully to get rid of the background noise....it doesn't work. Guess you don't want to listen to even 1 minute of my voice with the background noise on. Anyhow, i did practice and have my first audio recording podcasted: Click Here to Listen (just a message saying "hi" ... with the annoying background noise).

Need to buy a new recorder.

Embed YouTube video into blog

See the highlighted area in pink? Copy the embed HTML code then paste it into the body of your post.

Step 1: Copy Embed HTML code (it is shown in every YouTube video page)

Step 2: Paste the embed HTML code into the post body (paste it under "Edit Html" NOT "Compose")

Pictures speak louder than words

Well, now i know i can download youtube with some free software. It will benefit my students for sure. By using video clip downloaded from youtube, there is lots to do and show to the students, take example the technique of using metered-dose inhaler. I used to do live demonstration in class, but isn't it good if students can play and watch it over and over when they are doing their revision.

My search on video clips focus on my teaching subject like "Healthcare and Pharmacy", "Communication Skills" and "Non-prescription Drugs". I realised that there is plenty of video clips available and suitable as teaching materials for pharmacy students. Take example, GARDASIL, a vaccine to prevent one from getting cervical cancel. By showing the video, one can easily remember that. So, take a look: