Upcoming Webinar: Simulation Based Learning in Pharmacy Education

Title:  Simulation Based Learning in Pharmacy Education

Date and Time:  Noon -  1 p.m. (Central Time) on January 25, 2012

Presenters:
Amy L. Seybert, B.S., Pharm.D.
Interim Chair and Associate Professor, Pharmacy and Therapeutics,
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh
Associate Director for Pharmacy Programs
Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation Education and Research (WISER Institute)

Erica J. Ottis, Pharm.D., BCPS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
University of Missouri-Kansas City at MU
Clinical Specialist- Inpatient Internal Medicine

Webinar Site Address: http://aacp.na5.acrobat.com/tipel
Conference Call Information:
Phone number: 1-800-377-8846<tel:1-800-377-8846>
Participant Code: 94061839#
Please log into the site as a guest using your e-mail address.
Additional Details:
·  The meeting room will open at {15 minutes prior to the event}.
·  Participants can access the audio portion of the Webinar via phone (conference call) or computer speakers. (Please mute your computer speakers if you are listening via the conference call.)
·  Participant audio input will be muted so they are not able to speak to other participants, the presenter or moderator.
·  Participants can submit questions to the moderator or IT support person via chat. The moderator will review all chat questions and ask selected questions to the presenter periodically.
·  An IT support person from AACP will be present throughout the duration of the Webinar to assist with technical support requests from participants (to be received from participants via text chat).

Webinar access information is also available on the TiPEL SIG web site at http://www.aacp.org/governance/SIGS/technology/Pages/default.aspx.

We hope to see you Wednesday, January 25th.

When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense

Slashdot has a discussion about an NPR story where a professor discusses the success he has had moving from lectures to active learning strategies.   Fair enough.   However, he drops this little nugget:

 'With modern technology, if all there is is lectures, we don't need faculty to do it. ... Get 'em to do it once, put it on the Web, and fire the faculty.'"

Seems a bit harsh...

Self sanitizing keyboard approved by FDA

As I have to remind my students on occasion, the FDA doesn't just approve drugs.

There's a story at IT World about a keyboard that uses ultraviolet light to kill bacteria.  The authors of the article are less than impressed.

They do have this bit of wisdom in the article:

Never, ever accept a used keyboard from a hospital

Tech For Small Library Automation?

A reader at SlashDot posted this question

"I've recently been tapped as 'the tech guy' at my church where a group familiar with library automation wants to get digital with the relatively small catalog. Right now all the materials are simply on shelves, and people take an item down, fill out the paper card and drop it into a box, and we hope that people correctly calculate their own due dates and return the materials. We had a card catalog, but it went largely unused. We're looking for a complete solution for both administration and self-checkout; label printing, checkout receipts, and so on. Have any Slashdot readers found yourself in this position, and do you have recommendations based on your experiences?"

Head on over to their site to see what people have recommended.

Boston schools producing iPhone apps

Any schools out there that have a an iPhone app for recruiting students?   There's a link to a story over at TUAW that talks about what works and what doesn't for the apps produced by several Boston-area schools.

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Best software for putting lectures online

Over at Slashdot someone posted this question:

"I'm trying to help a school put their classes online in the way most minimally invasive to the teachers. A few environmental considerations: They don't always have live internet in the classroom, or I'd just run to Skype. I'm hoping to make it as much one-touch start/stop as possible to start recording, stop recording, and upload to a server. I'd like to believe others here have already done something similar, so if a package or process worked for you, that would be great to hear. Not sure what if it's all PowerPoint lectures, or if they actually use a whiteboard, and if so what the best camera would be to use (on a school budget!)."

Like most Slashdot posts it's necessary to weed through the comments to see what people have to say, but there's a few good tips there.