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A good Web 2.0 primer for educators

It's time to head back to school and there are a number of web-based and social tools to help you get through the school year. Here are 15 essential ones.\n

Tools, tools, tools.

This easy tool will allow you to create, publish and grade quizzes online. This generator is very flexible and, perhaps even more importantly, is free of charge. (Source: Web 2.0 toolbox)

Flashcard web application that has includes sharing, importing, groups, and multiple study modes.

American Association of School Librarians lists best websites

A good list of tools and resources for Web2.0 teaching tools

Many comments (185) - pro and con http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/ * college needs to be less "place-based," * overall point is that it's just too expensive and too hard to get these upper-level educations. * soon place-based college educations will be five times less important than they are today. * no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. * textbooks are too long... even in grade school some are 300 pages. * our text books are three times longer than the equivalents in Asia.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself. Works like CiteULike

"HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. Through generous funding by IAMSE, HEAL is becoming a dynamic, user-centered digital environment to allow medical educators to share and discuss teaching resources and methods. This is being accomplished through the incorporation of key characteristics of Web 2.0 technologies into HEAL including user reviews of resources and user tagging (searchable keywords) of resources. "

This article has a great video in it that shows variation in magazine design for the new iPad. Magazine design may lead the way for publication/Web surfing navigation design.

"Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web."

This is an open source LMS, which could be compared to MOODLE

After a quick review, i would say this open source is much more friendly than Moodle and feels more like you are in a microsoft application...definitely worth use

"While telemedicine may seem a cold and impersonal approach to patient care, physicians say it's exactly the opposite. And they are quickly embracing it as a way to foster a more intimate relationship with patients and educate them about treatments prior to office visits."

Good article on e-Health, EMR, and social media for healthcare

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Good example of a 'learning Object' - animations and small units on Genetics

This is a great place to learn genetics, I tried numerous modules and they all work when you enter the web module, however there were no instructor instructions or student instructions on these tools,... only a screen stating it was under construction, so I would recommend that if you use this site you write clear instructions for your students. I plan to use the site with the nurse practitioners in the Spring. I will require the Genetic counseling one for this group. I hope that they will be intrigued and try some of the other modules, which they may have to do in order to correctly do the genetic counseling.

This video is of Michael Wesch talking to the Library of Congress is a must see for educators. Whe you have 55 minutes, you should watch it. It's worth your time, I promise. Wesch also spoke at the CHAT festival in Chapel Hill earlier this year that Newman and I attended. He hit on some of the same points, but this talk below is quite extradordinary. It is an expansion of his short video by the same name.

Make sure to take the tour