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This blog has been developed in cooperation with supranational and national member societies of the International Council of Opthalmology to keep you current on new technologies and the application of these technologies to teaching and learning.Comments are welcome
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Category Archives: 2011
Customized Virtual Learning Meeting Points
By Helena Filipe Internet offers both learners and educators customized virtual meeting points. Today we will present software with such capability. Drop box http://www.dropbox.com/ enables us to store our own multimedia files (photos, videos and other documents) and have them … Continue reading
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Downloading Videos from YouTube: Can we? Should we?
By Dr. Eduardo Mayorga. When looking for videos to train our residents, YouTube becomes a great source for them. The videos can be watched on line during a class or you can send the residents a link for them to … Continue reading
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Evaluating computer skills
Computer skills is a competency all residents must acquire. Electronic medical records, searching for evidence in literature databases, preparing presentations, are only a few examples where they will apply these skills. There are at least two ways in which you can evaluate their … Continue reading
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Learning is a social activity.
By Helena Filipe Twitter is a free social network consisting of a microblog allowing users to send and receive short (140 characters, maximum) messages designated as tweets. The concept can be visualized as a flock of birds flying in the … Continue reading
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