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Distributed Medical Education 2007-09-24 12:31:37 The College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan is currently investigating how distributed medical education could provide more physicians for Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan has some dynamic examples of community-based medical education such as: Switch http://www.switch.usask.ca/ Regina Family Medicine Unit http://www.medicine.usask.ca/family/sites-and-divisions/regina-family-medicine-unit Prince Albert http://www.medicine.usask.ca/family/sites-and-divisions/rural-family-medicine-prince-albert/ To further your understanding of what distributed learning looks like in other provinces, please look at the models below. Multiple Campus Model Northern Ontario Medical School Multiple campuses http://www.normed.ca/ British Columbia Northern Campus, Island Campus + Fraser Valley Campus http://www.med.ubc.ca/education/distributed_programs.htm Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Windsor and London Campuses http://www.uwindsor.ca/units/medicalbuilding/construction.nsf/inToc/24CB8F79500D27F ...

picnic project: RFID racket reader 2007-09-24 11:44:00 Well, I’m just back from Amsterdam, where I spent a couple of days on Mediamatic‘s RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp for the upcoming Picnic conference / festival. Here’s a snapshot of what I did there ^_^ click to enlarge But no, I haven’t been building a bomb of some kind. The complete projectblog is overhere: RFID racket reader *^_^* From:geek technique ...

G1G1 is a good idea. And, for the record, so is OLPC. 2007-09-24 04:26:25 The One Laptop Per Child team has responded to a good idea offered by countless bloggers, wellwishers, critics and journalists: sell the XO-1 laptop to the general public in a way that helps subsidize uptake of the device in the developing world. Nicholas Negroponte has announced a program called “Give 1 Get 1″, which will allow people in the US and Canada to pay $399, and receive a laptop. The laptop costs approximately $188 to produce, which means that the remainin $211 subsidizes the purchase of an additional laptop for use in the developing world. The laptops go on sale at xogiving.org on November 12th and will be available for only two weeks. (I would recommend signing up for an email reminder on the site if you’re planning on buying one. Walter Bender is quoted on the BBC as saying that the first 25,000 would ship before the end of the year - I suspect this may mean that there’s an anticipated first run of 25,000 and that anyone not in that first group mig ...

Overcommitment and the descent into madness 2007-09-24 02:07:07 As I rapidly descend into madness, it’s reassuring to look back on my blog and discover that I’ve been here before. I started writing a story about the artist Jenny Holzer and how she managed to miss the entirety of autumn in the Berkshires and realized that I’d told the story here before, a year ago, as I wrestled with a crazy schedule last fall. Turning to my colleagues is reassuring as well: danah appear to be embarking on a conference season that’s even more action-packed than mine, with 13 talks in 12 cities in three countries. She, wisely, is announcing a period of hibernation after this speaking binge to finish her dissertation. That notion makes me want to enter a PhD program just so I could have an excuse to stop travelling for a bit. From:…My heart’s in Accra ...

Petaflops for health 2007-09-24 01:10:26 Most people are probably familiar with SETI@Home and similar initiatives that use spare CPU cycles on networked commodity PCs (both in the office and at home) to deliver what effectively amounts to a very large-scale parallel computing facility. The Folding@home initiative - which uses the same technique to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases - is going one step further, using the streaming processors now more common in consumer electronics such as games consoles. This advance utilizes streaming processors now common in inexpensive consumer electronics, such as the Cell processor in Sony’s PlayStation 3  or personal computers with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI, to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers. With this new technology, we are able to attain performance on the 100 gigaflop scale per computer, at a very modest cost (~$500). Thus, armed with this new technology, we are setting out on a new initiative to take Fo ... Health

Smart codes 2007-09-23 21:53:47 I’ve never been totally convinced by those that tell us that mobile phones and PDAs are going to have a massive impact on the way we deliver teaching and learning.  It seems to me that we’re still waiting for that to happen to any great extent.  Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. Via Alan Levine I discovered Semapedia and smart codes - a kind of two-dimensional barcode, encoding of a URL or message that can be printed out and stuck on physical objects.  Install a decoder on your mobile phone or PDA, point the camera at the smart code and it will display the text or take you directly to the URL.  A neat way to link the physical world to the Web. The image above is the smart code for this blog. From:eFoundations ...

Social tagging video 2007-09-23 13:57:50 Via Liddy Nevile on the Dublin Core Social Tagging Community mailing list I note that Commoncraft have a nice video about social bookmarking and tagging, targeted specifically at teachers but accessible to a wide audience I imagine. The use of del.icio.us (or delicious.com) by teachers was exactly what I was trying to encourage when I developed the Newbridge Primary School Web site a while ago.  Unfortunately it hasn’t really happened yet, largely because we haven’t invested enough time in school, teaching the teachers how to do it :-(.  This video would definitely help to get the message across. From:eFoundations ...

After Winning, Carl Edwards Is Still Feeling The Monster’s Rage 2007-09-23 07:08:59 The one mile track in Dover Delaware proved to be one Monster of a Mile for most of the Chase contenders today.With only 6 cars on the lead lap at the end of the race the Monster Mile took a bite out of almost everyone today, including the race winner Carl Edwards. You see, Carl’s car failed post-race inspection. It was too low in the right rear. Fines will be handed out. Carl gets to keep his win. I’ve got a problem with that, but that is another post in the making. Carl is expecting a 25 point fine in addition to the monetary fine as well. This 25 point deduction will drop him to 6th in the points from 3rd.Carl suspects that the reason the car is low is because of ‘The Biff’. Greg ‘The Biff’ Biffle, Carl’s teammate at Roush-Fenway Racing and second place finisher, gave Carl a few congratulatory love taps in the right rear corner of Carl’s car with his own during the cool down lap after the race and it from that action that Carl thinks m ...

Busch and Bush 2007-09-22 23:47:03 Today’s Busch Race: Is it me, or are there others that find having Denny Hamlin in that #20 Busch car today a bit stupid? I mean he is running in the Chase after all, and he is sick as a dog with the flu. The 2.5 hours he spent in the car today will do nothing to get him better for tomorrow. They should have put Kurt Busch in the car, he was there anyway.If Denny is more sick tomorrow, or has a bad day, we’ll all know why.The only reason why I can see him in that car today is because JGR is trying to get Rockwell to be a bigger sponsor for next year, maybe even a Cup sponsor. That is the only thing that makes sense to me. My Last 4 Days in The Bush:I had the great chance to take approximately 20 Eighth Grade students into the wilderness for 4 days on a Leadership Development course at Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve (approx. 70,000 acres and approx. 60 lakes). No cell phone signal, no internet (thus no blogging), etc.On the first day, after we got there, we did a bun ...

Watch 20 20 semi final and final live 2007-09-22 15:08:15 Hurry fast it’s a real thriller of a match with India scoring 188/5 I bet India will win. Anyway to watch the match live download Sopcast, once you have downloaded Sopcast install it and login anonymously and enter sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/32206 as the channel and boom you will have live 20 20 semi final cricket online. Use the same for the final which may be a very good one if India and Pakistan are in the final. Have fun. Technorati tags: 20 20, world cup, cricket, semi final, final Copyright © 2007 Techie Buzz From:Techie Buzz ...

GPS tracking company 2007-09-22 12:06:04 If your company uses a number of vehicles for any purpose, a reliable GPS system is absolutely necessary to track all of them. Most companies who have installed a GPS system in their vehicles are usually for navigation and security reasons. After reading about the GPS Insight vehicle tracking system provided by GPS Insight, I got to learn about the other benefits of installing and implementing a GPS system. This includes able to calculate routing efficiencies, fuel savings and not paying for labour when the drivers are not really working. I found their Blog for GPS vehicle tracking really informative. According to one of their latest posts, collecting GPS data might not be enough. The data needs to be collated into something quantifiable in order for it to be useful to the companies. Using the example of a large trash hauling operation in Denver, it is shown how they are able to come up with useful information from the tremendous amount of data generated, such as : How many trips pe ...

MIT: What is civic media? 2007-09-21 18:37:45 Henry and Chris are two of three principal investigators of the newly founded Center for Future Civic Media, funded through generous support of the Knight Foundation as part of the same grants series that supports Rising Voices, the Global Voices outreach project. Leading off the evening, Henry quickly dispells my fears about a confusion between civic media and citizen journalism, offering a very broad definition of civic media: “Any use of any medium which fosters civic engagement.” He defines a “medium” as more than just a technology, but “a communication technology and the social protocols around its use.” To illustrate, Henry offers two photos, one of a group of men reading a newspaper on a streetcorner together in the 1930s, and another, contemporary photo of young Japanese women taking photos of something offscreen. The first clearly looks like an example of civic engagement - it’s people interacting with journalism, talking about civic i ...

Swap your bytes with Byteswap.com 2007-09-20 14:04:11 A byte is commonly used as a unit of storage measurement in computers, regardless of the type of data being stored. Byteswap is a aptly name service which allows you to swap all those bytes of information with friends, family and more. Byteswap allows you to share almost anything with anyone. You can store links, documents, contacts, photos, articles and much more. If there is something you would like to share you can contact the Byteswap team and they will work on adding support to share your content. The service is like a social networking for your bytes, upload and share with anyone you want to. Byteswap provides 2 types of membership plans for sharing information one is Basic and other is a Premium plan for $9.99. Basic membership limits you to share only 20 items per month totaling to 100MB with a cap of 5 MB on per item, you can also only create 4 groups with 4 members each in it. Basic version will give you a hang of how things work and if you like what you see you can always u ...

Windmills, ethanol, tortillas, Malthus and sinking nations. Oh, and online gambling, too. 2007-09-19 21:07:12 The 1.5 megawatt turbine on Jiminy Peak. Photo by Swerz. But the bigger global agricultural picture is much uglier, at least in the long term, if you follow the work of economist William Cline. Like many of the economists I find most interesting, Cline is based at the Center for Global Development, an excellent development thinktank in Washington, DC. Cline’s recent work focuses on the impact of climate change on global agriculture. Cline looks at some widely accepted climate models that project increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and resulting changes in temperature and precipitation. He then projects the agricultural yield of farm land throughout the world in 2080 assuming the predicted climate changes. The result is a decrease in agricultural productivity around the world of 10-25%. This effect is much, much sharper in equatorial nations - he projects a 27% decrease in productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, and drops of 38% in India and 35% in Mexico. ...

Watch 20 20 Cricket World Cup Highlights Online 2007-09-19 11:23:22 Cricket in India is as huge as baseball in America but being a Indian I always want to watch the latest cricket action but am unable due to pay per view and odd hours for watching the matches here in the US. Watch the Yuvraj 6 6 6 6 6 6 video. You can watch that video here and also all the cricket highlights for the 20 20 Cricket World cup at crickethighlights.info.   Technorati tags: cricket, highlights, 20 20, world cup Copyright © 2007 Techie Buzz From:Techie Buzz ...