Prezi: a funky, whizzy new way of presenting
On Tuesday this week I ran a workshop for about 50 nurses, midwives, medics and post-grad med students at a staff development day. I thought I would try a new tool that is out in beta at the moment – Prezi. The easiest way to get your head around Prezi is to have a gander [...]
In: 23 Things, Learning & Development, Software & Applications, Web2.0 · Tagged with: application, Faculty, Internet, Learning 2.0, Medics, Midwifery, Nursing, presentation, ProfessionalDeveloment, School, software, StaffDevelopment, technology, Web 2.0
Walking the technology tightrope
Have you ever taken a walk on the wildside? For some reason I always seem to get some perverse thrill out of presenting to audiences where the pear-shaped potential quotient is extremely high. I haven’t done one in a number of years, and on Tuesday this week I gave a 1 hour PD session to [...]
In: 23 Things, Challenges, Learning & Development, Tech & Apps, Web2.0 · Tagged with: application, CHS, ECU, Faculty, Internet, Learning 2.0, Medics, Midwifery, Nursing, presentation, ProfessionalDevelopment, School, software, StaffDevelopment, technology, Web 2.0
Information Overload Challenge – yes you!
In reference to my previous post, I would like to challenge you the reader to list 3 strategies you use to minimise your information overload. Here are 3 of mine (and still drowning): 1) Nelson Email Organiser (NEO) – total godsend – I get over 100 emails a day at work (so good, I put [...]
In: Reflections, Tech & Apps · Tagged with: Communication, Information Overload, Internet, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Web2.0
Information Overload – when is enough enough? OR: My brain is hurting
I wrote a post a little while back, derived from and assignment I did at uni last year on communication issues with technology and also information overload. I think this is how I am feeling right now (although my brain seems to be accelerating out the front of my head lately)…..absolutely bloody overloaded. Multiple nings [...]
In: Reflections · Tagged with: Communication, Information Overload, Internet, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Web2.0
Encrypting your account passwords with Password Safe
My recent post will have showed you how to set up your password database and get started with adding your user names and passwords. As promised I am now looking closer at the functionality of Password Safe with regards to using it to encrypt and secure the multitude of passwords that rule your life. Before [...]
In: Tech & Apps · Tagged with: Encryption, Internet, Passwords, Security
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