Peak into the CORD Academic Assembly: A first-hand account

8:08 AM in cdem, education, faculty development, social media and web 2.0

Be a fly on the wall!

March 3rd kicks off the 3-day CORD Academic Assembly in San Diego where educators, residency directors, and clerkship directors all assemble for a big pow-wow on all-things education in EM.

Keep checking back here for real-time accounts of the conference as I bounce from room to room and lecture to lecture. The most recent post will be at the top.



FYI, Dr. Horng emailed me the link to his CORD handout from the "Web 2.0" didactic session. Thanks!

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Prezi: A new age for presentations?

3:00 AM in education, faculty development, Technology

Presentations are traditionally given using Powerpoint. Keynote is prettier alternative to Powerpoint but is only Macintosh-compatible. Both have the same antiquated structure such that content is presented only linearly.

The hottest presentation tool now is Prezi, a web-based tool, which allows the viewer to zoom in and out of sections. The visuals are more of a conceptual map of the content, where the viewer or speaker can zoom around any desired topic. Because it's online, you can easily embed YouTube videos.

Take a look at this Prezi demo advocating it as a tool for teaching.

To navigate, you can click on the gray arrows at the bottom to advance forward or backward, as pre-programmed. Alternatively, you can drag the display using your mouse. Or you can zoom in/out using the + or - tools on the right.

Thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool on Prezi

What are your experiences with this?

You can also view a TED video where Chris Anderson uses Prezi as his slides.

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