Two new episodes of the Medical Author Chat podcast were posted during EMS Week 2011. In each episode I talk to an EMS professional who is also an author. Mike Cyra author of Emergency Laughter Podcast: Interview with Barry Bachenheimer author of Please Don’t Dance in My Ambulance Barry suggests using [amazon-product text=”Please Dont Dance […]
Month: May 2011
My production process to create online education for emergency responders uses these tools: Basecamp from 37signals.com for project management PowerPoint for lesson storyboarding, narration writing, slide design, and slide animation Articulate Engage to develop custom flash interactions for lessons Audacity for recording a .wav of the audio narration Nikon D50 camera for custom photography Flip […]
Cool video profile of a search dog and handler from TEEX. Training for K9 Search and Rescue – my own experience. [amazon-product text=”Scent of the Missing” type=”text”]B004X8W5P8[/amazon-product] – best K9 SAR book I have read.
I used PowerPoint to animate a game show type spinner. This screencast explains/demonstrates my process. Another ScreenR user @onEnterFrame made a screencast that demonstrated a better and easier way to make the game show spinner. This screencast explains/demonstrates his process. What is intriguing for me is that a free web based tool, ScreenR, gave me […]
Angry Birds: Backyard Edition
Or the Circle of Life played out in my backyard.
The EMSEduCast – the podcast by and for EMS educators – is recorded using Skype’s group calling features. Here are some tips to get high quality sound and minimize delays, echos, background noise, and other sound imperfections: Free up as much computer resources as possible by shutting down any other applications running on your computer. […]
EMSEduCast – the podcast by and for EMS Educators – has now recorded more than 100 episodes. Recently I was looking back at our first season of 29 episodes. These episodes, still available at EMSEduCast.com and iTunes, are full of resources, teaching ideas, and insightful discussions of important EMS education issues. Looking back on season […]
3 Books on E-Learning Design
When I first started designing and producing continuing and refresher education programs for EMTs and Paramedics I jumped right in by applying knowledge I already had about adult education and PowerPoint design. Along the way through a lot of trial and error I have steadily improved the instructional design process I use. This process includes […]
The EMS Newbie podcast is hosting a great contest for new EMS professionals. The grand prize is an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas. Read all the details at EMS Newbie – Vegas Baby. My experience with contests like this is far fewer people enter than you might expect. Which means your odds of […]
Sorry I didn’t find and post this video sooner. In the video James Broselow, inventor of the Broselow tape, sends EMS Week greetings and also announces that his company was giving away free copies of its pediatric assessment applications on Wednesday, May 18. (two days ago)