Thursday, August 16, 2007

Voice over Talent site

This looks like a great resource for voice over work. You can submit your project and get a demo and price quote over the web. Let me know if anyone has tried this. www.voice123.com

Becoming a Rapid E-learning Pro

Great free e-book provided free by Articulate. Articulate is a great add-on program to PowerPoint that turns your presentation into a flash movie. It's the tool we are primarily using to author our web-based self-study programs now at my current instructional design job at ASHA. We're still using Captivate, some video compression software called Sorenson Squeeze and Flash to create small chunks that will be incorporated into the overall program though.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Mobile Learning for CMEs

For those of you interested in Mobile learning using PDAs and continuing medical education this is a very interesting company that is jumping on one of the latest trends. Epocrates is an educational vehicle featured on handheld devices. With an opt-in user base of over 500,000 clinicians - including more than 200,000 physicians - they have a guaranteed CME activity completion rate of 600. In addition to MobileCME, audience generation and outcomes activities, Epocrates also strategically partners with organizations like ACC to extend the reach of education and ensure that members have access to all available tools and resources, as publicized in Healthcare Informatics (http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=6529D6C30B054CC0B08979DC71A8B677): The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has teamed up with Epocrates to offer a set of tools designed specifically for cardiologists, including CardioMath, a suite of 50 commonly used formulas in cardiovascular medicine. Washington, D.C.-based ACC is shifting its continuing medical education to be accessible from PDAs. “Physicians cannot be tethered to a workstation,” says Brad Ettinger, ACC's senior director of e-business and digital products. Among ACC's membership, more than 80 percent of the younger physicians are using mobile devices.