Journal 7: Reflection

I find personal learning networks to be rather intuitive, it makes sense that you need a group to learn from and to expand on your educational techniques--often the things we learn and remember best are from group experiences or emotional experiences. 

I created an account with www.Edutopia.com however it only took me a few sessions of perusing it to realize that it was not going to be as beneficial to me as I had hoped it would.  It is geared more towards K-12.  Although not pertinent to my life, I can see how this would be an amazing source for other teachers.

I find I get most of my PLN information via my Old Reader (www.theoldreader.com) RSS feed.  I subscribe to many Medical Education, Free Open Access Medical-Education, or FOAMed, sites. These websites not only provide educational materials but also ideas on how to teach. 

I follow many Emergency Medicine Educational "Celebrities" on twitter--again this is mostly for my own education and not yet for teaching purposes. 

These resources have shown me how easy it can be to distribute education--although it is difficulty to constantly be coming up with new posts and it takes time to makes these posts. I will likely incorporate blogging and twitter into teaching EM Residents, I find these methods easy to learn from, quick and on the go, which is helpful in this field. 

Q1: How will you incorporate what you have learned into your teachings?

A1: I have so many ideas, we already have a twitter fact feed, I would love to make a website for teaching with an additional blog!

Q2:Do you believe it will be easy to incorporate this into your teachings?

A2:I think finding the tim will be the hardest part for me! I think EM residents will respond well to on the go teaching but finding time to put it all together will be the hard part for me!

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This is a Pavlova. It is a delicious Meringue topped with fresh whipped cream and fresh berries. YUM!

Journal 6: Reflection

I was so excited to to take this class, I have a little experience in Photoshop and Illustrator but absolutely no experience in web design or html, and have been wanting to get my feet wet for years. This class has far exceeded my expectations, I thought html would be difficult and hard to learn, but I am finding that it is actually quite intuitive. 

I am surprised at how quickly I went from writing a simple page to adding fancy fonts, pictures, backgrounds.  

The Learning Web Design book

Has been an amazing adjunct to class. 

I like that html follows very specific rules, that you "open" and "close" and that there are defined way in which to do things--this applies to the part of me that loves math and calculus.  Further I love that you can keep the "meat" or content of your website the same but change up the style quickly with different style sheets. 

The hardest thing for me has been keeping the tags straight (thank goodness it's easy to google stuff!) and not getting frustrated when I can't find my mistakes!  (Missing one closing tag sure can mess a lot up!). I also find Style Sheets slightly confusing but they are getting easier with every sheet!

Here is what I've been working on:

My CPP Webpage

My Labs

My Book Exercises

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Q1: What has been the hardest part of coding for you?

A1: I think the hardest part thus far has been keeping track of all my closing tags, I get excited and code too fast and then I can't figure out my mistakes. I find that if I close my tags before I continue coding and them type between them I miss fewer tags. 

Q1: What do you plan to do with your new found coding skills?

A1: Make a super cool website of course!  I am hoping to make an awesome website that will help teach medical residents how to build a simulation human neck for teaching the surgical airway!  And hopefully build out a few other educational websites--such as a site to host Emergency Medicine FOAM-Ed videos!

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When my husband and I got married the thing that I was most concerned with was the cakes. We had about 20 wedding cakes!  My sister and I made the majority of the cakes, she decorated them all, and I had several awesome friends and family that made cakes as well. It was a tasty affair!