SlideRocket Preview
On my new site dedicated to Google Chrome, I have a peek at SlideRocket.com — at least an indication from a week of testing that SlideRocket is working even in beta, even on the beta Chrome.
This is great news for anyone who wants portable, ubiquitous access to a truly powerful combination: a fast stable browser looking out on one of the most powerful presentation apps on the Web. Hold your breath…
Interested in Global Health?
Ron LaPorte and a dedicated team run the SuperCourse, a resource that I have long used and admired. He writes this text in an effort to recruit contributors and users. I am only too happy to reproduce his material here — a worthy cause and a most useful resource for anyone interested in the practice and teaching of public health. Forgive the hyperbole below — the SuperCourse is a major achievement and could use the volunteers that Ron is asking for.
Here is Ron’s spiel…
Question: What is the best way to improve global training?
Answer: Improve lectures.
Question: How do we improve global health lectures?
Answer: Faculty worldwide share their PowerPoint lectures.
Question: Will faculty share lectures?
Answer: Yes, The Supercourse has 45,000 faculty from 174 countries who created a Library of Lectures with 3385. We have over 2300 lectures on global health from 650 teachers in 93 countries.
We were originally funded three times by NASA, and the National Library of Medicine. The Supercourse is like the Carnegie Free library but instead of books we share PowerPoint lectures. It is a place to go to find slides for teaching and learning about Global Health and Prevention. We have the highest global health page ranks for any educational institution. We are the highest ranking global health educational project on the web. Our program consists of:
Open Source: Our Global faculty shares their best, lectures on prevention. The experienced faculty member can beef up their lectures. New instructors reduce preparation time with better lectures. Faculty in developing countries have current prevention information
“Empower” Educators: The Library of Lectures consists of exciting scientific lectures by scholars in prevention. The classroom teacher “takes” them out for free.
Faculty: Thirty Nobel Prize winners, 60 IOM members and other top people contributed lectures by Sept. 1. Gil Omenn, AAAS, Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet, Elias Zerhouni, head of NIH, etc. contributed lectures.
Mirrored Servers and CDs: We have 45 mirrored servers in
Lectures Teaching a Million: In 12 months we taught over 1 million students last year.
JIT Lectures: We created scholarly lectures within days after the Bam Earthquake, Kristina and
Schools of Global Health: We Plan to build Schools of Global Health world wide. Scientists from 26 nations are working to establish small, mini certificate granting courses. The need is there as there are 737 Medical schools and only 71 SPH
Quality Control: There are 8 million PowerPoint lectures on the web, the only lectures and publications involving QC are ours. We are taking a multilayered QC system including peer review, Deming based Statistical Quality control, and Amazon approaches
Global Health Network: The most important aspect of the Supercourse is our 45,000 member expert network where those in say
Productivity: We have published over 170 papers in leading medical journals including Science, Nature, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, PNAS among others. Our web pages have been identified as in the top 100 by PC Magazine. We receive 75-100 million hits a year.
Join the Global Supercourse: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/join.htm
Contact Point: Ron LaPorte, Ph.D., Director, WHO Collaborating centre,
Slidebay Image Search is now Zotero-Ready
Slidebay.com image search already offers an easy interface to look for interesting pictures to insert in your presentations. These images are all licensed under a Creative Commons agreement and are selected especially to be ‘interesting’ and ’safe’, meaning that you will like most of the pictures without scrolling through endless snapshots.
Today Slidebay.com launches a new facility: all images found in its searches are tagged in such a way that they will be detected by Zotero allowing you to collect a basket of image references for easy insertion into your presentations and then for easy insertion of the picture credit list.
If you want to really simplify your picture research for presentations, you should immediately
- install Zotero on your Firefox (you do use Firefox, don’t you?)
- watch the tutorial demo
- then head straight to Slidebay Image Search and start picture harvesting!
Images of Power
At some point you will be needing to show one of the senses of ‘power’ in a presentation. Using the WordNet list of meanings of power for inspiration, I looked up a selection of Creative Commons licensed images on Flickr.com that you might want to consider. And here is the resulting gallery:
I hope you like them — and that you will put links to your favorites or suggestions in the comments below.
Picture credits and links to full size pictures — with our thanks to the generous creators. :
- Photo Id 87431231 by zachstern (2004) entitled “the difference engine“.
- Photo Id 235805526 by ms4jah (2006) entitled “Weather Factory“.
- Photo Id 113218540 by Ian David Blüm (2005) entitled “Powerful Purple“.
- Photo Id 447061508 by Guillermo Ruiz de Loizaga (2007) entitled “On“.
- Photo Id 1129937817 by eir@si (2007) entitled “Aldeyjarfoss“.
- Photo Id 165130233 by yewenyi (2005) entitled “Making Clouds“.
- Photo Id 1470336775 by Mark Payton (2007) entitled “27,000 lbs of Thrust“.
- Photo Id 1553703053 by Pierre Guezennec (2007) entitled “The Power of the Light“.
- Photo Id 984731291 by Juju T (2007) entitled “Telegraph Pole“.
- Photo Id 105288359 by jimfrazier (2006) entitled “Union Pacific 3090 in La Fox, Illnois“.
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