The DoctorÂs World: Socratic Dialogue Gives Way to PowerPoint
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In recent years, grand rounds have become didactic lectures focusing on technical aspects of the newest biomedical research.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.
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David Pogue explores the time-saving qualities of macro software.
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By Heatwole, Joanna  As a video instructor a few summers ago, I met several art professors who had enrolled in the workshop for a weeklong swig of digital instruction in hopes of steadying themselves against the latest wave of technical demands.
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Franklin N. Tessler  awards Keynote â08 four and a half stars in his recent review of the latest version of the presentation application. He reports that this ânew version of Keynote retains an uncluttered interface that makes it easy to put together polished presentations with a minimum of fuss, while introducing features that boost efficiency.â Those include the Format Bar, Picture Frame, Instant Alpha, and the new Smart Build feature, which Tessler says âis another huge time-saver that lets you show a series of images without putting them on separate frames or using builds to display them one-by-one.â
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With more of his slides from the php|works conference, John Coggeshall has posted this listing of his major talks in the past year (or so).
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Boss sets telco against royalty share CISAC BT's Dutch chief executive Ben Verwaayen may be the first keynote speaker to talk entirely in PowerPointâ¢: He's reduced his speeches to a series of motivational slide headings.â¦
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IIT professor Jeff Terry wanted to open up the universe to his students. So he created iCCD, a Mac-based custom application that allows them to capture celestial objects in all their glory.
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Paul Jones will be one of the presenters at this year's php/db|works Conference happening up in Toronto this week and he's offering a teaser of his talk (here's the synopsis) for those interested - "Organizing Your PHP Projects".   Fans of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson" will recognize the kind of talk I have in store, although I don't have the time available to expound in detail the way Hazlitt does. The talk will consist of a one-sentence lesson for you to remember when deciding how to organize your PHP project, whether it's a library, an application, a CMS, or a framework. I'll then explain how to apply the One Lesson in your project, and the various follow-on effects the One Lesson will have on your project organization.   He also jokes that he'll be the only presenter to use references to livestock, Jimmy Hoffa, and Mir as a part of the talk. He's even included a slide of the presentation for even more info.
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Cheap and adaptable, pre-recorded lectures are drawing interest from educators in the US and Central America.
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It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.
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If you weren't able to make it to this year's just passed php|works conference in Atlanta, you missed out on the keynote that Marco Tabini, founder of php|architect gave at the start of the conference. Fortunately, he's posted the video of it on his blog:   What they didn't tell me, however, is that they had arranged for a simple (but, as you will see, very effective) web-based system that allowed members of the audience to submit "captions" to the screen as I was speaking. The results were, of course, hilarious - mostly because they "forgot" to tell me about the idea until a few days after.   Be sure to check out the video of the video for some great one-liners.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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David Wheeler presents an introduction to the Bricolage content management system (CMS).
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Points of trivia that might arise at dinner or over drinks used to lead to a brain-racking long debate. now, hand-held devices help settle disputes. (Look it up!)
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PÃ¡draic Brady continues his series looking at the creation of complex views in the Zend Framework with part six today all about gathering together the thoughts and ideas from the previous articles into a cohesive whole.   Part 6 now takes our previous fragments of theory and attempts to stitch them together into a cohesive whole - a description of a possible end solution. Yes, I know code talks loudly, and we'll get there with an almighty bang in Part 7 (which I promise is no more than a week away). Until then it's more verbosity.   He suggests a list of six terms to help get everyone on the same page when talking about the complex views:   Includes Partials Dispatches Layouts Placeholders Response Segments   Since these terms would mean nothing without proper definitions, he provides a few paragraphs on each explaining what they are and, where necessary, using code to illustrate the point.
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Forget about cumbersome, multifunctional PDAs. The future is an open book. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.