Thursday, July 21, 2011

UGME Curriculum Renewal

This week my delicious links are heavily skewed towards looking at Undergraduate Medical Curriculum documents. I am primarily interested in recent Canadian Universities statements, goals and objectives on their undergraduate medical curriculum. My place of work (POW) is undergoing a curriculum renewal project and I'm one of the cast of "thousands" involved. If you see anything missing from my list can you forward it my way?

Friday, July 01, 2011

This week in delicious

Delicious/cacemlis


Library Innovation of the Year Award Recipient — MLA Portal

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:49 PM PDT

References from Queens

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:47 PM PDT

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Dent JA, Harden RM. Practical guide for medical teachers. 3rd. ed. Toronto ON: Elsevier Ltd. 2009. Chapter by Harden RM. Curriculum planning and development

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:15 PM PDT

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Schulich School of Medicine & Dentisry Vision and Blueprint for the Undergraduate Medical Education Program (2011)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:07 PM PDT

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University of Ottawa: Pre-clerkship & Clerkship objectives

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:01 PM PDT

University of Toronto: Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum Committee

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Toward a new curriculum: Outline of a Strategic Plan for a Revised McGill Undergraduate Curriculum (2010)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:25 PM PDT

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University of Saskatchewan: M.D. Programs Overview

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:16 PM PDT

curriculum

University of Saskatchewan: College of Medicine

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT

University de Sherbrooke: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:02 PM PDT

University of Montreal - Faculty of Medicine

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:01 PM PDT

McGill University: Faculty of Medicine

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Université Laval: Faculté de médecine

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:59 AM PDT

University of Toronto: Faculty of Medicine

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:58 AM PDT

University of Ottawa: Faculty of Medicine

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Friday, May 22, 2009

This week in delicious

25 Useful Social Networking Tools for Librarians - College Degree.com Posted: 29 May 2009 10:09 AM DT

Declan’s Blog » Yahoo Pipes Posted: 28 May 2009 08:50 AM PDT Using String Builder to Augment the Title

Using Regular Expressions With Yahoo Pipes « Brooks Bayne’s Blog Posted: 28 May 2009 08:36 AM PDT

Lifehacker - Yahoo! Pipes master feed update - Aggregation Posted: 28 May 2009 08:03 AM PDT edit each headline title to include the source

Facebook: Cleaner for Greasemonkey Posted: 28 May 2009 07:14 AM PDT

Add PubMed to your Web site. Posted: 27 May 2009 01:06 PM PDT

Creating a Web Link to the Entrez Databases -- Web Link Help -- NCBI Bookshelf Posted: 27 May 2009 01:04 PM PDT PubMed

HTML Break the Habit - HTML Code Tutorial Posted: 27 May 2009 12:43 PM PDT

Minty Boost! - USB charger for your gadgets Posted: 27 May 2009 10:48 AM PDT

Preparing an Emergency Kit in Plain English - Common Craft Posted: 27 May 2009 07:26 AM PDT

Useful Yahoo!Pipes Help Pages

Regular Expressions in Yahoo!Pipes - Official

YahooPipesRegex - Kiesler phpWebsite consulting

Lifehacker - Yahoo! Pipes master feed update - Aggregation

Yahoo Pipes Tutorial for Feed Mixing >> Slaw

Disruptive Conversations: Yahoo!Pipes and its dating problem... (and a failure of RSS standardization)

Lifehacker - Geek to Live: Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes - Feature

CHLA-ABSC 2009 RSS Feed Posted: 25 May 2009 09:56 AM PDT

MSpace at the University of Manitoba Posted: 25 May 2009 08:35 AM PDT MSpace is the University of Manitoba's institutional repository, dedicated to collecting, storing, preserving and making accessible digital versions of the intellectual output of UM community members. An institutional repository like MSpace can include items such as faculty publications; theses; learning objects; research, conference and working papers; technical reports; images; audio and video files; datasets and computer programs.

Feed My Inbox ~ RSS to Email ~ Feed to Email Posted: 25 May 2009 08:09 AM PDT

Encode / Decode HTML Entities - Centricle Posted: 25 May 2009 07:37 AM PDT Encode HTML code so that you can display it in your blog post. Copy in your HTML code and then click encode.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Feedburner/ WORD oddity

Okay, a colleague of mine came to me and asked me why Feedburner wouldn't burn her Twitter feed when the feed was perfectly valid.

For those of you who don't know Feedburner is a nifty tool that you can use to add functionality to your blog, twitter etc. RSS feed. With Feedburner you can get statistics from how many people are using your feed, what browser they are using and where in the world they are coming from. In addition you can have your subscribers consume your feed via e-mail if they prefer. Not every one is comfortable with the concept of a feed reader YET.

But back to my colleague's problem. I poked around Feedburners Groups for assistance and ran across this little gem "FeedBurner won't accept my feed, or it did at first but has stopped updating. What's wrong?"

The up shot of it is that if you copy and paste your twitter posting from WORD or a WebSite into Twitter you may end up unknowingly copying some XML formatting tags that Feedburner doesn't like in its feeds. These tags are:

<o:p>(some text)</o:p>

Feedburner looks at this and doesn't recognize the feed as a valid feed even though it's own recommended feed validators say that the feed is valid. So what's the solution?

"If you still want to use content found in Office applications, a common trick for removing extraneous code is to "clean" copied text by pasting it into a plain text editor, such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac) and the copying the newly cleaned text before pasting it into your blogging application. "

This is a little clunky but it works. My colleague now has a feed that is functioning nicely in Feedburner.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Delicious findings

Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags

Posted: 13 May 2009 09:03 AM PDT

City of Winnipeg - Health and Social Services - Google Maps

Posted: 15 May 2009 06:57 AM PDT

Shelter, clothing, food and help

Saving Large Scale Google Maps Video

Posted: 14 May 2009 08:12 PM PDT

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Twitter language/short cuts anyone?

I am new to Twitter and have been wondering what all the @, # and short forms mean. I had thought that people were being rude but the friends/organizations that I am following just don't seem to be the type, so I started looking for more information. The Twitter Support site was sort of useful under the section "Fun Stuff" and gave me this information.

@ directs a twitter at another person, and causes your twitter to save in their "replies" tab. Example: @cacemlis You're too cool!

D username + message sends a person a private message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive. Example: d cacemlis where do you want the chocolate delivered?

WHOIS username retrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter. It opens very quickly and closes very quickly so anyone who's been wordy in their profile might make it challenging. Example: whois cacemlis

GET username retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person. Example: get cacemlis

NUDGE username reminds a friend to update by asking what they're doing on your behalf. Something you may have to do to me on a regular basis! Example: nudge cacemlis

FAV username marks a person's last twitter as a favorite. (hint: reply to any update with FAV to mark it as a favorite if you're receiving it in real time) Example: fav cacemlis

STATS this command returns your number of followers, how many people you're following, and which words you're tracking. This basically gives you the same information you see in your right hand menu in Twitter so I'm not too sure how this would be useful.

INVITE phone number will send an SMS invite to a friend's mobile phone. Example: Invite 415 555 1212

From Butterscotch's "Twitter Language and other power user tips" I learned...

RT is a retweet and means that someone is reposting a message that someone else sent but that is being reposted. Example: RT @cacemlis Love Bernard Callebaut Chocolate! It seems to me that in this instance RT is usually followed somewhere in the tweet by the @username to provide credit and to let the original user know that they are being quoted.

OH preceding a post is accepted to mean that you're letting people know something funny or interesting that you overheard and not posting an original thought. Example: OH "To Tweet or not to Tweet"

# "Hash tags" are keywords preceded with the # symbol. Example: #manitoba

I wasn't really clear on how these should be used and I discovered a wonderful explanation on the Twitter Fan Wiki page "Hashtags". These keywords are used to identify common themes/memes in Twitter. You can use the Twitter Search to look for these keywords. Try "#nhl #winnipeg OR #jets" in the search window if you are a Winnipeger looking to bring an NHL franchise team back home. You get the idea.

Is there any others I should know about?

Delicious meanderings

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Social Bookmarking in Libraries: Simply del.icio.us

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Presentation given at SLA/MLA Prairie Partnerships Conference 2008 in Regina, SK on May 1, 2008.