Comments on: FRC Final: Op-Ed http://www.anatomytrains.com/blogs/tom-myers/2009/11/03/426 Visit Tom's personal blog at: http://tomyers.wordpress.com/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Phil Earnhardt http://www.anatomytrains.com/blogs/tom-myers/2009/11/03/426/comment-page-1#comment-267 Phil Earnhardt Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:35:05 +0000 http://www.anatomytrains.com/blogs/?p=426#comment-267 Hi, Tom. Carrie and I discussed ignite-style presentations in the anatomytrains.com forum a while back; I don't know if anyone on your faculty has followed through on them. I think they're a great way for newbies to learn about how to present. I've done a half-dozen of them over the past year, and they have helped immensely. I'm presenting at the mothership of formal Ignites, igniteportland.com, Thursday of this week and can't wait! Many of today's youngsters learn Powerpoint (or Keynote on the Mac) presentations as an integral component of their secondary education. Those folks have shed the awkwardness that comes with the format, but it's something the rest of us can do as adults. I recommend getting some experience organizing this format so you can advise others if it's a useful thing for them to do. The nice part about rapid-presentation formats is that they're rapid! Portland runs through 10 presentations with a 30-second pause between each -- you get through that block in just under 55 minutes. For instruction that has pauses over months, I think rapid presentations would be a great way for students to get re-acquainted and re-engaged with each other. Students who volunteer to prepare a presentation will have a huge benefit in dealing with the material they present. The constraints of this format remind me of Feldenkrais and how well humans master skills while under constraint. Do the scientists participating in the FRC have any recommendations how clinicians should approach and think about science? I really like the approach of The Teaching Company (teach12.com) in its presentation of science. Viewing a course of two from there may be a good place for clinicians to see how scientists think. I particularly love Strogatz's "Chaos" course -- and believe that research by these applied biologists could bear fruit into structural research in the future. Hi, Tom. Carrie and I discussed ignite-style presentations in the anatomytrains.com forum a while back; I don’t know if anyone on your faculty has followed through on them.

I think they’re a great way for newbies to learn about how to present. I’ve done a half-dozen of them over the past year, and they have helped immensely. I’m presenting at the mothership of formal Ignites, igniteportland.com, Thursday of this week and can’t wait!

Many of today’s youngsters learn Powerpoint (or Keynote on the Mac) presentations as an integral component of their secondary education. Those folks have shed the awkwardness that comes with the format, but it’s something the rest of us can do as adults.

I recommend getting some experience organizing this format so you can advise others if it’s a useful thing for them to do. The nice part about rapid-presentation formats is that they’re rapid! Portland runs through 10 presentations with a 30-second pause between each — you get through that block in just under 55 minutes.

For instruction that has pauses over months, I think rapid presentations would be a great way for students to get re-acquainted and re-engaged with each other. Students who volunteer to prepare a presentation will have a huge benefit in dealing with the material they present. The constraints of this format remind me of Feldenkrais and how well humans master skills while under constraint.

Do the scientists participating in the FRC have any recommendations how clinicians should approach and think about science? I really like the approach of The Teaching Company (teach12.com) in its presentation of science. Viewing a course of two from there may be a good place for clinicians to see how scientists think. I particularly love Strogatz’s “Chaos” course — and believe that research by these applied biologists could bear fruit into structural research in the future.

]]> By: Steven Capobianco http://www.anatomytrains.com/blogs/tom-myers/2009/11/03/426/comment-page-1#comment-265 Steven Capobianco Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:04:39 +0000 http://www.anatomytrains.com/blogs/?p=426#comment-265 Well said Tom. I especially was interested in your discussion about certain practitioner's approach to learning. We should be aware of content validity in any study we read, but also appreciate the advancement in knowledge gained from critical thinkers, like yourself. Thanks. Well said Tom. I especially was interested in your discussion about certain practitioner’s approach to learning. We should be aware of content validity in any study we read, but also appreciate the advancement in knowledge gained from critical thinkers, like yourself.
Thanks.

]]> By: Whitney Lowe http://www.anatomytrains.com/blogs/tom-myers/2009/11/03/426/comment-page-1#comment-264 Whitney Lowe Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:06:12 +0000 http://www.anatomytrains.com/blogs/?p=426#comment-264 Tom: Thanks so much for these wonderful reports. For those of us that were unable to make it this year you have done a fantastic job of giving us a perspective and vision of what the event was like. I am particularly appreciative of your keen analysis of the need for greater reflection amongst all the participants for what could make this a much more informative and valuable venue in the future. Thanks, as always, for being a great torch! Whitney Tom:
Thanks so much for these wonderful reports. For those of us that were unable to make it this year you have done a fantastic job of giving us a perspective and vision of what the event was like. I am particularly appreciative of your keen analysis of the need for greater reflection amongst all the participants for what could make this a much more informative and valuable venue in the future. Thanks, as always, for being a great torch!

Whitney

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