- Podcasting from Yale medical library-

Yale medical library published an interesting study-cum-project-cum-guide for use of screencasts and podcasts by medical learners.

The study finds many more off-campus users of the medical podcasts and videos than on-campus users. Not surprisingly, the cost benefits were very obvious. What i found particularly arresting was the suggestion of using only 1 to 3 minute long videos for teaching purposes. I would have thought that Ten minute videos would prove very effective. But apparently, yale students have difficulty viewing high quality content for more than a couple of minutes!!

See this slideshow for the complete report.

Screencasting and Podcasting: Experience of the Yale Medical Library

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–Using Social media–

Heres a good starfish created by Darren Barefoot ( and generously provided under a creative commons license). I am already using most of them. You can have a look at a few of my networks and groups in the widgets table on the right which is provided via MyBlogLog.com ( a yahoo service).

My only point to make here is that its all too disjointed. Everything,,,,the content, the networks, the relationships online, are all without structure.

We need to get busy using all these services better and in a specific, goal oriented method instead of just going gaga over the facilities and possibilities of social media networking.

Lets USE them.

Read about specific facilities/applications here.