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Convergence

Creating Tomorrow's CLE

Updates, best practices and resources on content creation for the CLE

Collaborate 12.5 Update Available
We are pleased to announce the release of Blackboard Collaborate™ 12.5 web conferencing at UCSF. Collaborate 12.5 sessions are available starting Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The update will be seamless for Collaborate users, just join the Collaborate session as you usually would via the UCSF CLE to...
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The Better Presenter

Learn to be a better presenter at UCSF

News, tips and insights that will help you become a better presenter.

Top 5 Lessons Learned from The Last Lecture
Powerful. Inspirational. Emotionally moving. Those are the words that best describe Dr. Daniel Lowenstein’s “The Last Lecture” presentation, delivered to a packed house in Cole Hall on April 25th. The Last Lecture is an annual lecture series hosted by the UCSF Graduate Division (...
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In Plain Sight

Ways to access, manage, and publish your information

Searching and citation management tips and educational insights for faculty, researchers, clinicians, and students.

Frustrated with PubMed? Finding Too Many Articles? Too Few? There Are Alternatives: Part 1 – Quertle
Many who search in PubMed do not find what they seek. Frustrated by off-topic, too few or too many results they look elsewhere for answers. They know they “should” use PubMed as part of finding biomedical information but can’t seem to make it work for them.  If that sounds familiar, then read on!...
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Mobilized

Tips for your mobile life and work

Tips, reviews, and commentary on mobile apps and devices in higher education and health sciences.

Who Wants a Stylus?
Even before the iPad existed, Steve Job expressed loathing for the stylus. The whole point was to have a simple device that required no accessories to fiddle with or to lose (take that Palm!) Since then, the iPad and other tablets have also proliferated, and they arguably could benefit even more...
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CKM Blog

From the UCSF Center for Knowledge Management (CKM)

Software development practices, website performance, and related topics.

Fostering a Culture of Sharing with Code
Here’s a short talk I gave earlier today.
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