Podcast: Webinar Tools and Tips
Webinars are a great tool for delivering and recording online education sessions for emergency responders. EPS411 uses webinars to demonstrate software processes, show our product offerings to prospective clients and teach sessions for PIOSocialMediaTraining.com and EMSBootCamp.com. Last week I spent about 30 minutes with my friend Jim Kukral discussing: Software options to use for Webinars Webinar promotion Different uses for Webinar including training, sales and education

Medical Math: Live Online EMS Education
” Medical Math – Get it Right Every Time “ Date : November 23rd 2009 Time: 1400 hours EST. This session will target Medical Math, i.e. Drug Calculations. Special guest speaker Buck Feris is an EMS educator that has years of experience helping students who struggle with drug calculations. Several years ago he did some research on the origins of the drug calculation formula and found that it was based on a very simple concept in chemistry called “dimensional analysis.&

Webinar Best Practices
I am getting lots of questions from service and product vendors, education organizations, and membership associations about planning and delivering webinars in 2010. Questions include which platform to us, how often to deliver, how long the session should last, and how to include interaction. Like any elearning project content is king. An audience will tolerate lots of other technical and design problems if the content is good and the speaker is credible. Start your webinar project with a focus on the goals and objectives for the content you want to deliver. Then pick the platform, time length, and interactions best suited for the goals and objectives. EPS411 reader Darlene

Video: EMSEduCast – the podcast by and for EMS educators
In this video I describe the purpose and format of the only podcast by and for EMS educators. Each week me and my terrific co-hosts Buck Feris, Rob Theriault and Chris Montera discuss issues, resources, and tips for EMS educators with guest experts from around the world. The podcast is recorded using a Skype conference call and the weekly recording is broadcast live, http://emseducast.com/live to listen and participate in live shows. Listen to the most recent EMSEducCast shows. ParamedicTV is powered by EMS1.com

Video: Trends in Online Education for Emergency Responders
In this video I describe discusses emerging trends in elearning. These trends are shaping the availability of elearning, the cost of elearning, and the creation of elearning content by subject matter experts.This video was recorded at the 2009 National Association of EMS Educators Symposium. In the comments area share your thoughts on emerging trends in online education for emergency responders. I discuss these trends and more in my 2009 EMS Expo presentations. ParamedicTV is powered by EMS1.com