1) After running out of time to have a make-shift blog up on my own site by week 2 of class, I am temporarily throwing in the towel and using blogsplot as a interim blogger for this assignment. Hopefully I'll have the new one up soon.
2) I'm really delighted to see how cohesive all the GHL courses are in unifying themes and ideas. Though there is somewhat of an overlap, I actually prefer it as it reminds one about the tidbits learned in other classes and allows us to not only add more detail to that topic, but helps us to see the bigger picture more easily.
3) I have to mention the TED video featuring Hans Rosling because it was so damn inspiring. Not only did it prove public health information can be disseminated in an entertaining manner, but it also demonstrated the effectiveness of intercalating such knowledge with Internet technology. The TED site itself is something I've never seen in the public health field in terms of its aesthetically pleasing nature and professional use of Flash. Though it requires ALOT of man hours, we need more sites of this caliber to deliver information to the public, especially in the manner of a global database as Hans was talking about. I currently do side work in Internet design and was just completely inspired by the ideas brought by this site. Zipandme.com is an endeavour I was going to begin this summer with a few art buddies just to showcase ideas and expression as an online art house and I was trying to think of a way to intercalate public health on the site. I may start earlier because of this video.
This blog is an online endeavor to archive the thoughts and feelings experienced while taking Emerging Trends in Global Health at USC MPH
6 comments:
Brian - I feel the same way about our classes, I think they have done a great job putting the curriculum together and I am really happy I chose this program for these reasons. Dr. Rosling's presention was amazing, he is such an engaing speaker and his presentation was the perfect merging of technology and imformation. Looking forward to your new page...
Brian, I like your website! Good job, its never too late. This class really brings people together and I really enjoy the interaction, I think by end of the semester we will be a family of “Global Health Promoter” that separation from each other will be a little difficult. I really liked TED video also, I think the graphs were amazing and showed a macro picture of public health concerns in middle east, Africa, European countries and etc… I really enjoy having a different perspective toward a specific topic.
Keep up the good work
Liyan
I agree about the excitement and flash of the TED video. Presentations are always fascinating but the way the data was presented made learning even more exciting (I had to show the video to all my friends, I was that stoked). I wish that visual material like that was available to us, we may have an easier time relaying our points to our resistant audience.
Brian, wasn't that TED video amazing?! I love watching them. It seems every time we get a video from the TED website its so informative. It really helped Hans Rosling (sp?) illustrate his point. I think gapminder can be a great tool for presenttions. It really demonstrates how useful technology can be at getting a point across in a descriptive and attention grabbing way.
great job on your website.
Hi Brian,
I agree with what you're saying about how we have such a great discussion on broad topics in class, and then when we leave we are able to post our thoughts and comments and seee our peers thought in a central forum. It's great because as Dr. Shahi mentioned last night, you put in as much as you want to take out. I am looking forward to seeing you sight develop.
this is a late post but I agree, the more interaction between classmates the more ideas we exchange. this was an excellent idea!
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