Is psychiatry committing 'professional suicide'? - CNN.com

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">British psychiatrist and Big Pharma gadfly David Healy is so controversial amongst his colleagues that some have tried to have his medical license revoked — but there he was, speaking at the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) second largest annual meeting at a well-attended session on conflicts of interest.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"It's a miracle that I was asked along to give a talk [here], and I'm extremely grateful," Healy said.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">His disquisition was perhaps less humble.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Arguing that his profession is "committing professional suicide" by failing to address its dangerously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, he likened psychiatry's attitude toward its faltering legitimacy to the Vatican's widely derided response to its child-sex-abuse scandal by priests — essentially that psychiatry is brushing off justifiable concerns as hype instead of dealing with the source of the problem.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Few experts believe that psychiatry's relationship with the drug industry is healthy. While several speakers at the session pointed out that other specialties are similarly entangled with industry, "everyone does it" is generally not a valid defense where conflicts of interest are concerned.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">The conflicts throughout medicine — not just in psychiatry — are clear. In 2004 alone, pharmaceutical companies spent about $58 billion on marketing, 87% of which was aimed squarely at the roughly 800,000 Americans with the power to prescribe drugs.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The money was spent mainly on free drug samples and sales visits to doctors' offices; studies find that both free samples and sales calls increase prescribing of brand-name drugs and raise medical costs without improving care.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Moreover, nearly half of all continuing medical-education classes are sponsored by industry. By their third year of medical school, 94% of psychiatrists in training have already accepted a "small noneducational gift or lunch" from a drug company, according to Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a past president of the APA and director of Columbia University's Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry, who spoke on the panel with Healy.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">And while only 34% psychiatrists believe that receiving food or gifts affects their own prescribing patterns, 53% believe that it influences that of their colleagues, according to a study cited by Appelbaum. Research shows that this type of thinking —</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Everyone else is prone to biases and social factors, but not me!" — is common and confounds attempts to address conflicts. "At least some of our colleagues are wrong," Appelbaum said drily of the study.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Healy's jeremiad was more severe and sharply worded, but it seemed to be well received by the psychiatrists assembled in the audience. Many even asked questions that suggested they too were troubled by the status quo.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"I'm going to argue that we need you to be biased. We want you to be biased by treatments that work," Healy told his colleagues. "I don't mind if you're my doctor and you've given talks for industry. My concern is not that you've been paid by industry, but that you've been fooled by industry. The key conflict is whether people are hiding data from you."</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Healy went on to discuss how drug companies have repeatedly concealed important information about the risks of their medications, whether by hiring ghostwriters to spin the results of scientific studies and then getting renowned experts to put their names on the published papers; by employing tricks in clinical trials like using inadequate doses of comparison medications to make the company's own drug look better; or by simply keeping unfavorable data out of the public domain.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Healy himself has also been targeted directly by drug companies that haven't been happy with his critiques. In fact, he's widely believed to have lost an academic job offer at the University of Toronto as a result of one such critical lecture.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At the session on Thursday, one slide in his presentation contained information he sought via a Freedom of Information Act request detailing drugmaker Eli Lilly's strategy for shutting Healy down. To counter his public insistence that drug companies reveal hidden drug data, Eli Lilly proposed doing things like planting confederates in the audience of his presentations to ask questions that support industry's view.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Healy also described how in his own attempts to publish formerly hidden data — which all now reside in the public domain — he encountered legal issues with journals, which ultimately resulted in rejection of publication. The clinical-trial data in question in this case showed a greater risk of suicidal acts associated with antidepressants than had previously been revealed.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Healy also referenced hidden data from trials of the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"None of them mentioned [that the drug could cause] <a href="http://topics.time.com/diabetes/" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); outline: 0px; ">diabetes</a> or [had] the highest suicide rate in clinical-trial history," he said.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Although drug companies are now required by medical journals to register all of their clinical trials with the National Institutes of Health if they wish to publish them — including those that never end up being published — this is not a legal requirement. They can still hide relevant data from the Food and Drug Administration by not disclosing trials that they never attempt to submit to a journal.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Healy noted further that when data surfaced showing a link between antidepressant use and risk of suicide in children, the APA issued a statement proclaiming that "we believe that antidepressants save lives."</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"What I believe they should have said is that the APA believes that psychiatrists can save lives because it takes expertise to manage the risks of risky pills," he said; if psychiatrists' only role were to dole out drugs, then less trained physician's assistants could easily replace them, he noted.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">But when a questioner, claiming himself "speechless" in the face of Healy's arguments, asked whether he should just stop prescribing antidepressants, Healy said no. Healy prescribes them himself, but believes that the role of the doctor is to manage risks, not view drugs as harmless. "Medical treatment is poison, and the art of medicine is trying to find the right dose," he said.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As for what could be done to disentangle medicine from industry, Healy wasn't entirely pessimistic.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"The key issue in the short term is access to data. We have to insist on that," he said. "We let industry come to our meetings and let them talk in our programs. I don't think it's huge problem that they get paid. The big problem is that if you ask for data, they can't give it to you. That's not science, that's marketing masquerading as science."</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But what of the issue of doctors being visited by paid-industry types — or being paid by industry themselves? The panel's organizer, Dr. Daniel Carlat, director of the Pew Prescription Project, noted a new disclosure law, passed as part of President Obama's health-reform bill in 2010.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Under the legislation, drug companies must reveal which doctors have taken any payment or gift from them worth more than $10, and describe the exact amounts taken and the purpose for them on a publicly available website. (Unfortunately that website will not be up and running until 2014 at the earliest.) All of the panelists agreed, however, that while public disclosure is good, it is not enough.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dr. Roy Perlis, who heads the Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, cited research showing that disclosure can actually backfire in unexpected ways. In one study, for example, people were asked to estimate the number of coins in a jar and provided an "adviser" to help them guess. Unbeknownst to them, the adviser had been paid to try to push people to make higher estimates than they otherwise might.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">In one condition of the trial, participants were told in advance that the adviser had this bias, but that made matters worse. Under this circumstance, the adviser encouraged participants to make even higher estimates than in the situation without disclosure.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"There are two different mechanisms" to explain the phenomenon, says Perlis. "One is strategic exaggeration: 'I know you're going to discount what I say, so I deliberately will be more effusive and tell you a higher number.' The other is so-called moral licensing: 'I've disclosed my conflict, therefore I'm allowed to be biased.' This very thing may well also play out when disclosing conflicts of interest in medicine."</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Maran Woolston, a woman with multiple sclerosis, also spoke on the panel about how betrayed she felt when she learned her doctor had referred much of her care to a drug-company subsidiary, but had not revealed it to her — and had also taken $300,000 in funding from various drugmakers.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"In my opinion, transparency isn't a silver bullet," she said. 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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; " class=""><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">If you're going to pursue an elusive killer, you sometimes have to get creative.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">A pioneering study into malaria transmission in Kenya, using data gleaned from the cell phones of nearly 15 million people, has given scientists new clues into how the deadly disease spreads.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">By tracking the population's movement over a year using cell phone data and comparing it with detailed information on malaria infection rates across the country, the study reveals how human travel contributes to the disease's spread.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">The study, led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health and seven other institutions, could inform how governments -- particularly in sub-Saharan Africa -- act in future to control the disease's spread. Malaria deaths are concentrated in that part of the continent.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Published in the journal Science on Thursday, the study, "Quantifying the impact of human mobility on malaria," gives key insights into a disease that kills a child a minute in Africa, according to the World Health Organization.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">"This is the first time that such a massive amount of cell phone data -- from millions of individuals over the course of a year -- has been used, together with detailed infectious disease data, to measure human mobility and understand how a disease is spreading," said senior author Caroline Buckee, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Since the disease is passed on to humans by mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite, the movement of infected people into areas of lower incidence is an important factor.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Between June 2008 and June 2009, lead author Amy Wesolowski, a Carnegie-Mellon doctoral student, and her team mapped every call or text made by 14,816,521 Kenyan mobile phone subscribers to one of 11,920 cell towers in 692 different settlements.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">This allowed them to follow the destination and duration of each trip made from the cell phone user's primary place of residence.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Using detailed data from a malaria prevalence map for 2009, drawn up by the Kenya Medical Research Institute and the Malaria Atlas Project, the researchers determined that malaria largely emanates from western Kenya's Lake Victoria region and spreads east, chiefly toward the capital, Nairobi.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">The team "found that a surprisingly large fraction of 'imported' infections — that is, infections that are carried by people moving from one place to another — wind up in Nairobi, with infected residents returning there after journeys to spots such as Lake Victoria or the coast," the news release says.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">This may lead to an increased risk of local transmission within Nairobi and its surrounding areas, despite the lower number of mosquitoes, or "malaria vectors," in urban areas.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">The research suggests that efforts to control malaria could benefit from a focus on "source" areas where incidence is high, rather than on areas where fewer people are infected. Human travel patterns mean the parasite is likely repeatedly to be carried back to areas where it has been almost eliminated.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">The study advises that on a very local scale, "hot spots of transmission can be targeted by indoor residual spraying, vector habitat removal, insecticides, drug administration, and bed-net use."</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">But attempts to control transmission by targeting human travel between regions "will be completely different from those that concentrate on local transmission hot spots, focusing on communicating risks to travelers to alter their behaviors, restricting travel patterns, and/or conducting routine surveillance in high-risk areas."</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">This could mean encouraging people from areas of high prevalence to use insecticide-treated bed nets when traveling to areas of lower malaria incidence to avoid bringing the parasite with them.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">It also advises visitors to areas such as Lake Victoria to take greater care not to become infected before their return home.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Wesolowski acknowledges certain limitations such as following only cell phone users in areas where there are cell towers and inability to track people's cross-border movements.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">However, the importance of such research into one of the world's largest preventable causes of death should not be underestimated.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">There were about 216 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2010 and about 655,000 deaths from the disease that year, according to the World Health Organization.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Understanding and preventing the disease's spread from areas of high incidence is a key weapon in the fight against malaria.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">The innovative research could also point the way for other studies into infectious diseases, helped by ever growing rates of cell phone usage worldwide, and particularly in the developing world.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">"As mobile phone data sets become increasingly available and representative of entire populations, we anticipate that studies like the one we present here will become common for understanding a range of different infectious diseases, as well as for gaining greater insight into human behavior on a population level," the study's authors say.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; line-height: 19px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">The WHO's 2011 world malaria report shows that concerted efforts to tackle the disease can make a difference, with death rates down by more than 25% globally since 2000.</div></div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/13/health/kenya-malaria/index.html" class="">http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/13/health/kenya-malaria/index.html</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; 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Keeping an eye on the street

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Creature habits.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bones sits up on the front window and makes sure that nothing untoward goes on in the street. He sits up here and looks out at nothing for hours on end. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhv0UlH3BwaE__ftclFGwDHkW3sJlsN8SQ4m1nX3hXo0MK6VoCdVB-w-7TxbfxpoCoG26YAb6AoLh6lKLkfV7KzrSgyXI4261WsmOsweXB41ObRladQMBhbPKRK8E5ULndVB3q_zXK6sa/s1600/IMG_2209%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhv0UlH3BwaE__ftclFGwDHkW3sJlsN8SQ4m1nX3hXo0MK6VoCdVB-w-7TxbfxpoCoG26YAb6AoLh6lKLkfV7KzrSgyXI4261WsmOsweXB41ObRladQMBhbPKRK8E5ULndVB3q_zXK6sa/s320/IMG_2209%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Here Bones is watching me eat a slice of chocolate cake  - he wants to make sure that I don't drop any crumbs but if I do he is right there to clean up!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2MWTZ75uHPJYNao4YxGc2KSgDMKlxgjvi58o77zNW-7RjyQCmtYYBvhDS2YXPcSzRS1AsI46oxKpWGzu_J3___cQ1vAvfxA0kygOWfeK7AicA92zIFlDWuEZMcZWNx95qhrTbLPF0mJf/s1600/IMG_2210%5B1%5D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2MWTZ75uHPJYNao4YxGc2KSgDMKlxgjvi58o77zNW-7RjyQCmtYYBvhDS2YXPcSzRS1AsI46oxKpWGzu_J3___cQ1vAvfxA0kygOWfeK7AicA92zIFlDWuEZMcZWNx95qhrTbLPF0mJf/s320/IMG_2210%5B1%5D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;">I like the way the light under the bench seat illuminates him.</span>

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Report back on the fantastic Teachmeet in East London 11 Sept 2012

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">  <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLjobewBHP67vcMleS96hmOEi-hRr3HRWJePKZm6p2oFyClYheAr1_9mZp-qLURtLZeE0blg-unyueiSywmoqRsFcJiGGa8uObqeTb3KVrlpRuxs5CzWulMUScQVP8SbCsYEss5ez17k/s1600-h/image_thumb36%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image_thumb36" border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinq3L6-mCKM4y0_eUYvxBfIjBlW60KvVg3Qo6AQrsEoAhkG_a8BhWONb2wQFCEL7KvoXXDX2_9BDgl7dg7bt7i-G6DULaEahsIdNZ3IAUkoB_Fc9JOC7v1a8b64jH98_xpFZqG6kd8R8E/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image_thumb36" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The East London TeachMeet logo</td></tr></tbody></table><i>Submitted by Fiona Beal  </i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In September I had the HUGE privilege of flying up to East London to attend the first TeachMeet in the Eastern Cape. I was invited by two schools, Stirling Primary and Clarendon Primary. Whatever one may hear about education in the Eastern Cape, these two schools are beacons of light providing an excellent education for their students. I was taken on a tour of the schools which left me quite amazed. The TeachMeet was organised by three energetic teachers Claire Dean from Stirling Primary, Liesel Kruger from Stirling Primary and Sharon Cox from Clarendon Primary, and it was hosted at Stirling Primary this time around. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="133"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNGbssbXOiMY76-nDbpBNrUNYqV5UFoO3S2HYCbldBAz29TD8Gfnxma1urDOv9vtGUfAlx5G2R9r2t3gmXPaPeA67EzV-6OHAVdBnQzMTmFqxftDzhyphenhyphenw8biAtj2CIhVgFGgFi4or-dp0/s1600-h/DSCF0455%25255B4%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="DSCF0455" border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZBCO0kFxJRi9UjAXo2_lJ6SVws3J_WmE-z6Hp1vMXLWFmJADhPl0ewE_w9JcZnK0u-qulxgseLuEr_13MCr3drqtWZTl2MZ35SwNV46fk6VPDutv9rDR104cwHK0HohhA7nyKHzXWs0/?imgmax=800" title="DSCF0455" width="165" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claire Dean</td></tr></tbody></table></td> <td valign="top" width="133"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVqAbwGshrgxYU9Flntbj5UHAQyokFSJBpvmXT13HaHEEj-NhQdlE8j-zcJxJJhQz6WCOymyLShIeMuoCHhZZgNJUKpJvENvUu9FuAVOJbqo-iTPcnhiDduQxIG50iQCO1cE_W8ofRwA8/s1600-h/DSCF0495%25255B4%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="DSCF0495" border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOGTyDGUTgU8i5fBgSpDIyI8c0Q7odWg65emDreQ_3nk0aGKW6g0cOU4GyTQCyhyjWbqSjPJO72qmYMjKNXTmVjbj55Z-ukl6T6cvaGkWWTrspeUgA8JvkruaVczf8baAR6B7oN7UV7n0/?imgmax=800" title="DSCF0495" width="172" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sharon Cox</td></tr></tbody></table></td> <td valign="top" width="133"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MF9Wu_sPVsdNQcrNm2cKvNe_AR7o0n0ufvzGv8jps0dAL2LKo4XMM7glJBaT5DuguzcMlQaLuiNmJKSayoPJQtBbj23-UNqsMPzksuMIldWxvEI16TqKkWWGT17Sil3E0EC4qIs_q3c/s1600-h/DSCF0476%25255B5%25255D.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="DSCF0476" border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszwQazLLr1xNIK5VD8toICUSPSH_VjVzsHacCe6d_0E-Vu0sgO5SaLdCCOFkJ0_4Q5fUFoDZ0nYMz8LrtX4GGw33dppk3qDbQvknN7_ZLrhIU9UiN5qZ_GET78fbj2wd2EpKfmBG98Ts/?imgmax=800" title="DSCF0476" width="162" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liesel Kruger</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Personally, I don’t think there’s much that can equal the professional development opportunity and learning that takes place at a TeachMeet. Teachers from around the community share on best practise in technology integration with one another in short 3 minute presentations, and they also make their presentation available for others to have using Dropbox. Not only that, but networking opportunities emerge and teachers can contact one another with any queries. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqC1pa_kDvenhd_AFuL9bYVw8NqytRdrj5VTAq5qGZClX-aEWRUbzuBbmJB39w0djfloIxmSS2ilDZMyrf_Fhzt8vIkX5fC8R08uC5-6IrMWnYyFdoGLNmGMgF_FcaDQlj3y8L41fbh4/s1600-h/image%25255B6%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIb-E2Pi8fPBb7s2I_WZnNo4e2qt4KvRezGVMmsTqJ0iM-xYOc8MF1LDuKDaGB2z1DT0jyhsuhodD6Xeo8pGgAs4nQaph_-1pxpGl13MsABvrvfC5eQJvSOPqUCMoXXhZCjcXveoHaVNk/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All the presenters (except for Abrie Pepl<span style="font-size: x-small;">e</span>r and Wesley Renton) </span></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What was shared at the TeachMeet? </b></span></span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, what was shared? Let me give you an insight. (By the way I’ll mostly share the second slide of ech presentation below as the first slide was the template cover) </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) </span><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Sharon Cox</span></u></b> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After Claire Dean from Stirling had welcomed<span style="font-size: small;"> all</span> the attendees and explained how TeachMeets work Sharon Cox from Clarendon encouraged everyone to follow and tweet about the event using Twitter and the assigned hashtag for the afternoon. Sharon was responsible for the Twitter feed for the afternoon (the Storify tweet archive of all the tweets can be viewed at the end of this post). </span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6yxtV3y92uHgdY9YcR73L96vRpyjDLjYjroWdZnQFKioqPUN2ACEVb9MF-rfQlIpqFB_zY5g01Si4XldQYj9WXtCKuT3hMnhYzIh2_fxcp2hdpS86C4zR33GCe53FYAkYROm0GUSuVGs/s1600-h/image13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixbmXZwOMHqU__10bURgNWdgpOMbe9XBoq1Hlo0JVgFwvyqC25WxXbHVeUioy_rGEQwXzV3MwqYt8N5qL5rl7pL2-KJWndd0Xd_2qpRcuNV5o1wGSjM99-taL56XsG9yR8hGvgw8q-kVU/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="185" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2) <b><u>Les McGregor</u></b> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">(Clickers)</span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Les, who is from Selborne College in East London, shared on <i>Clicker Technology</i>. He had seen them and heard about clickers many times at Conferences and his school decided to invest in a set. Les uses them for pre-assessment, mid topic and post-assessment and finds that the students are engaged, and are 70% more likely to participate when using Clickers because of their anonymity when giving feedback. Les demonstrated the use of Clickers to us and we had a lot of fun responding. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLb9KSp5ymi7QpUGMlDph6lLQIGEVHuTKsQYnUFQNuatn37nRE9tswMTMIHpIkmaTyzRtOjux0X227YCoBZCo4gBEslJicYZ8Uq_yCm_8cbEDBWMJqTzER2y25BB7lr6cDnYWcIf4t-M/s1600-h/EL-TeechMeet-152.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzk8QL8QwUNBiBohY_C89WY4ESral8V_o108684e6wzSB3B_rVaCq7HN61V8DB9vagXNimoA55jk_DRMcXQz9-AxOT0hto6Jb-YHrjy6HD5xqczxuqQZz1fl8tLKDYdL5C_ReRuNeLFqI/?imgmax=800" title="" width="145" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtOpzcsLaXbv3p9xkWtBFx7pgp7aPM21GMgCUqSHi94h7w7GIGeRiNsgppbPBQdVfLgULILBnxxfV7-rbFyGJR-whK5QYZ1cKAMwLx2FADewzVwWfXwrRe8-iAC9_UrooFRrbgG00R2Sg/s1600-h/image3.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzjAAx48wdi_lNc1GdWgYfR6qUZAPk-93rszZKXVwIFPD1rz0h7wiRoHglv3iXs-ab2LcS-MQyQdjzjMfm2AV75lzfUHAuc6eG-PaKKqvJCBc8TcpzmzsZPMfoFX_0uOw74N1GnE8oFjU/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="164" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UhpfqAanSRyAnG_XBI5x2eMIheCdQzXbf8n6a6SAy1_YHlsJx6MEsiorvNCNw9Dxaq43EKmLmYAzq_Olwl3yixZ5C9tQw3W0vlKQAkX39en2f8F5e9EAmOTvSCkd2h0tr8RHTjGDRmc/s1600-h/image%25255B59%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdIX4RVfezA_TeRhUKcEHc2UXLspI4ZPIz8D8bPCKHqf5M5zXlmlTdrcaA0f-6qD1vqHGW35Iet8zGfeSp-GmHJtlupCsEjr0JN7Oi5VXQ1seFzIvXxwdA1zGT0lFmju_cKCGi97ySeo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="164" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3) <b><u>Claire Dean</u></b> <b>(Dropbox)</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Claire, from Stirling Primary, was one of the organisers. She shared on Dropbox (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/">https://www.dropbox.com/</a>) and<u> </u>how it all works. Dropbox is a must for every teacher. Among other things it allows you to access your files on any computer from a web browser, syncs your Dropbox folders on all your chosen computers and allows you to share your files or folders with others. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 579px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="160"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtL28RQupHZiXc7itr1F7ye2J5jSsJ4vCCQD1zLDUDlBJzUYJWGseZnoZ4WqYOnG0gsKSiDU16AekxnFP96ZLj2WIFRm4CeMdwSJR99aTnndLb9zF4SOMhjlirT2V5HhmJInwY0VIJYiE/s1600-h/image9.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMT_coef_iuflj1XS04bqUyYfFzn-t39VR0-qTL34xgUybn6mabhI_pVoTwBmUMhw70BfxvnFK3kmgvTTCi2FB4vY6DBxY2Vfhxwv7x3oMb6iNhgctwj2edhlWn_8OlQJXvS8vr9wLMY/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="137" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="10"></td> <td valign="top" width="164"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVxqAdHCgas-kL7OdYJaarIAwhhENnx-LlesQKrezXTiPmMxEbVoIQSIMemHb5mVoJUmHvDqOtnpcuUaKHPsAJErnt5D14QASjolrCObFc-MbBZcAQUioXZRrWS3O9lG__xNfRh3RoYA/s1600-h/image10.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihKIl4ZrPcfwbU5zLXz9zx6-qW0ygCXxtbZ8uK23kUKgY9kmRjQe17gHxZmugohDwq1uMghqLukmleLFBTdHob8DVKDFTJtJSNf41ECdhL5INZ-YZyE8VpB1YiwJ_4hR_ig6PXy_TTOU/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="154" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="246"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__haeMBI1ZRNEjMZzT3eTLX83aj8n9S1FOd279am0IM3z61uUms-BalBmgylZVwFzyXFYudK8g9pcmfo7CC88r1ibQDFVNS6hDXD_karLWBz4FCUfijK1mIDtJDAXzdapKoMK6xCJ_30/s1600-h/image%25255B61%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNuJ-GxEPgvzft0ruwbLyWPUdy73iCUfk_wQ1GiSsyKuaZRdsikgHPrnhZaNl-O__zjNUPDzaycpIUnpUneRTGHoXU5HstO7e5DRisp4s_MDl1cZ1iHCoPMBE_hR-iVLvjH1V4tYwLyac/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="157" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4) <b><u>Liesel Kruger</u></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b>(Kidscapism, Thinkquest)</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Liesel is from Stirling (also an organiser) and she gave two presentations.</span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 598px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="193"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsxvTjaFA8GqyETLL7Yc99wBnQf_A3itFcjAzeE_S82xhjKCoAFsdigVt44JjJlnzE8Yie5CbA1K4lKPZRjHV7rUjWv5cpc4HAKJwz4SiQnloC2hz61qe34yBXolAZMDEe4zR54n_fQm8/s1600/DSCF0442.JPG"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsxvTjaFA8GqyETLL7Yc99wBnQf_A3itFcjAzeE_S82xhjKCoAFsdigVt44JjJlnzE8Yie5CbA1K4lKPZRjHV7rUjWv5cpc4HAKJwz4SiQnloC2hz61qe34yBXolAZMDEe4zR54n_fQm8/s200/DSCF0442.JPG" width="172" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="6"></td> <td valign="top" width="203"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86meW67JUPxGTzEPAPpH0Z4PbLTURbNBeHJnkoMC6pgnMNUta3FUVQvj92u5Ff1Z7X-Py5uLx3hPYw51E4jeqdDreNoBgOVE9DW5bVBUY85IXhV2z2UtFp9aYBcFhKIqduWhVPEYk9sU/s1600-h/image19.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjynVaaX3cEL_XmyxP-jHRTW0c97v7RRfzR0FWrqXYwmHU19r2FD0ixb4MY-xZAg8Kuotz4fS4I0WTdWMTK_Hq8G6M_fqkKC-sUwpH94ilhMNpklQLdirtVwrW_ecvZaRy_CQU2qcuiflw/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="175" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="194"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) <i>Kidscapism -</i> (<a href="http://www.kidscapism.com/">http://www.kidscapism.com/</a>) .  She wanted her Foundation Phase students to learn about e-mail, but she wanted to be in complete control – know what they are sending, control of who they are sending to etc. Kidscapism is community based around a school, managed by the teacher.  Students can read and write stories, send email to their classmates, and the teacher can sign up his/her class to work with other classes...in other schools...all around the world.  </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">b) Liesel also spoke about how she enjoyed using <i>Thinkquest projects</i> and what she does with this application. Sadly, Thinkquest is soon to be discontinued. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">5)</span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <u>Mary Lou Berndt</u> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Learn the news, Prezi, Br<span style="font-size: large;">ainpop)</span>  </span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mary Lou is from Merrifield College and she shared three presentations. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 574px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="199"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWMo1HORLg92Re4JaB0uAG6FjVq7ZqmgetW8vpsSeFpHR2ybR1Sfie7EDiqpBN6KYYQuDBR95fQgKFYVyfI9zHo5hhso1XS6UIwo7uWhijffCt7yIFX9ECn4GpvyciwgrWOZ4WvjxN2FI/s1600-h/image29.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRFwN-RaNY-QHp3kXXheUSYNxqSrbCP0ajodcX3x0T1iJBRREhmp-db6aoNaxQuRDUVibocWuT4MjCRI2HqM9vwfOboq5JdCsTDfA2YwSfNE5OXDBOWtEVAk09xD9mnXmutAsPc7_Fs4/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="181" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="189"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0DF6cJSqyoy3jUdSwVvWt2tstbxaMLz_Pp8ZHuWQniQBGDThmPMMm-YQt_PcBhVlVchuoqPkbLxRnWbZOUl6Obd6CAoZU56Qyhegv96ebi3W9wWeR2UV5t-ddlFYsw6B8mCn06N9zkw/s1600-h/image30.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNjbvwhm2ENxYrPa-hieSB252KGW7XtKIM-GURT2FdTvD1X5yCA_2RD-iOeYseFmFEoMqD7zTsl1FddD654wmXzhP3Pdr7Zt05-IUc35At5BEClxrTFdWY6eKHIEHD3650xp1PmW8M-dU/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="171" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="178"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBALUTrVH_f0qXf229Bggetn4BSALEAFrVRAbb_l3PWKTYSG5zHP4KgBPTv_tuHEN6aWkrcKE7POWXQ5_uiZolqDIlYrjjZIwlF3Pbz__ospN72iTg1f1d_Wqi0SGlJWSEuyryUhAnq4k/s1600-h/image%25255B63%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhser8a2fSiY0em3wCnAamjZzDrQtMPkTPAzGfCkpnQOzBIieOh5v9RLrHjDQcr9EG6UevVTem5L7FEDWtyGIir5zaic0LdQEXYosaAua4g1bq8eSuXLUlQBwhxwBfP1qHruT6enFQzEpI/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="172" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="6"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) <i>Learn the Ne</i>ws (<a href="http://www.learnthenews.com/">http://www.learnthenews.com/</a>). This is a SOUTH AFRICAN news service and website for school kids produced by the South African Press Association (SAPA). The aim is to encourage reading and interest in current affairs. It covers important news events in the form of an e-newspaper for kids BUT leaves out the horror stories typically found in newspapers. It provides Maths and Literacy worksheets that extract educational value from the news. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">b) Mary Lou also spoke on <i>BrainPop (<a href="http://www.brainpop.com/">http://www.brainpop.com/</a>) </i>which is an educational website with hundreds of short Flash-based movies for students from pre-school to Grade 12. BrainPOP creates animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. There is both a free and a paid version. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">c) <u>Mary Lou’s</u> third presentation was a useful presentation on how to use <i>Prezi (<a href="http://prezi.com/">http://prezi.com/</a>)  </i>the zooming presentation editor that keeps students engaged and intrigued.  </span></span> <br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="133"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62QelL_wO_x3GOfJMOrpMioyIckLhZ2ETpEPSwyuLKdLPvzcYydiJ2yEf68kwH-W_gNkzDFUSifyTTkzwlTLqsfB2NKm2eJOsWOUqB4jKZUUKhjmug076alqr9fT4thfhp5dK-T797qc/s1600-h/image33.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUOV8URgULgKFjmUC6lfQmoUSA_L57-I-Io3aegGzdvhx4FB8tuy-P9TaRAxF3VvOMJwdwrvC38mUfGdM5MpwgR7PO4jxqxdaxsGhQrnSOs5bsi0sdpwV-fFyPlgWmyN_NXL2F8VpheE/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="210" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="133"></td> <td valign="top" width="133"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQ0JRaVDas8JTOZCDxvwlfjh_GmhLmiBnM1TKoG3Ms3JYbz6OIo9-wSQQyIArrvo3-5xM7x1v-oF4RGDBSToRT7_husUnZKRsT3ozWWQ4z_W4WEo_YKNwB2OJ5t_fwJ0Q8x-Pmj4bbvw/s1600-h/image36.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8kNXK4xWDd8GbmBptkgoG415lGe7RZr4j1YcJpAwamRnJFQZCsxIHw1oZ1rmKI42vXiL6yFAlO5L4FBwidwhFgQ5Z8aNMiDpA3DrWngZ0MiFPwu_gRP9yR_qWF2MX4ZZY-0Zmw_sGOKg/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="209" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6) </span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Miranda Botha</span></span></u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Video creation)</span></span><u><br /></u></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Miranda is a Grade 4 teacher from Clarendon, and she gave a most inspiring presentation on how she and her class had made a movie together called ‘<i>Helping Hamilton’</i>. They created a DVD movie using the data projector and whiteboard, all based on a story that the students created together. The movie’s audio is edited for effect, using editing software. Photographs and audio recordings are made for the purpose of making a “book” of the same title. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCfbYDBLf4ZmGGC-8D-FPCTiHTBzSS09sxzRwn6qTQ3ZmyCD-VJIwAQgfNgFkXSsieXn5PNx7g50_P7v7Upib2K3KmrutMEk_6A_h13njeBL25i7uS0HGsUWKMbIerVU0QYc6uv1vFn0M/s1600-h/image42.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHemQp8FDFNxNnFDQzh3Ti0sLcMPJog7cNt8nXCJLCMhNG1v00_LtzXaA6L_ypAEzXvGKWALnZVWpiQnBgQv0sIWrEzX_VEc2KdZqa3-zbRkd4d21qhLmVs0RE-rv3U9-bce8GE9DxPgM/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="153" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="81"></td> <td valign="top" width="79"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLF_OD4kiT2BdtbosbwjzOLUzB6o8otHoCmn0GgOTyG3GmakDgxCy2OvlpcB5zLgRvMcpiGHWpoY1mLhxUtJsSqWhshFcwmCVmpFQTjq5iiSPEw5RoIfXcPUnG8iWjuW3gtlWbmXA5bVk/s1600-h/image%25255B65%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDPAkJ6geQKaD2XrlixEu358ba8Ks_f2sZMLlElQQsioGS1QWJ4mIAepF-K6qrOzVuRS7cUxxDOT9y1BQwgntf8bU8QeTmyST3R8dgFy5erQro5ZDJ1ga6Zwp9rA4YKWegYwXwbyiXrWw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="154" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSoWYBUe5cGD0ZXCLszCg_ooV8vyt0lDw-duBcUndhk-JY3CRfK0_dRhQZh2dU_msNCNCkI8tWN2Qk4nwwxuEKXkZ13lOQ7FASKgCY3yZOf073NXMqIpF5IvaGOloKoAd99dfx5Jzt3ro/s1600-h/image48.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj12WriTuxZneiOq0ymSki_F92-cbA21WJY_Gtt4POgbN2nM3NodSTX9-r0H7SHIlSmWtLvIeGgRgqinNsyHBkZkw5lMCE45VqFzbcz9JNUhyphenhyphenmM7UlqCl1wQ6-XROWxKteXFV0ByZC2atk/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="155" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">7) <b><u>Wesley Renton </u>(Tiki-toki, Flashcard Stash)</b> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wes<span style="font-size: small;">ley</span> is from Stirling Primary and he gave a presentation showing how he combines two Web2 programmes with excellent results.  </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivtQREnZbfCY9DEA5xA-oHW0xuvK02tpO74wYcmtQiQTpovT6hyphenhyphen95FPCx2smosEvABI7Zqp2l8ZSaZM3luLlPtvVQsflOGIKVC6SxeoGAUodj0LMbR5qGhxjCcnVN8xTHu0B43S4yFJek/s1600-h/image58.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr68FODWKV_72RaUzLcCPoyAKMr4u_U4pEwdXXqg8FJJ21dtmbuHfYq-u8-QdYPnYpKdDV7LjdwaBoSLYn2-rRwh55jclYIn7IZGgWpDfdDg7tg_st2lqKxsb56f5Lbfkzvxp7Sbuq9vk/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="163" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7hjDQDufO3MVfGPCqKgZ_-5Lj6gzEh6PI70y7cWM73uIFJSU3mA71th-tRYv_ebY0_QrgqM7kVnhW2TlbCPrjYkqUWcfIpL9cQGZrvszbyg5bjTkY5zh4bJyAnPCZMxGt-x8edF2fOg/s1600-h/image56.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiczEqx4eo3ZU6ArPZfuPar-mtn8g74J5HhMgm8XoUkubUu71Kf7MEfD4jIPHuevMYFxsllugoFHweLBj4oTsl1vhSjoD36C_BK4cYitqA2hILXm1YXcei_OAZJ-Uc3YwFyQNn4cKN-4w/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="153" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnKl3fGmJHADtgg71q3sCKubfzb7upaafJD7SqAZdMukTmO61gaopdFwq3xUw4W7d7yXBHMUfGvzWpJ0Xn3IT6cn_Rk9ScWFezI2Ye18iHD8-iAi_4vIkZONiLTbDl4uBXIuFL33EEAWs/s1600-h/image%25255B67%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Q_gLDFXt0QGxLgNtfYJ8CRCQmB4T9rV5gmZt6rm5sU_iMRUGDsjUEItQ93COiqENKG1ujQdUDGlEMbjCSLgwkdBVsYWcJuxa6QNX6KtOdFpiJKM_Pm_ntxEObnu16hKUWrqbkEkXgoo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="151" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first is <i>Tiki-Toki</i> (<a href="http://www.tiki-toki.com/">http://www.tiki-toki.com/</a>) which is a web-based timeline software that creates beautiful interactive timelines that can be shared on the web. This application can create a great visual representation of what the students are studying, and you are able to link it up to virtually any website or youtube video for extra material. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The second application is <i>Wordstash, </i>now called <i>Flashcard Stash</i> (<a href="http://flashcardstash.com/">http://flashcardstash.com/</a>) which is a keyword creator and allows the pupils to essentially test themselves </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">8)<u><b> Margi Diab</b></u><b> (Vocaroo)</b></span></span><u><b><br /></b></u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Margi i<u><b>s</b></u> a music teacher from Stirling Primary spoke on Vocaroo (<a href="http://vocaroo.com/">http://vocaroo.com/</a>) which is an easy-to-use online recorder.   Margi showed us how easy it is to use and oitlined the procedure. She followed this with a recording</span><span style="font-size: small;"> made of one of her piano students. Margi gave a few hints on how to get a really clear recording. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-phPNFKkXxBnmQJSyV8yfRsc-AsaeB4nk1ZPHS4e2WWYeqoZzcNZ_IggJascBJfbPCvhuJYpBDhHWjXJfwTsUv7uwHxQXFwip1keaU2bsgbkfSxIlsbbknNGGpfaBrm8yabTyHAEN8LE/s1600-h/image64.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQKLhEHz0cHkv1-foNvI4ZV9dvHeRPfjcCDo3ZtdKA-xnBgRrUe3HQT02KSrY17KLEBz-dgIhpLHiOgvOuvtELR0i1P0dKpeT771ppnhM7iP_NWZdcH5Y_NfdAFf9Ais_qE17MWtCfuc/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="135" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlfb0D76Ff0YOzXwdGDHnxbRT2Wm98CfMeWYBbLusdnYWlMxvADVrh7FL3ye5CSWpgSr5G_qPkIyU047U2tSO-B6w9LoAM1NpIEp9vKaB3j5KkaN6XXZuKBwK6Gl6tSPwK__uzniR4V4/s1600-h/image65.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EcmN7qqa_B3UB5mW2k-eM4v_pDzvZJzZGCMBfh6h-Z7slLXysOxo-2mDjExNzEKFpJIVvkgBSBmH6HJ8UN6w6CHw-lx_SOdoWKKpXH__i1TXsZhGzh9RCW05Ky7x0jVAFNSTM3ruuPI/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="157" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCs-DxR8PSuUE9-YZiD-GNshvpTAkNEz-lVP3mOhc8K8FXAPaSFzEnmFl5w4bk2MAtj01DLx0CNoXLA-1BRfwp2cqyQUG_wTe0Q1BfnF-vEdXd3JoW_ep7SDuOpwiNUGvNIFWogLTC1C0/s1600-h/image%25255B69%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ArqTMH8vwgANFQPB5JxJgAL8N0kLCHIqWqgSOnEbIOpQikAfwZztTh02sr2Qf9RLUXBIOojHLu5cYLDffZNN3hG_MlX2Kg5jW5-1843SawReZSYVihfmNVJEYwmvpzduL7VBJtLOs8k/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="157" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">9) </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Abrie Pepl<span style="font-size: large;">e</span>r</u> (iPad story)</span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Abrie is the Deputy Head at Selborne Primary and he spoke on how he successfully used the iPad in Grade 3 with story writing using a free app called <i>Story Kit.</i> His students first wrote the story and drew accompanying pictures. he then allowed them to type these on the iPad using the Story Kit app and he assisted them with adding the drawings plus a photo of themselves. The lesson created a real buzz and the boys had a tremendous amount of fun creating the stories. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 510px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="161"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKzVUorn3AlvscXRkVhYAjaNk9HJb7HnahdRvgcFvT9LQjSu-74GbnQtCWjNNj6dkwQu5z7AambW1mDl8Zb2X5MzfC5vnrfp93SjBLXiNu64U9oQbP2IlvSuxIbPxBxO2zqVRDGCbuG_Q/s1600-h/image101.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDrb1Otsub5nWzzAnivaY-ys9HbjEhfgJ8vqKZSofQvKkfdQ9TSCCC61M3JOPoQ1Ttkf5om89lOThS-yBeiQnPjBUla2GQBj0iiw0rtQU8fJdq7tAEQmqh1LoQ7oxT88nTZOHY0dy8Rt0/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="141" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="183"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbo-s938JUHHAG3ct8hPCiA6butHjTeewZLtR1sGxQPkyMEe2iS9_CCna_HYPNrwzdmMthp_jYncpgIFhy7d8-FCk26PyTepTFg-0OJqvDzyoZPJcp79RLdEfj0tLQFatB7KaKyu4ssXM/s1600-h/image102.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GK5IDQNtS4Ju3T-1nAVIfLPqLOThq2Oq9iGtuLSnNharC7-8Hs9z8Bh10_1t2Wv3U4WBGqfcObZjOKgFB8oO6a22aRzJmQCPoABg9eMnbHS8Gjk1HoeZKr73AgCBaw_BVHmOICKkRwY/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="163" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="164"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEw4GSWpiMnUGZqqZEAVpuF5gzPDJNXVga-daIVFe-lePTddLWFqFA0UqZf7bMdqTw0da0Xoo2onf_xTZccRRFscMgzkjmMfDfBVe2k5B2un7DpRRFDy54mK6AJiZ46dFHA8rEzvQnQCg/s1600-h/image%25255B70%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP09y9wVO6FWrBu3aIENz29ke2zpPVVu5bh-XAyiCtv7PgXOiiH_JI46SAVIjK2lRgytbFwT4GKSO4gCEVPZptc9F3Lmx0VP9W5KU6ZL7RPItELPNI6cdI9hx0y0lg8S7n8KMizeQXrLU/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="157" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">10) <b><u>Fiona Beal</u> (ClassDojo, PowerPoint, <span style="font-size: large;">YouTube<br />      Creative Writing, Scoop.it)</span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fiona is a technology integration facilitator who works for SchoolNet. She gave five presentations. (This was a request by the organisers by the way!) </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyj-wCpPqXkDIAkx_UoEJrZ23WOS9jgxFLpqId1S6Z3kIKTzZ53SfFTKgl3s17h9vWIzphyphenhyphenozD1E5ZVj_A0jpGT1CGylWV1stW7XkADY2BCZ_oFjkBbRT2Tuc3U-DohWOrO7Pr4JxKLIs/s1600-h/image68.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWsDW0RtrNAar1ir0WSFvREiYnUqfYAqtFvzsOuLNAwICTKRplfcaWW4oe352G4Cox0E23TECjx1Ck7Lk1RC_Neu9aFjF_S0oUrco7l3VEjd8iByqnFWN8sMyxBGdRFeVv6L6xzzORVM/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="122" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsfMfAPZczQ110iEl7xOzI6VGzy0cMCEt343jxkXPPd3WiSiFvwde_H0WVZdDLyFz5ui3i8X3oWodoF1c-V82NUqaguOa-571cjUDR1Y7HfOG0aPo0gb0hKGHhQeRMTFCYHvNMfkARzMc/s1600-h/image71.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkfPrMK50ZuhK0nxcXAQujJRDZQQRHFLSZjAhND14oNME6hJ8VJTE6XIi9ejMySSubhAgNu04us8KiVvlDShpJVyLKgQVOIyP_gBCkkvLWiSM8-Vtmc3FxuIflcaZvsEvXbZn3CfK318/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="163" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="80"></td> <td valign="top" width="80"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihlB2rrWCudXXFZSlWFyzJ-RhC2JzyIIJSFR68dyXPFm-WroIeoZ2LQ84vHoW59bjpmC77xcYQqk1XoRpRnYeHQB3xawNwDrfhcJS-OCEVaumVrnjFqnyFgCg6xT5BXFpY2tRmal-W51Q/s1600-h/image74.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3UcqtcTQ02h9PO1vWwg1CAhXAO-3Md3e-9pAI8UL7QKXH76Y3itvgozNygrRwzOXRXN3HMdya8s6FAv1-k7OIhPo6lEECHQeXdgYu7GPNxR2BVyBI6xfTwH1u8Af3uWuPgrx1ehYRQCk/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="158" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a) <i>ClassDojo</i> is a free and fun classroom tool that helps teachers improve behaviour in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behaviour that teachers can share with parents and administrators. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">b) The second presentation was called ‘<i>I love PowerP</i>oint’ showing some of the classroom uses for this Microsoft programme. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">c) A presentation called ‘<i>Lovely sites for creative wr</i>iting’ included showing the use of web tools such a Story Jumper, Story Bird, Youblisher, Artisans Picture Book, Little Bird Tales, Newspaper Clips, and various poetry templates from Read, Write, Think. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">d) ‘<i>Make YouTube work for you</i>’ showed a few useful ways a teacher can use YouTube in the classroom. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 400px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="133"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8_SYobde-_5_JdB2k1bS2TFruEnKzQP40W4Z__wQHSDltbOpNsFESmX0Ll9dzqKPlPGrz01gYQHBuCDX0GSk9qCHMBIoV6_MnI1VhWvOR-hOw2xnLKoZiNhQIKwb9W-leghWHsvgSBU/s1600-h/image77.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuiM6QUNnLCGFKXD2M-POygCJ6Lgy5lsESMRdAtqcYpA7WqplvKL27T0HE7i00jJewdmP_u2yQItRCo0-76SqXANCBsxW_1A44AN0C-6bUmhrU-vrr-mr73cGcCaAK3JgoVowfRR9SVkU/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="178" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="133"></td> <td valign="top" width="133"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJs-zWaR9fnGJg-cCQkCD2azdVgZmHIbi8Mofw9ToqIGik5iILZ8bM02_RIvn5xoNxjXX0zmzNTRM9_hyphenhyphenQm3DzaOYmN-R30yaFjBkY_ThLUhS8DRkPlMLQjqqnptXvCX44C7eWSO6C88/s1600-h/image80.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXJ19yh7WfjyXvhvjreGeiVHKqNReuo3T_v_6Bhl9nlQjwqo5wAYMoW-KdWTF44VzqN6XT51cKQeoeEWFYusi7r_Ii5fKjKLaGtOFiW60155x456kZTccL4w3CBL8Ga26CmNSxZ7YrLME/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="182" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e) ‘<i>Have you tried Scoopit’</i> illustrated the role that Scoopit (<a href="http://www.scoop.it/">http://www.scoop.it)</a> can play in helping a teacher curate websites based around a topic that will be useful in the classroom. Some examples of Scoopit magazines are:<br /><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/history-and-geography-teaching-resources-elementary-school">*History and Geography resources for elementary school</a> (Fiona Beal)<br />*<a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/reading-and-writing-in-primary-school">Reading and Writing in primary school</a> (Fiona Beal)<br />*<a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/maths-for-k-3-students">Maths for K-3 students</a> (Fiona Beal)<br /><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/just-ipadding-along">*Just iPadding along</a> (Karen Stadler) </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">f) Fiona also encouraged teachers to join SchoolNet’s free premium membership programme. by visiting the website (<a href="http://www.schoolnet.org.za/">http://www.schoolnet.org.za/</a>) and following the prompts. </span></span><br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 392px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="199"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-fOMkIdG-NazT5TN0k2NyYKIqgNBx_5PlQi3vzrlBte0BHYD9VH2t2cUASNnwOW2aDRMFZynIbNWHxANaRuDqv6kaKLHbjNlOeiLgb26C4FgMA0jThOhwQuVuSENFLqee-NUoKtaTuw/s1600-h/image88.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUKz8H99ZH5WhsozH2NAXiKhsmsFgFd8hR5WFMi8lfIWFdr8uUC5aGVEanhWYsjsAAlG78W4MT1rioUn95vREWArotttb6Mr3yEiSX1aqQq6KhstiUcCqeDV5JNvHkDtO5xEo4p0dep08/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="168" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="191"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpOAR73vOyBwRVWIZeyFlIUf96AKAl-RY2s-lZY8NcUGrNL6tbDXU4Qve6xN32aNZi6fw_X7TnNwHCXC_yVMdSKZjKsjMdSlOp2wuumuRiKJytfMigOkUJBQFiOLuQVw-RvySs8LjHP4/s1600-h/image92.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiIvTvPY8SbaJnQXuYjDTdUEW76hEAqX1PDTgrje37enTXJIs2an_Kh7dPCg-u0MNOI8pYEfejmshg7NrJO6mrMq3xRqfltBtP9UwKyFvqOzrPZDrjIZFYGe-79UGfr-R9XZAF06xu9xc/?imgmax=800" title="image" width="169" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This was an amazing couple of days spent in East London. The opportunity of visiting Claire, Liesel and Sharon in their respective labs was a rare opportunity and I also greatly appreciated being hosted overnight by Liesel.  The teachers at the TeachMeet were thrilled to received some sponsored items from Microsoft such as their amazing Learning Suite DVD and some other classroom aids. </span></span><br />  <br /><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 385px;"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="182"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe9aMEcp5Pif0qXbwILGrmcD_0BjKDFtlXsbd_SK__IjSYYRQ-YAkow0q2qneqKyF3g1LQT1rfm80Cws6528XJjSMt9_4dD9XTuJDGMlbvXEOzJrQXjo1kb2Zi3bluxos1FfnoD4yvB54/s1600-h/image%25255B71%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfqaBYZa1kYytdO8jcIWbAdaBtJzEAJDSyvEYwOQHe85t05bHktoYmjMJfcfPTCz4YxNatrAkHI_s1ZAp3ZXfjTl1nTbBPd8N-2q2hZaL_X4c4DqbW4pTuD8P7Z7uYZ7gwzcMt-UKpM90/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="152" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="201"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiQDaRQgB8pgm8J7iVyPgWI4EsA5qONgga2DAOAmoXXTPN9xCF20bcMhpaMddI9DSzSiS5b2wxdtiRPKQB05jdeP7FfaE_Rts6OimNWgNIuOenM2Z4P91FJngPTwdM0N_mhyadZVOCXEo/s1600-h/image%25255B73%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV0ICPrkXElPOeflKCCmEuccQqyt8aG7tU4PW-oOsca36cGh2PMfoGRz260grdtYGFSdavhLIB0yj0RIWi3f1pXOnCSK-cwm0V7UENRXa5QG_wjuknlBORuPWsF4A-6ZfpXaD9XJf7fBM/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="168" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Twitter feed archive using Storify can be found at <a href="http://storify.com/fibeal/east-london-teachmeet-tweet-archive-11-sept-2012">http://storify.com/fibeal/east-london-teachmeet-tweet-archive-11-sept-2012</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">  </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well done East London teachers! I am sure there will be many more TeachMeets coming your way. </span></span><br /><br /></div>

teachmeets Report back on the fantastic Teachmeet in East London 11 Sept 2012

  The East London TeachMeet logo Submitted by Fiona Beal  In September I had the HUGE privilege of flying up to East London to attend the fi...

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