About Danielle

Social Media Director for ^IfMine and creator of EcoScrapbook.com. Visit my Google+ Profile to learn more: http://gplus.to/daniellehunter

Meet The Team: Joel

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Danielle

JOEL: ^IfMine Profile

Title: Founder and CEO

Website: ^IfMine

Bio: I come from a large family of brothers and sisters who grew up around the University of Toledo. I went to St. Francis de Sales High School, studied pre-med at Saint Meinrad Seminary and graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Chemistry from UT. I went to the Ross University School of Medicine in the West Indies and later, had a residency out of the Detroit Medical Center. After practicing as a family physician for about 15 years, I retired to form ^IfMine, a subsidiary to National Resources Management Systems.

^IfMine Project Highlight: Doc Notes

When did you get your first computer? My first computer was after doing residency at the age of 38. However, my early computer use came in my mid-thirties during medical school where I simply looked up lab data for the hospitalized patient. After medical school came residency at the Detroit Medical Center, where I used computers for patient lab results and dictation summaries for the discharge of patients.

Describe your early experiences with the Internet: During my free time in residency, I aggressively did my own investigative research entering searches to topics with the service of over 5000 journals on an expressive program of MEDLINE. After residency, I was in private practice and used my personal computer for writing scripts as full length motion pictures and simple email correspondence.

What do you do when you’re not using tech? Most of my free time is spent having family fun with my autistic boy and four Italian Greyhounds or making my yard into a interesting natural park.

Also meet: Our Team, Danielle, Anthony & Navarr

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Featured ^IfMine Project: HTML5 Motion Comics

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Danielle

What are motion comics? Find out here and sign up for the ^IfMine Beta to comment on this project or create your own.

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The ^IfMine Mashup: MOOCs, Khan and Thinking Differently

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Danielle

Today starts a new series on the ^IfMine blog consisting of the benefits of collaboration and changing the education paradigm.

Converting Large Group Classes to Massive Online Courses:

MOOCs will not completely replace traditional education, just like not every course can be taught in the large-lecture format. They will, however, provide a better education to an audience that otherwise would not have access to it. -Scott Rapp

Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College:

Mr. Khan advocates for a separation of universities’ teaching and credentialing roles… the playing field would be leveled between students pursuing different forms of higher education. Although students would not be graded in the imagined university he describes, they would compile a portfolio of their work and assessments from their mentors. -Alisha Azevedo

Urging Economists to Step Away From the Blackboard:

Economists study abstractions and numbers, instead of firms and people. He [Ronald Coase] doesn’t believe this can be fixed by tweaking models. An entire generation of economists must be encouraged to think differently. -Brendan Greeley

Changing Education in an Ever-Changing World:

The United States education system has failed to recognize the significance of current events, and it needs a renovation. It is time to reevaluate the core concepts and standards of the system. -Matthew Resnick

How would you change education? Comment below and let us know. Don’t forget to sign up for the ^IfMine Beta, where you can collaborate on ideas and create your own portfolio of work.

Photo source: The U.S. National Archives (Flickr)