Job: multimedia developer, St. Jude

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Trey Martindale

CONTRACT POSITION – Multimedia Developer

International Outreach Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

A contract position is available to develop new features for the Cure4Kids (www.cure4kids.org) and Cure4Kids for Kids (www.cure4kids.org/kids) websites. Your software will have worldwide impact! Cure4Kids.org is a professional medical education web site developed by the International Outreach Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Cure4Kids has hundreds of online seminars, a digital library, web conferencing, and group collaboration workspaces. Cure4Kids also has developed Oncopedia, for online interactive case discussions. Cure4Kids is used by 29,000 users in 178 countries for education and collaboration. Cure4Kids for Kids is a leading source of cancer education for students in the Kindergarten – Twelfth grades. This program helps school children, their parents, and teachers understand the basic science and treatment of cancer. Through the use of age-appropriate content, the program focuses on three main objectives: 1) educating students, parents, teachers, and communities about cancer and dispelling common misconceptions, 2) promoting healthy lifestyle choices in children that can help reduce the risk of developing cancer as an adult, and 3) increasing interest in science and scientific careers. The new Cure4Kids for Kids website (www.Cure4Kids.org/Kids) makes the St. Jude Cancer Education for Children Program available to children across the country and the world. The website contains the cancer education material for elementary-aged students, teachers, and parents. Cartoon characters serve as tour guides throughout the narrated books, interactive games, glossary, and question and answer sections of the site. Cure4Kids for Teachers (www.cure4kids.org/teachers) enables educators to download and print the program materials free of charge.

Contract Programmer Duties

• Able to covert Powerpoint and video recordings into online presentations using Articulate. • Ability to edit audio, video and image files • Ability to create interactive presentations for online education projects.

Major Skills and Abilities
• Advanced knowledge of multimedia editing (video, audio, images)
• Advanced experience with two or more of the following products : Articulate, Adobe Presenter, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Final Cut Pro.
• Ability to organize software, hardware and media assets (physical and electronic). • Must have a degree or be enrolled in a college or university program. • Minimum of three years of experience with multimedia.
Additional useful skills are script and PHP programming.

APPLY TO: c4kjobs@cure4kids.org

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas and based in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world. No family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. The mission of International Outreach is to improve the survival rates of children with catastrophic diseases worldwide, through the transfer of knowledge, technology, and organizational skills. For more information please visit http://www.stjude.org/international

Job: internet software developer, St. Jude

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Trey Martindale

CONTRACT POSITION – Internet Software Developer International Outreach Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

A contract position is available to develop new features for the Cure4Kids and POND4Kids web sites. Your software will have worldwide impact!

Cure4Kids.org is a professional medical education web site developed by the International Outreach Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Cure4Kids has hundreds of online seminars, a digital library, web conferencing, and group collaboration workspaces. Cure4Kids also has developed Oncopedia, for online interactive case discussions. Cure4Kids is used by 29,000 users in 178 countries for education and collaboration.

The Pediatric Oncology Networked Database (POND4Kids) is an online, multilingual database for pediatric hematology/oncology patients. Its purpose is to improve the care of pediatric oncology patients in countries with limited resources by the exchange of information and experience between oncologists in diverse geographic regions who practice in a similar medical environment. Over 50 countries are currently using POND4Kids to analysis and global collaborations.

Contract Programmer Duties

• Able to design, implement, and document programs written in PHP and MySQL in a Linux environment. • Able to design, implement, and document databases in MySQL.
• Able to design complex SQL queries and optimize performance of existing queries.

Major Skills and Abilities
• Advanced knowledge of computer programming in PHP, MySQL, CSS, XML, JavaScript
• Advanced knowledge of the Linux and Windows operating systems, personal computer hardware and Internet email and file transfer, and Web server systems. • Ability to debug and test computer programs (unit and system test). • Strong ability with object oriented programming and associated methodologies. • Must have a degree or be enrolled in Computer Science or Engineering program. • Minimum of three years of programming experience.
Additional useful skills include HL7, HIPAA, HTML5, PEAR, Zend.

APPLY TO: c4kjobs@cure4kids.org

Meetings on hold

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Trey Martindale

There is no meeting of the E-learning Network today. In response to feedback we are considering moving the regular meeting time to late afternoons so participants can attend the meetings and then go home rather than back to work.

You can give us feedback by adding a comment to this post.

Thanks,

Trey

June 30th meeting at Southwest TN CC. Tegrity and Lecture Capture

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Trey Martindale

You are invited to the monthly meeting of the Memphis E-Learning Network–a group of e-learning professionals representing Memphis-area corporations and organizations.

When: 11:45 A.M. to 1:00 P.M., Thursday, June 30th, 2011
***Where: Southwest TN Community College, Macon Cove Campus, Bornblum library room 234 ***. Map: http://bit.ly/lNr6ZB
Macon Cove Campus directions: https://www.southwest.tn.edu/macon/
Who is Invited: anyone interested in teaching and learning.
Food: bring your lunch and we’ll eat while we meet. The Southwest staff is providing dessert!
About the Memphis E-Learning Network: http://eln.teachable.org/about

Session Description

This month we are taking a field trip to Southwest Tennessee Community College. This session will be a show and tell on the lecture capture solution (Tegrity) used at Southwest, and how it is and can be used for e-learning and for remote test proctoring. We will facilitate some conversation on others’ experiences with that product or lecture capture in general. The discussion will be facilitated by professionals from the Center of Emphasis for Teaching and Technology including Todd Blankenbeckler, Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Fellow, Gary Shockley, Academic Computing Specialist, and Jeremy Burnett, Assistant Professor and Director.

Please forward this notice to interested colleagues, or those you know involved in training and learning initiatives.

thanks,
Trey

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Trey Martindale, Ed.D., Associate Professor and Program Coordinator
Instructional Design and Technology, University of Memphis http://idt.memphis.edu
(901) 870-6926 http://teachable.org
Director, IDT Studio http://idtstudio.org
Coordinator, E-learning Network http://eln.teachable.org

Kevin Thorn on Storyboarding, May 26th

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Trey Martindale

You are invited to the monthly meeting of the Memphis E-Learning Network–a group of e-learning professionals representing Memphis-area corporations and organizations.

When: 11:45 A.M. to 1:00 P.M., Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Where: University of Memphis, College of Education, Ball Hall 320. Map: http://bit.ly/9xzqNU
Who is Invited: anyone interested in teaching and learning.
Parking: use the parking garage just north of Ball Hall
Food: bring your lunch. We’ll have some light refreshments, and we’ll eat while we meet.
About the Memphis E-Learning Network: http://eln.teachable.org/about
Session Description

“The Art of Storyboarding”, by Kevin Thorn, instructional designer with AutoZone

Applying storyboarding to e-Learning always seems to cause a debate about the best approaches and methods, because each person’s workflow is different. There is no real standard … and there shouldn’t be. Storyboarding is, and should remain, flexible and fluid depending on the project. The problem is how to use and implement the tools, templates, and methods to get the best results out of your storyboarding efforts. In this session we will discuss storyboarding from a more visual and artistic approach, and demonstrate various tools including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and custom storyboarding applications used in the film and animation industries.

Please forward this notice to interested colleagues, or those you know involved in training and learning initiatives.

Peter Bloom on being a one-person e-learning shop. March 31.

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Trey Martindale

At the next E-Learning Network meeting, March 31 at 11:45 AM, Peter Bloom will talk about being a one-person e-learning shop. In nearly six years at ALSAC, his role has grown and evolved. Peter will share the approach he uses, describe how and why he uses the tools he does, and talk about the future direction of e-learning at ALSAC.

Peter Bloom is an E-Learning Training Analyst at ALSAC, the fundraising organization that supports St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Peter works in the Learning & Organization Development group which is a part of the Human Resources division. Peter’s educational background is in both media production and instructional design. In his role at ALSAC, he develops both technical and compliance related e-learning courseware. He also administers the Learning Management System for over 1000 employees and contractors.