When I ask my students about how they use Google strikes me that most use it only as a search engine, leaving aside the endless educational possibilities offered by this form.

Next I will review 10 applications Google , sure to be useful for both teachers and students.

Google Docs is without doubt one of the most innovative tools package Google to assume the characteristics of Web 2.0 in a field unsuitable for this: the processors text and presentation programs (both widely used in education). It works without installing any programs, do not pay license and no local disk storage needs for the documents it generates.

These features make in an ideal software for use within the school. To realize the enormous potential of this resource, the teacher should properly calibrate the capabilities of the center and students and to know in depth the function of this tool offers.

Google Site is another Google tools. We could say that is a mixture of blog and wiki. Allows any user to make their own website without programming knowledge. Access is via your Gmail account or an account Google . It is a perfect tool to make a collaborative website.

Google Calendar is an online calendar: the personal-use tool that further guidance is group work. The ability to share our agenda with others if we want, and the ability to add events and invitations in these calendars, are powers of enormous interest in classroom organization and management of the school.

With Google Calendar can create different calendars originally organized to separate the various activities that the teacher, the student center or raised in their teaching. Based on a primary calendar associated with the account (and you will see people who seek it) can generate all the calendars side wish to assign to the different modules to be treated. You can have a calendar for each course for each department, to the parents association for the training of teachers for extracurricular activities or the resource center. These calendars can be shared either publicly or with only a specific group of people. All in one place.

tool Google Maps is an application that allows you to create own maps, maps with pointers marking them, lines, areas, maps, texts, pictures and video. These maps were created from maps provided by the system through searches, and are so easy to customize. You can customize a map to look for a specific use in the classroom: the possibilities are vast and varied.

If you want to know more click here .

Google Fast Flip is a magazine-style display of popular items from some of the most popular websites on the internet. The content is drawn from media as The Washington Post, Popular Science, The New York Times and Reuters . The display makes it easy to navigate quickly. Fast Flip Google can be a useful resource for social science students and their teachers

Google Books : Offers an index of millions of books and publications. The books and articles found in the public domain can see, read and download in its entirety, the copyrighted titles can be read but not can be downloaded.

One of the options offered is to build virtual libraries to our favorite books.

Google Image Swirl is an image search tool designed to help improve and modify the search using imágenes.Para Google Image Swirl, enter your search term as you would in the image search service normal. The search results are displayed in a grid similar to that with which you are probably familiar.

wheel Search Google refinement is a search tool that visually helps students to improve and modify their searches on the web.

Wheel Search Google shows the initial search term, as the center of a network of six to eight branches related search terms, if we click on any of the related terms see the results of those terms.

Google Scholar This specialized search engine Google user makes available a wide range of research from different areas. Without Clearly, the tool consists of algorithms designed for the academic environment, facilitates the achievement of quality work by students, scientists, researchers, teachers and the general public.

If you want to know how to use click here .

Finally, Google Reader is probably the tool that requires a more advanced level of management or to put it another way, greater immersion in the digital world educational resources. Allows you to track your favorite web sites and see all updates from a single point of easy and convenient. You can make a constant check on the new content that may appear in blogs and news sites that have marked as favorites. Whether a site is updated daily or monthly, we can rest assured of receiving the last thing that happens and you do not lose anything.

centralize all our favorite sites in one place has a huge potential in the teaching-learning process. It's like a personalized inbox for the entire web. It also has a huge collaborative component, as with the public page we Google Reader share our bookmarks with other people, simply send the appropriate links. Clicking on the icon to share in any item, it will instantly appear on our public.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Community Service For Alpha Kappa Alpha

ORDER OR MAKE you put CAJA?

Article published in ELPAIS.com, 07/02/2011
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Poner/orden/hacer/caja/elpepusoc/20110207elpepusoc_7/Tes

The health deficit CCAA is the result of revenue shortfalls and expenditure growth accelerated not the level of spending per person. Use financial responsibility instruments such as fees, prices or copayments can serve two different purposes that requires explanation. May serve to increase revenue (to cash) and also help the use of more effective services and to reduce the misuse (to order). It is likely that if applied with caution (regarding income and effectively) and income / savings reinvested in public health are much more acceptable to citizens who think some politicians.

Whatever the objective, we must take two things very clear: the first is that co-payments alone are not "the" solution to anything but just a tool to be used in coordination with other measures of health policy. The second is that no one should speak of "copayment" but copayment / rates / public prices in the plural: They can go from being a brute "sick tax" to tune instruments that encourage physicians and patients choose the most effective treatments and lower cost, and exemptions and ceilings as the economic capacity of patients.

If co-payments are applied to help bring order (more selective application), provided in conjunction with other concurrent and coordinated, the best co-payment system would be one that raises little because only applies unnecessary and achieves its goal freeing resources . Here the prescription is clear: not only the cost of management must be as low as possible but that the identification of inappropriate use should be made with scientific and clinical criteria. The result will not be measured both by euro obtained as the reduction of unnecessary use.

Where to begin if the goal is to bring order? Start where inadequate identification is clear and easy to manage is the best guide. The selective application of copayments on medical emergencies is complex but feasible, provided it is applied also to other services and that the source of the inadequacy is not the lack of adequate response in primary care.

For primary care visits a low-intensity rate can help reduce unnecessary pressure by minor symptoms. Be careful to avoid cross-effects (more emergency pressure) and prevent chronic medical visits should more often end up with expensive offs. Rehabilitation services, can be used to penalize defaulters, etc..

drug case is more clear, urgent and easier to manage: unfair and inefficient redistributing the current pharmaceutical copayment copayments to avoidable (not paying more for the same and if the patient wishes to pay the price difference), and differential (the more necessary and cost-effective, lower co-payment), and a low copay intensity that would exempt only the truly poor.

not for economists but the clinical and scientific evidence indicate inappropriate use, but to propose sensible applications in each case: copayments avoidable preferable to traditional co-payments (fixed or variable amount according to cost or price), low copayments versus high intensity, deductibles, essential boundary cumulative maximum contribution per person related or unrelated to income, exemption criteria and forms for low income and children, avoidable contribution as the price difference between equivalent co-payment based effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatment, design of tax relief income tax, etc.. Are these details and not the fact itself that the patient pay some of which establish the goodness or badness of the system.

If copayments are designed with the objective of making housing (more extensive implementation), legal and political option preferable to the current scenario of plummeting government revenues take financial measures to impose more blind and hasty, economists can give indications to mitigate the distributional impact and impact on health. Is a recurrent error to think that one euro more in tax revenue is always more progressive than the euro itself obtained through a public price, rate or copayment.

Both the recent increase in the VAT and the so-called "health penny" in the tax Hydrocarbons are clearly regressive and, instead, it is possible to design a co-payment is not (at least, to not be so.) Copayment limits are recommended accumulated (maximum amount or percentage of income) and derogations to lower income individuals and children.

non-clinical services provided by public health are a good scope (hospital catering, for example). I leave aside the new services that may be included in public coverage and now pay part or not provided (extending dental coverage, podiatry, ophthalmology, etc.) With a rate lower than cost, what is done is to increase grant and reduce the price that we paid out. This is not to only reduce copayments.