Fun with drawing and a play on words

This week, for INTE 6710, I learned to draw.

Seriously. I’ll prove it.

I was as skeptical as anyone who knows me well would have been as well. Sure, there was a time when I could have been a contender as a musician, but that was last century. Regardless, even then, I was never much one for the graphic arts.

Watching the following TED talks by Ole Qvist-Sorensen and Graham Shaw about the utility and ease of creative expression and the fetters we place on ourselves when thinking of our own creativity made me a believer. The thing that struck me the most, being a realist and often a literalist, is how easily a concept can be conveyed without necessarily drawing in every detail. Building a simple cartoon out of easily rendered, modular components is actually pretty easy, as Graham Shaw demonstrates.

Just to show you how easy it is, here is my graphic representation of how to make (a) toast. Maybe not strictly to the letter of the assignment, but hopefully close enough.

 

Communication strategy in the pulmonary/critical care division at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

I’m sitting in a conference room at the Westin Riverfront in Avon, CO for our division retreat. We’ve undergone a lot of changes, and this is our opportunity to get up to date and to contribute to the future direction of this academic division. We’ve hired a new communication director who is looking for ways to get our message out and to improve our visibility, including tapping various social media outlets. This is a remarkably progressive step for an otherwise stodgy and inertial division. I’m excited to get involved with this project in light of what I’ve been learning in Social Media and Digital Cultures.

Innovate. Educate. Online.

My goal is to innovate in medical education using the online medium to enhance preclinical, clinical, and postgraduate medical education.