I recently presented at the Ohio Society of Fire Service Instructors Symposium in Columbus, Ohio. My three presentations were:

• Trends in Online Education for Emergency Responders
• Creating Social Media Content for Fire and EMS Education
• Learning Management Systems for Small Fire Departments

John Dillon from C3Softworks helped me integrate audience polling into my PowerPoint presentations. I also deployed a Jeopardy style game using Bravo with virtual audience response pads using a really cool product called Ping. I plan to do more audience polling and game based teaching in future presentations.

You can view my slides from the Learning Management Systems for Small Fire Departments presentation.

I frequently speak at national and regional Fire and EMS conferences about elearning, social media, and learning management systems. My audiences are usually agency leaders and educators with more than 10 years of experience. Inquire about my topics and availability to speak in your event’s leadership or educator track by emailing me at greg at gregfriese dot com. 

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I am in Dallas, Texas for the annual EMS Expo presented by EMS Magazine, EMSResponder.com, and Cygnus Business Media. This is the biggest EMS show of the year and I am really looking forward to the time with friends, visiting with CentreLearn prospects and clients, and learning about the newest products and techniques available to EMS professionals.

Conference Presentations

I have two scheduled conference presentations. Thursday morning I am presenting on Trends in Online Education. Friday morning I present on using Social Networking for Personnel Management and Training. I am  passionate about both of these subjects so my primary challenge is to determine what to leave out.

During the presentations I will be asking the audience to participate by answering questions with “audience response pads.” I plan to use their answers to guide the depth of my discussion. I am also asking some questions to get to know the audience better. I really appreciate John Dillon from C3Softworks.com sharing 120 audience response pads with me. I also will be using a PowerPoint theme from my good friend Kyle Bates.

Social Media Creation

I am really excited for the live recordings of the EMSEduCast podcast that I will be doing at the ZOLL podcasting studio. I am partnering with other podcasts in the ProMed network to bring the conversations of EMS Expo to our regular audience. Scheduled guests include Mic Gunderson, Dan Limmer, and Kelly Grayson.

I will also be regularly updating Twitter and Facebook during the conference. During sessions back channel communications have the ability to bring the conference program to non-attendees and create interaction among attendees. If you want to follow my Tweets follow @gfriese and the Twitter hashtag #EMSExpo.

Other Appearances

On Thursday I have two additional appearances. The JEMS.com booth is hosting bloggers to meet their audience. I am a little suspicious of the label “Hottest EMS Bloggers” but nonetheless looking forward to meeting with readers of EverydayEMSTips.com as well as my other blogging efforts, like Blog.CentreLearn.com.

At 4 pm on Thursday I will leading a mini education session at the ZOLL Medical booth. ZOLL is a great supporter of EMS Social Media efforts, such as blogs and podcasts. My topic is “3 Ways to Monitor your Social Media Presence.” It will be a quick hitting 15 minutes with three actionable ideas individuals and agencies should be doing to starting monitoring their social media presence and efforts.

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Somebody asked me recently if I thought games could be used to teach. Of course I think games, of all types, can be used to teach. Listen to paramedic and educator John Dillon talk about how he uses games to teach in this video. Also, John and I collaborate on the monthly EMS1.com game.

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John was also the guest on EMSEduCast episode 34 – talking about using games to teach.

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Join emergency response educators, Greg Friese and John Dillon, for a quick introduction on using games to teach and Audience Response Pads. There will be no preamble. Instead we will jump into how you can use games to teach core content. Participants will use virtual response pads during the Webinar as John demonstrates through interactive examples how games and audience response pads can help you know what your audience knows and how you can use that information. We will also show you how you can use a game to deliver information effectively to your audience while keeping them engaged in the learning process.

Title: Using Games to Teach. Breathe Life into Your Presentation!
Date: Wednesday, November 4 or November 11, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Cost: none

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

November 4 session: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/585912760

November 11 session: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/540099969

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

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