dIn certification on the topic and I think it would help others.” To my local Rotary Club or the coordinator of Career Day for my kids, “Sure, I have been working on my public speaking and I would be pleased to share my passion for food safety with your audience. I will see you Friday!” Corresponding Author: Darryl Booth, General Manager, Environmental Health, Accela, 2633 Camino Ramon #500, San Ramon, CA 94583. E-mail: dbooth@accela.com “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” Albert Einstein
Example of Uploading a PDF of a Recent Journal of Environmental Health Issue Into a Free Text-to-Speech Software Program FIGURE 1
Acrobat Reader also features a text-to- speech option. Further, iPhone or Android phone devices have this capability. Check the accessibility settings on your phone to see what is possible. If you needed to do the opposite—take a podcast and turn it into a text document— that is possible, too. For two semesters I taught a university class while a professor friend took his sabbatical. It was a topic with which I was familiar, but not practiced. For modest pay, I subjected myself to the same textbook, lecture notes, and examples as my students. We entered a laboratory setting and together pursued the concepts for that lecture. What I observed was that learning to learn has high value. Learning to teach sets a higher standard. If you are like me, it is in the teach- ing that the best learning occurs. If you can Teaching Others What You Have Learned
embrace the premise of this column—that unlimited learning is available to us all—then your call to action is to embrace it fully by first learning and then by teaching others. To me, this idea means putting into the world your newfound knowledge through practice, advocacy, and teaching what you have learned to others. I promise it will be very fulfilling. To a colleague in the hallway, “I learned recently that most websites and PDFs can be turned into audio. Guess what? I now listen to the JEH while I drive to conduct inspections.” To my program manager or director, “What do you think about launching a lunch-and- learn where our team eats sack lunches in the conference room while we take turns present- ing on a topics of interest? I’ll start because the July/August JEH had a great article on training.” To my regional environmental health asso- ciation or the NEHA Annual Educational Conference (AEC) & Exhibition Education Committee, “I would love to do a session on using AI in the oce. I just finished a Linke-
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