Medical elearning
This is a collection of various interesting posts all over the internet. Most of these posts are NOT authored , but just collected here by me.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Exploring Virtual Worlds for Scenario-Based Repeated Team Training of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Medical Students
This is the abstract only. Read the full article on the JMIR site. JMIR is the leading open access journal for eHealth and healthcare in the Internet age.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Access Dermatology - free multimedia educational site by Reuters
The Scientific Skills section includes:
- Webcasts of congress and other scientific meetings sessions
- Breaking News - drug development, diagnosis and treatment, congress highlights, symposia webcasts, keynote speaker interviews
- Core Papers - series of articles on disease, treatment and novel therapeutic approaches
- Clinical Trials - a guide to key clinical trials in dermatology
This is the link to the Advisory Board of the website. The project is sponsored by Prous Science S.A.U., a part of Thomson Reuters.
The access to most of the resources requires free registration.
References:
Breaking news
Clinical Trials
Congress Reports
Friday, July 2, 2010
New Tools for Educators in Second Life
What new tools for educators are breathing life into Second Life?
HTML on a Prim
In Second Life, sharing websites has been slightly cumbersome. In the old-old days, the only way to do it was to open a browser outside the SL platform. While not terribly taxing, it was a pain for students to toggle back and forth.
Those days are long gone, and improvements and upgrades allowed you to set a parcel to a specific web page for viewing, but NOW you can actually WRITE ON the prim, click it, use YouTube, search for images, Google, check email, or even edit a collaborative wiki.
This is an uber cool feature for teachers because it allows them to use a wiki as a live chalkboard. While students will have to refresh their views to see updates, they won’t have to leave Second Life to do it. Sweeeet.
Easy Peasy Menu
In the old viewer, the infamous pie wheel appeared when you right-clicked on yourself. Now, life is not so complicated. There is a menu bar on the right side that hosts all of the options you will need as a new or advanced user.
This is truly helpful to teachers because most of the initial class time spent in world was devoted to trying to show students how to find things like their inventory (hair is really important in creating your second self!). Everything a new resident needs is on this new side menu.
People Locator
One of the fair criticisms of Second Life is that there is never anybody in it. That isn’t actually true, since 65,000 users are always logged in and millions of people have accounts. The problem is, like in real life, people are scattered and pockets of people are hard to find. It isn’t any different than real life; if you were to go to a bank at 3AM, you would hope to find it empty.
Since Second Life is a 24 hour operation with people from every corner of the earth, there is a great chance you are logged in at a time when other folks are sleeping. The new people locator helps you find the hot spot pockets of people. If you want to send your students to do a survey or to observe avatar behavior, they can simply click on the people finder and teleport to the nearest cluster of people.
Easy TalkThe new viewer includes a much easier way to use the voice system. Now there is one simple button to push, and you are able to chat away with your students. The old menu wasn’t hard, but it was a bit cumbersome and not at all intuitive. This one-button approach will help students get connected instantly.
Educators in Second Life
Educators will love the new Second Life viewer because it is easier to use and more functional. Less time will be spent showing students how to wear shoes, and more time can be spent working in groups on collaborative content.
Lots of seasoned SL bloggers have been discussing the new viewer, and experienced users have mixed emotions about the new look and feel of it. How do you feel about the new viewer? Do you think it will be easier for educators to use, or should Linden Lab tweak it a bit before it goes out of Beta?
Image credit: Daniel Voyager
From- MakeUseOf.com
Friday, May 28, 2010
Because Every Country Is The Best At Something
International number ones
Data: http://bit.ly/IntNoOnes
Note: Roll over the main image to see the countries.
DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Chris J Hall, Alexia Wdowski, Pearl Doughty White, Caroline Flynn, James Key (yes it was a lot of work!)
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: NationMaster.com, The CIA World FactBook, Wikipedia, FAO @ The UN, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Using Digital Storytelling for Creative and Innovative e-Learning
Using Digital Storytelling for Creative and Innovative e-Learning:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Facebook for Learning
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This week's learning session explored Facebook and how we can use it to facilitate learning. As expected, thanks to the juicy topic 'Facebook', we had a full house (e-learning lab, I mean!). Only 25 were allowed to register, but we ended up with 32 participants, which just illustrates that Facebook is an interesting topic.
LET'S DO IT!
Based on our recent poll the majority of both Academic staff (66.7) and students (67.8) that participated think that IMU should use Facebook for e-learning.
But, where to start?
To get your Facebook social learning space moving, why not for starters create a 'Facebook Group' (especially if you want to have a closed group)?
STEP-BY-STEP
Here are two screencast tutorials exploring how to create a Facebook Group and how we could use it to facilitate learning:
Part 1 - Creating a 'Facebook Group'
Part 2 - Exploring Facebook Group Features
But...
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By- ZaidLearn
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