Biomedical Multimedia Unit News

I’ve been looking into what SL might have to offer education for medical and other health sciences professionals, since I heard the suggestion that it might be good for PBL. I though that notes of my preliminary researches might be of interest to others: 
Three places to find out more about who’s doing what:
Health education in [...]

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… to help create the next generation of better surgeons.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/02/19/surgery.games.reut/

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Recently a very clever short introduction to the meaning of web 2.0 was posted to you … if you guessed tube you’d be correct. The poster is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Michael Wesch from Kansas State University.
It’s very good.

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Following the entry on 20 Nov 2006 “Amazing Interface”, Billy’s noticed the multi-touch interface in Apple’s iPhone. While it’s still early, since no one’s had a chance to play with an iPhone yet, it’s interesting to note the initial concerns for accessibility that are popping up.
Advances such as this raise questions about accessibility for [...]

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OK, let’s reproduce lectures for flexible learning, but are there more creative ways to think about podcasting in higher education?  ”As a method of distribution, podcasting in likely to have only a minimal impact upon higher education teaching and learning… However, the lack of impact from podcasting as a method of distribution should not lead us into [...]

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What a great venue.
 The Sydney Conservatorium, outside and inside

and the magnificent Verbrugghen concert hall pipe organ
built at Orange, New South Wales in 1972 by Roger Pogson.

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A “highly accessed” debate article in the open access journal BMC Medical Education urges the use of web authoring tools, including shared use by students, clinicians and patients. The authors suggest that “If effectively deployed, wikis, blogs and podcasts could offer a way to enhance students’, clinicians’ and patients’ learning experiences.” I’d be very interested in [...]

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This is our first attempt at a more open way for the Unit to freely exchange ideas, and alert each other to things we think are cool, interesting, and generally useful. Of course, we’d like anyone who is interested to come on this journey with us, and feel free to add your comments at [...]

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