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Second Life and medical education

kgray — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:44:54 +0000

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 SL wiki http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Health_Education

SL roundtable in March on health education and medical training http://audiocourses.pbwiki.com/medic_150307

SL healthcare support and education mailing list (and archives) https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/healthcare

Three sources of blogging in, about, for or with SL

http://scienceroll.com/2007/04/16/medicine-in-second-life-virtual-doctors-hospitals-and-of-course-sperm-donation/

http://secondlifemedicallibrary.blogspot.com/

https://blogs.usask.ca/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=248&search=second+life

… and a heart murmur sim for SL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJY2Iwbzop4&eurl=

Why we should be designing more games.

billylee — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:12:39 +0000

… to help create the next generation of better surgeons.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/02/19/surgery.games.reut/

Lay intro to Web 2.0

tpetrovic — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:14:27 +0000

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.

Right at whose finger tips?

rlchang — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:26:11 +0000

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 the visually impaired (no raised keys) and those with limited physical mobility. Granted, these issues might be addressed before the product is released. However, they still raise questions for educational designers who might aim to include this kind of interface in educational technology.

More creative ways to use podcasting in HE

kgray — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:46:47 +0000

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 overlooking the significant influence that podcast creation tools are developing in education… Especially in the schools sectors, podcasts are being created mainly as experiential, authentic, group based, constructivist learning experiences. The providing of information to others is a secondary and lesser purpose.” p.21 in Atkinson, R. (2006, December). Podcasting: Do you really need to know? HERDSA News 28(2), 20-21.

My ASCILITE 2006 photo album

kgray — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:03:12 +0000

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.

Take two aspirins and blog in the morning

kgray — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:47:44 +0000

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 others’ ideas about what effective deployments might be. Ref: Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education, by Maged N Kamel Boulos, Inocencio Maramba and Steve Wheeler in BMC Medical Education 2006, 6:41 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/6/41.

Welcome to the BMU blog.

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