200 Medical texts in one device
KINDLE, the new device from Amazon is an easy to use digital book reader. http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/kindle-e-book-reader-by-amazon-you-can.html
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November 28, 2007
November 26, 2007
Artifacts of Learning
I just came across this link on Science Roll http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/25/anatomical-heart-mad.html
Nathan Sawaya's 2003 sculpture "Sweet Heart" is an anatomically correct 3D heart made from hundreds of Necco Conversation Hearts. Says the artist, "I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day. It is a made up holiday and makes more people feel sad than happy. It can make your heart feel vulnerable. Almost edible." Link (via Neatorama)
This is a great example of how creative students can be.
November 14, 2007
Active Learning Blog Carnival
The Active Learning Blog Carnival is looking for submissions for the Dec. 07 edition. http://activelearningcarnival.blogspot.com/ Scroll down to the bottom of the article to find a link to the submission site.
Real Medical Students of Genius
Medical Students at the University of Maryland class of 2006 have created a series of skits called Real Medical Students of Genius. Here is a sample called "Mr. Always Prepared for Everything Guy" Click twice to play.
To see the whole series go to http://www.youtube.com/user/adamfp01
If my life was a cartoon
Cartoons can engage students in learning. Here are some tools for creating cartoons:
Scutmonkey is a cartoonist/medical student who takes stories from medical education and converts them to cartoons.
http://www.theunderweardrawer.org/scutmonkey.html
Here is an easy to use tool for creating content that looks like multi-frame cartoons, Comic Life at http://plasq.com/ In under 30 minutes, I made a simple 5 frame version to explain how to teach a procedure.
Here is a less sophisticated version that makes a single frame cartoon http://www.txt2pic.com/comic-strip/doctor.htm Here is a sample I made.
