Thursday, December 16, 2010

Check Out the New Google Body Browser

Google has just released its new Body Browser, a detailed 3D model of the human body that allows you to view various anatomical systems such as the nervous system, muscle structure, organs, etc. One can zoom in or search via key word to identify organs. The site indicates that one can create a URL that will allow you to send someone else to the exact view you are seeing.

One must have the latest Google Chrome Beta version of the browser installed but that is free and only takes a few minutes to load. Check it out at http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

AERA Curriculum Studies (Division B) Newsletter

Bill Ayers, Vice-President of AERA Division B - Curriculum Studies has announced that the division now has a new website http://www.curriculumstudies.net/ and a new Division B Newsletter known as "The Well-Spring." The site and newsletter are available to all regardless of whether or not they are AERA members. The current issue has many interesting features including a book review by Professor William Schubert from the Curriculum Studies Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a thought-provoking message on Art, Democracy, and Education by the recently retired Dr. Ayers. To access the newsletter, go to the site above and click "Newsletter Archive" in the menu bar at the top of the page. It's "well" worth your visit. --Jerry

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

GME (Residency Education) Discussion at ISTE

A group of University of Kentucky Second Life researchers and their colleagues will discuss their work using Second Life for medical resident education at the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) speaker series in Second Life on Tuesday May 25. Thanks to Beth Kramer from UK for posting the following information regarding the presentation to the Second Life Education Listserv.

Title: The Doctor is In(world)
Venue: ISTE Island Auditorium: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/204/46/23
Date: Tues, May 25
Time: 5:00 PM SLT (7:00 PM Chicago)

Avatar presenters:
Vincent Hillburton (Mark Thomas)
Ingram Gericault (Mark Ryder)
Bobb Kalamunda (Bob Hutchins)
Sammantha Raymaker (Sandra Challman)

Description: The small group seminar has long been the mainstay of medical resident education. Second Life offers an opportunity to bring groups of avatar residents and faculty from different institutions together to share clinical cases, best evidence, and insights on patient management strategies. That vision led to a series of in-world seminars between the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry (UKCD) and College of Medicine and Baylor College of Dentistry and, later, UKCD and the University of California (San Francisco) School of Dentistry. Dental students and faculty from these institutions met in-world in a conference room created on the UK Island. The faculty involved in these sessions will discuss their experiences and feedback from their residents and speculate on the role of SL in medical residency training programs.