Stepping out of Isolation Circles with Web 2.0

Changing Medicine….infusion of Web 2.0 Tools

Web 2.0…and the long tail

Web Links to Digital Events

Web-based event-management service Eventful has opened a public portal to the inside virtual world of Second Life.

The Second Life Event calendar is indexed regularly by Eventful, which lists over 1600 searchable virtual happenings each month.

Virtual-world residents can travel directly to event locations via Eventful by clicking an embedded link in each entry containing exact coordinates.

Event-listings, which are updated regularly, can also be subscribed to in iCal and RSS format.

Example:

http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-005314493-8

Art Gallery Event

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MERLOT – one of the first LORs

MERLOT – one of the very first Learning Object Respositories…

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

It was a Spanish course contributed by Barbara Kuczun Nelson of Colby College that convinced me of the worth of Merlot.

Ojala que llueva cafe
Author: Barbara Kuczun Nelson
A guided-reading selection in Spanish based on a song by Dominican artist Juan Luis Guerra, optional…
Type: Tutorial
Date Added: Mar 02, 2001

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88706

The course is a guided-reading selection in Spanish based on a song by Dominican artist Juan Luis Guerra, with optional translation provided and related isolated practice provided for subjunctive with interactive responses.

The multimedia and culture- based visuals make his a very engaging educational tool. PLUS! A colorful photo gallery of Dominican scenes enhances the module.

Click here to go to this MERLOT course:

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/ojala/index.html

Go to Nelson’s website at Colby to see a list of 8 Web Study Modules

http://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/bknelson/

follow this link to study unit on Ecuador::

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/ecuador/index.html

Or,

Go to Nelson’s website at Colby to see a list of all 8 Web Study Modules

http://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/bknelson/

OpenSource LMS/CMS – MOODLE

What Is Moodle?

http://moodle.org/
2 California Campuses Choose MOODLE:

UCLA

CCLE Update, December 2006

In November, 2006, the UCLA Faculty Committee on Educational Technology decided that UCLA should converge on Moodle as the single open source platform for its common collaboration and learning environment (CCLE). The decision includes a commitment to remain engaged with the higher education community as it builds solutions for interoperability and cross-system collaboration. UCLA intends to continue as a Sakai Foundation member and, as capacity is available, to work with others in the Sakai, Moodle, and IMS communities who are interested in working on data, tool, and language interoperability solutions.

http://www.oit.ucla.edu/ccle/

UCLA plans to adopt Moodle as its institution-wide learning and collaboration environment, while also pledging to “continue as a Sakai Foundation member and … to work with others in the Sakai, Moodle, and IMS communities

http://edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2006/12/19/UCLA-to-adopt-Moodle

HUMBOLDT STATE

Humboldt State University

Located in Northern California at Arcata, Moodle is also HSU’s Course Management System. Moodle allows faculty to easily post course information, hold class discussions, communicate with students, and hold exams

online.http://www.humboldt.edu/~moodle/

http://www.humboldt.edu/~moodle/whatis.html

http://www.humboldt.edu/~cdc/

http://www.humboldt.edu/~humboldt/stories/

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MOODLE is a member of IMS Global Learning Consortium, along with Blackboard, D2L, Angel Learning, eCollege,
http://imsglobal.org/members.html

 

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MIT’s OpenCourseWare

OpenCourseWare ( OCW) publishes syllabi, course calendars, readings, exams and other study materials from over 1,100 MIT classes – “a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.”

MIT’s OCW model is beginning to spread. Tufts University has launched its own OpenCourseWare project, as has The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and several universities in Japan (see OCW Japan portal).

http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/08/the_open_source_curriculum_mit.html

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia dreams of a free curriculum – open, high quality course materials built by a grassroots movement of volunteers (much like the one that is building the web’s largest encyclopedia).

MIT Media Lab

First announced byMIT MEDIA Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte, now chairman of OLPC, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world’s children.

Negroponte, author of Being Digital, was one of those early

academics focusing on digital learning…like Red Burns at NYU,

and others.

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

http://laptop.org/

http://pedia.media.mit.edu/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

Medical Images, Videos Moving to YouTube & SL

Medical images and illustrations, long the mainstay in printed textbooks, are now moving into the digital realm, not just as CDs packaged with texts, but appearing on webpages, YouTube videos, and just starting to find their way to Second Life (SL) – the 3-D realm that may just be perfect for the medical imaging world.

Here are some samples from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRkKHXQW6g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDvbAvBLQuM

Nucleus Medical Art’s 3D medical animation shows the anatomy of a
typical cervical (neck) spine and intervertebral disc.

Nucleus Medical Art is a leading creator and licensor of medical
illustrations, 3D medical animations and interactive multimedia for
medical devices, pharmaceutical companies, education, biotechnology,
marketing agencies, lawyers, and more. Online at
http://www.nucleusinc.com/youtube.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B08itXiXok

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Just go to YouTube website on the Internet:

http://www.youtube.com

and put “medical illustrations” in the SEARCH box.

VNEC Second Life (SL)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crM5Ueo7Bto

The Virtual Neurological Education Centre (VNEC) has been developed as an experiential learning environment for health care professionals.

The SL site includes MRIs, etc. Having recently had several MRIs, it looks very familiar.