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Introduction...

This Science Blog pulls together all Science related resources and applications;that have been included in John Dalziel's eMagazine, eMagazine Supplements, Blog (What DL is Happening?) and Audio Blog.

This is very much - work in progress; archived resources and applications are being transferred as time permits!

WikiPremed

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, July 19, 2010 , In : Nursing, Midwifery and Health & Social Care 

WikiPremed is a free online course designed to help learners prepare for standardized medical school entrance examinations; it will also help many other learners with undergraduate level general sciences.

The course itself is free although according to WikiPremed some elements of the course are best accomplished by purchasing some printed materials (Dead Trees!).

WikiPremed offers, among other things, a large gallery of drawings and images for teaching and learning concepts in...

  • chem...

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Inside Insides

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, July 19, 2010 , In : Life Sciences 

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods (MRI Scans of Food)

The Inside Insides blog features animated MRI scans of food which I'm sure has a number of uses in teaching & learning.

Visit http://insideinsides.blogspot.com/ to see what I mean.


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Conway's Game of Life!

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, July 19, 2010 , In : Biology 

I think I must be getting behind the times because I'd not heard of John Conway's Game of Life!

However I came across sixfoottallrabbit's implementation of John Conway's Game of Life using the HTML 5 canvas element.

The Game of Life is a cellular automation!

"What does that mean?"

It means that it consists of a grid of cells which can be in one of a finite number of states. Given any state, there are rules that govern what the next state of the grid will be.

We are looking at l...


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Animated Explanations

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, June 27, 2010 , In : Animations 

Animated Explanations is a website for finding animated explanations of topics and concepts in the fields of...

  • health,
  • technology, and
  • work.
There are some excellent animations that can be used to enhance teaching and learning especially for WBL practitioners.
Visit http://www.animatedexplanations.com/ to find out more.

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Open Heart

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, June 20, 2010 , In : Medicine 

With Open Heart, learners can perform, among other things, heart surgery, and learn a lot about how the heart works in the process.

Open Heart has lots of interactive components to help teach about the structure and function of the heart. Learners can...

  • put together the pieces of the heart,
  • make it pump by correctly identifying the blood-flow pathway,
  • diagnose patients, and
  • performing bypass surgery (virtually, that is).

In each section there is clear readable, easy-to-understan...


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Harvard University's Life Science Outreach Program

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, June 3, 2010 , In : Life Sciences 

I'm sure Science practitioners will want to review the resources found on Harvard University's Life Science Outreach Program website.

The Life Science Outreach Program contains teacher-created resources covering...

  • Physiology;
  • Microbiology;
  • Regenerative Biology;
  • Evolution;
  • Neurobiology;
  • Immunology; and
  • the Biology of Cancer.

For each area of study, Lesson Plans covering a variety of topic areas. Many of these "lessons" include supporting...

  • PowerPoints;
  • Lecture Videos; and
  • Scientifi...

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Sciyo

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 , In : Publications 

The costs of textbooks and scholarly journals continue to rise, so it is nice to find websites like Sciyo; Sciyo is valuable to cash-strapped science learners.

Sciyo is a free service that allows scientists to publish their works and connect with other authors.

  • Works published on Sciyo are made available for free to visitors.
  • Visitors can download works as PDFs.
  • There are currently 211 free books on Sciyo.

Note: In the future videos will also be available on Sciyo.

Visit ht...
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OE-CAKE

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 , In : Physics 

OE-CAKE acts as a physics-based paint program.

Users can insert objects and see them interact under the laws of physics.

OE-CAKE has an advanced fluid simulator with support for things such as...

  • gases;
  • rigid objects; and
  • elastic materials.

As usual, before I include anything in a blog/podcast/eMagazine etc., I've had a play and found it both intuitive (in part perhaps, because I taught Physics in the past) and impressive.

It is an ideal tool for use on an interactive white bo...


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Tiny Eyes

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, April 30, 2010 , In : Nursing, Midwifery and Health & Social Care 

Ever wondered how a baby sees the world? Many believe that babies

see in black and white, others think that they do not see at all.

TinyEyes is an online image manipulation tool that simulates what a baby sees during the different stages of their development.

To use TinyEyes...

  • Click the “Try it!” link; found at the top of the homepage;
  • Select the age of the child, who’s vision that you want to see, from the drop-down menu;
  • Enter the distance in inches from the child;
  • Uplo...

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Virtual eye dissection

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, April 30, 2010 , In : Biology 

Another interactive resource and tutorial for Biologists; this time it concentrates on the eye and all its parts.

Visit http://www.eschoolonline.com/company/examples/eye/eyedissect.html to try it out.


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John Dalziel
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John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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