Browsing Archive: June, 2010

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...

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...

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.

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John Dalziel

Liverpool

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.