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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...

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...

Human & Animal Health: WellcomeTrust

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, January 10, 2010, In : Nursing, Midwifery and Health & Social Care

The Wellcome Trust, an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health, has a number of web presences that are well worth a visit.

They include, among other things...

Three YouTube Channels...
- Wellcome Film: a channel at YouTube where they are posting archival medical films and films about the archive e.g. Cruel Kindness are films from the 1960s about childhood obesity
  
  http://www.youtube.com/wellcomefilm#p/p.
- Wellcome Trust: Videos of the research that the Wellco...

Nursing, midwifery and health & social care

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, In : Nursing, Midwifery and Health & Social Care

Teaching or studying nursing, midwifery or health and social care?

Intute has recently released new or completely updated free Internet tutorials in your subject area!

The updated...

Internet for Nursing, <http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/nursing>
Internet for Health and Social Care <http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/healthandsocialcare> and...

the brand new...

Internet for Midwifery <http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/midwifery>

...can be found either in the Virtual T...

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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.