online resources workshop 5th december 2003 mark hill
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An Online Example
• Pros and Cons of preparing online material– Which I should not
specifically identify (deep learning)
– If I tell you (shallow?)
Lets do something 1• Pretend you are a student…wanting to find out
something• Now do a Google search (www.google.com) of the
internet using your subject/topic as the search term
Q: How many results do you get? (1000s)Q: Did the first search get anything useful for your
topic? (maybe)Q: How are you as a student meant to gather and
sort information? (look at first pages, course handout or Lecturer will indicate)
Lets do something 2• Pretend you are a student…wanting to find out
something about “embryology”• Now do a Google search (www.google.com) of the
internet using your subject/topic as the search term
Q: How many results do you get?Q: Did the first search get anything useful for your
topic?Q: How are you as a student meant to sort
information?
Background 1
• 1995 Embryology Teaching– Medicine (200) and Science (30)
students• 1 lecture and 1 lab/week
– Lab• Understand development by looking at 2 key
embryo time-points (Carnegie stage13, stage 22)
Background 2
• 1995 Embryology Laboratory– Tools
• Microfiche readers, lab manual, tutors– Lab
• Identify specific structures/relationships from serial sections of the embryo
• Small groups grappled with “technology”• Tutors answered the same questions
repeatedly
Online……
• 1996 Planned to put the serial sections online– so students work independently– In and out of laboratory times– Label structures needed in specific labs
lab timeBefore lab after lab
The Process….
1. Scan microfiche sections (Scanner)2. Cleanup (Photoshop)3. Label (Clarisdraw/Photoshop)4. Scale to fit available screen
(Photoshop)5. Generate html pages (Claris
Homepage)6. Put online…..
Initial Feedback
• Existing Teaching– Great resistance to change
• Technology– Learning to use computers to navigate– Breakdowns, network– Continues to change
• Web logs– Showed page use/access/time
• Surveyed Students
Student Feedback
• Groups worked better in Lab• Wanted
– Stage information– additional structures (identified by tutor)
labelled– Better access– Better structured information– Answers to Exam, full marks for everything they
do, chocolate, beer…..
http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/embryo/
• Coordinated Project– Approvals to publish
• Previously published• Research materials• Links to external
materials– PubMed, OMIM,
• Lecture/Lab Materials• Statistics
Site Map (version 2)
Project Development
• Add Dynamics– Movies– Animations– Ultrasounds
QuickTime™ and aCinepak Codec by Radius decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and aVideo decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Project Development
• Add Dynamics– Movies– Animations– Ultrasounds
QuickTime™ and aGraphics decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and aGraphics decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Project Development
• Online and On CD– Restructured site, allow links to work from CD– Organise CD pressing, artwork, distribution– Changes with changing technology
• WebCT– Linked in materials to WebCT version of courses
• Medicine, Science• http://www.webct.unsw.edu.au/
• Distributed Internationally
Project Development Thoughts
• Now up to Version 3– On web, CD and other Universities
• Need good Project skills– Coordination, planning
• Students “short term memory”– Very short (except when things go
wrong)
• Grows in unexpected directions
Project Development Thoughts
• Unforeseen problems– Email, spam, distribution, republication
• Some things just take too long to do– And are not worth the effort!
Project Development
• Hindsight– All about planning
• Funding– Infrastructure and software
• Flexible• Get something out there!
– “polishers”