Online Resources Workshop

5th December 2003

Online Resources Workshop

5th December 2003

Mark Hill

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Web: http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/cbl.htmEmail: m.hill@unsw.edu.au

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…..

The Result…. Site Map (1997)

http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/embryo/Series.htm

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

Project Development

• Add Dynamics– Movies– Animations– Ultrasounds

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Project Development

• Add Dynamics– Movies– Animations– Ultrasounds

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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”

Discussion and QuestionsNow the ITET4 Project……….

PosterTalk in afternoon session

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