1. Online Resources Workshop 5th December 2003 Mark Hill

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3. An Online Example Pros and Cons of preparing online material –Which I should not specifically identify (deep learning) –If I tell you (shallow?)

4. 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 termwww.google.com 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)

5. 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 termwww.google.com 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?

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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 labafter lab

9. 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…..

10. The Result…. Site Map (1997) http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/embryo/Series.htm

11. 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

12. 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/

13. Coordinated Project –Approvals to publish Previously published Research materials Links to external materials –PubMed, OMIM, Lecture/Lab Materials Statistics Site Map (version 2)

14. Project Development Add Dynamics –Movies –Animations –Ultrasounds

15. Project Development Add Dynamics –Movies –Animations –Ultrasounds

16. Project Development Add Dynamics –Movies –Animations –Ultrasounds

17. 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

18. 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

19. Project Development Thoughts Unforeseen problems –Email, spam, distribution, republication Some things just take too long to do –And are not worth the effort!

20. Project Development Hindsight –All about planning Funding –Infrastructure and software Flexible Get something out there! –“polishers”

21. Discussion and Questions Now the ITET4 Project………. Poster Talk in afternoon session