1. Scientific Sleuthing of Human Disease for High School Teachers Pathology Resources on the Web and How to Use Them

2. Peter G. Anderson, DVM, PhD Professor & Director of Pathology Undergraduate Education University of Alabama at Birmingham Scientific Sleuthing

3. Why Use Web-based Resources? Teachers “Spice-up” topics Add “color” to teaching materials Students Self-learning opportunities Independent investigation Develop searching skills

4. Why Use Pathology Resources? This has been well covered by previous speakers Add personal relevance In my unbiased opinion: “The study of disease is cool!”

5. How to Find Resources? Internet search engines Google, Yahoo, etc Search terms? “Patient Education” Web-sites Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Cancer, HIV, etc.

8. © HeartPoint “Heart Point”

9. Why Use Pathology Resources? Make lessons “disease” specific!

10. Normal Lung Smoker’s Lung with Cancer

11. Pathology Image Databases

13. Pathology Education Instructional Resource (PEIR)

22. Shopping Cart

24. National Library of Medicine Medical Meta-thesaurus Database with hundreds of thousands of synonyms for medical terms Online Medical Thesaurus

27. How to Find Resources? Internet search engines Google, Yahoo, etc Search terms? “Patient Education” Web-sites Diabetes, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Cancer, HIV, etc. Science Resource Database UAB MERIT

41. Conclusions Web resources are easily accessible and can be used to enliven instruction Remember: The most important part is not technology... it’s you – the teacher!

42. Good teaching may overcome a poor choice in the use of technology, but technology will never save bad teaching; usually it makes it worse. - Tony Bates (Technology, Open Learning & Distance Education, 1995) Conclusions

43. http://peir.net pga@uab.edu Questions?