Learn about heart anatomy and physiology through the power of song…

More medical videos.

This online app could be use for students creating their own learning projects or for staff to create course notes and resources for their students.

I’ve just been updating Doctors’ Gadgets.com. The site has news and discussion about PDAs, EMR and other gadgets that doctors use.

It’s also the host to the video tutorials that accompany the RSM Press book, “The Doctors’ PDA and Smartphone Handbook“.

Interview with Brazilian TV by Nicholas Negroponte about the OLPC. He mentions that microsoft are working on a SD card for it that will allow it to run windows. Also talks about Intel’s new Eduwise low-cost laptop.

Microsoft are providing e-learning courses on their products for NHS staff.

If you work in the NHS and want to brush up on your IT skills, check it out.

I’m doing some research into the various synchronous e-learning tools around.

Here’s a couple I’ve looked at so far:

Netmeeting: Free tool that comes with windows - click start, run, type in ‘conf’ to run. You can chat, have video, share the desktop and have a virtual whiteboard. It’s pretty good but I have had problems setting up the audio and connecting to a netmeeting server.

Breeze (Acrobat Connect Professional): Flash based web-conferencing tool. You can join a meeting by simply opening up the webpage where the meeting is being held. Has video-conferencing, chat, VOIP, and everything you’d need to synchronous learning. Subscriptions are fairly expensive though.

Web-Ex: Similar to Breeze but uses a proprietary plug-in which you have to download before joining the meeting. Again subscriptions are fairly expensive.

I’ll be trying out several more applications over the next few weeks. If anyone has any experience with synchronous e-learning tools, please post any suggestions in the comments.

In particular, I’m looking for opinions about Elluminate, Interwise, Live Meeting and Centra.

Robin Good posts a list of trends that he believes will become prominent in 2007.

Includes, video, online advertising and video-conferencing.

Via Jane Knight’s Blog.

At the moment I’m looking into synchronous tools for e-learning applications. This means video-conferences, VOIP, etc.

Here’s a pretty neat application. Paste in a VOIP phone to your blog!

Try it out on the sidebar —>

Update - I’m removing the Wengo Vision plug in as it is causing significant delays to the page loading.

I’m leaving for MedNET 2006 tomorrow. If anyone wants to meet up drop me an email - chris@newmediamedicine.com, or post a comment on here.

I’m presenting about medical e-learning at 3pm on Tuesday and running workshop on PDAs on Tuesday evening.

I’ll be around all week, staying in the conference hotel.

I’ve been putting some of the Health Informatics course material into Blackboard today. Although it’s a bit unintuitive to get around, you can add content pretty easily and add tests and quizzes to the end of sections to reinforce learning objectives.

I did notice that on the Blackboard homepage, they seem to have patented concept of the LMS (learning management system). Read the press release here: http://www.blackboard.com/company/press/release.aspx?id=887622. This announcement seeems to have been taken rather badly by various internet pundits. Check out the reaction at slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1217219. A number of concerns are raised including what will happen to open source LMSs like Moodle.