Showing posts with label Anatomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anatomy. Show all posts

Monday, December 9, 2013

Last year, Mr. Anderson embarked on a problem-based learning opportunity for his Anatomy students.

Read.

This year, Mr. Anderson invited my to his classroom for the final days of the learning environment.  Students were introduced to a patient.  That patient was shown an informational iMovie describing the body part that was being affected.  The iPad provided a great conversation starter between the patient and the students. Within that movie, students provided factual information along with specific footage of the students describing the body parts functions. (Special thanks to Mr. Gosse for being a patient)

Video Link


Impact On Students:
Collaboration: Students worked in partners to develop an information iMovie that would provide patients with some of the knowledge they needed to understand what was ailing them.
Creativity: Students need to use a multi-media approach complete with audio, video, and still images to convey information in a clear and concise manner.
Critical Thinking: Students experienced a wealthy of information and placing the correct information into the video was vital.  In addition, students needed to transfer the knowledge they had of the body parts to the patient while having a conversation.  It wasn't all about the technology.  Students needed to critically think about the most important information and provide that to the patient.


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The Essential Skeleton 2 iPad app provides every student with a model skeleton that can be used to learn and master the bones and all their features.  Mr. Anderson believes this app is a great app especially in large classes.

Some benefits include of the app:
  • Seeing individual bones
  • Rotate bones 360 degrees
  • 3-Dimensional
  • Full model for each student (great for larger classes)
  • Mobile
  • Highlight individual bones
  • Identify and isolate an individual bone away from the full model
  • Annotation tools
  • Zoom In & Out 
  • Screen shot for Pic Collage and SMORE
  • Correct audio pronunciation
  • Multiple search options
  • Exporting options of annotated objects
  • Quick Reference to all skeleton parts
  • Quiz Set Up-multiple choice & free response


ITLS: Standard 3
The impact on the students...

  • Collaboration--N/A
  • Creativity--Combined with SMORE or Pic Collage provides for creative finished product of concepts learned
  • Critical Thinking--Quiz format for analyzing aspects
  • Citizenship--if documents are shares, students will understand that their creations are visible by the world.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Mr. Anderson, Anatomy Teacher at PHS, wanted a means for online discussions of informational text.  The Google Groups has a number of great features that allows it to not distract learning, but only to enhance it.
  • Usable on the iPad in Google Chrome
  • Chromebook & Laptop User Friendly
  • No need for additional username & password as we are a Google Apps For Education school
  • Threaded conversation allows for quick replies to students or teacher
  • Able to upload documents (informational text) for analyzing
View Mr. Anderson speaking of the process and see students using Google Groups...


Setting Up Google Groups - Video Tutorial


Video Link

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

An example of a student using Skitch and iMovie to help a patient diagnosis their medical condition.

Of course, this was only a PBL situation, and the patient did not really have any medical condition.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

View the details of the project and how the students are working.  After the videos are complete, the students will be using the videos they created to assess a real person's injuries!


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