MyCaseSpace - a tool for diagnosing illnesses (I think) - small case study, differential diagnostics, additional information, medical history, physical exam, lab tests etc - of course very subject specific, but quite impressive (no cartoon in sight) - question again about maintenance and sustainability. Ask expert for help and all info linked to medical database. Score of performance on each of the stages.
Visual decision map for feedback and performance interesting (sorry screen grab so not the best - click on image to get a better look)
and then the words that make my heart sink: "I've built this myself for my own students and it runs from a SQL server"...just stopped short of - "under my desk". 15 minutes to develop/build a case. This is a really interesting tool but "enthusiast-dependent" and "high-tech staff member".
Keen to work with any participants to beta test/develop further.
Now here are a couple of interesting comments from the chat:
"This is a little unusual course development. You seem like a lone ranger with no collaborators, no other expert reviewers of your cases, no other technical assistance. Can you speak to how we might model your efforts in our institutions?"
"What kind of budget is involved in the creation of an application such as this, and did you face any obstacles in obtaining funding from your institution?"
His experience shows that the students respond disproportionately better to human avatars/photos rather than cartoons - find cartoons funny, unrealistics and don't have empathy with "patient" - so don't find it realistic/authentic. We should tell this to.....
As previous will add link to presentation when available
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Weird - your blog postings are the same as mine!
weird - or reassuring??
does it have to be an either/or choice? i'll go for weird *and* reassuring - but not saying which is which :)
here's a weird part of this experience - reading the notes both you and andrew have written about the same issues, not knowing which blog to respond on, but not wanting to post similar comments on both blogs. i'm easily confused...
What I want to know is just what all of you were "doing" there and what you "learnt" by doing it.
And it would really help to know because I'm still trying to figure that out for myself ;-). I don't think learning that most people think "crazy hair" when conjuring up a scientist in their heads really counts ;-).
@totally vavoom - I think we were doing what you were doing - back channels, half-ear listening, everyday stuff ;-)
I wanted to feel part of it, but I felt very very remote, I need more doing, more participation from today - the polls just made me spend time questioning the methodology and the question design.
Liz - post where you like - we're both reading both and not competing for comment counts :-)
it seems to be part of the "experience" too many channels, so much to say...not yet acquired super-human typing skills.
The parallel notes thing (without being physically in the same place as Andrew is revealing)
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