Category: Teaching

  • Podcasting

    See? We’re doing it, really, we’re doing it. OK, we’re a little slow, but we’ll get there. It would help if I could follow simple instructions to the end though.

  • Movements of the Hand

    I’ve finished preparing a new elearning project, with much of the work done by some very talented students from the School of Digital Media at the Swansea Institute of Higher Education. The project deals with the movements of the hand and looks at some of the nerves and muscles involved. It doesn’t review the fine…

  • Blooper reel

    I’ve been finishing up an anatomy elearning project that I will be making available over the next couple of weeks. To give you a taste, here are a couple of bloopers from some of the filming… (Click for video.)

  • Morgan!

    Jo and Morgan popped in today to say hi. Morgan is 12 weeks old now. I wonder if he’s started to think about his letter to Father Christmas yet.

  • Podcasts

    I’m not podfading, honest. Rhiannon Fish has agreed to co-host the remaining embryology podcasts, and we’re waiting for a second microphone to arrive. As soon as that happens I reckon we’ll rattle them out.

  • Swansea gets a full 4-year Medicine Programme

    It was very recently announced that the teaching of medicine to Swansea students will be performed entirely within the School of Medicine and the NHS Trust in Swansea. Currently students study for 2 years in Swansea and then another 2 years in clinical placements around Wales as part of the Cardiff University All-Wales Scheme. The…

  • UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube

    UC Berkeley are using YouTube to share lectures in a video format. CNet reports “The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web’s No.1 video-sharing site. “Berkeley officials claimed in a statement that the university is the first to make full course lectures available on YouTube. The school…

  • Clinical Skills Video Podcast

    In addition to downloading specially crafted clinical skills training videos from Blackboard (if you’re a Swansea University medicine student) you can now access them through iTunes in a format ready for your portable video player. More videos will be released through the teaching year. Subscribe to the video podcast using iTunes.

  • Clinical skills videos

    The embryology podcasts have been well received, and we’re working to add to those, to improve them, and to glitz them up a bit. How would you like to see clinical skills demonstration videos in a podcast format on your iPod (or other popular mp4 player)? The videos are already available on Blackboard to Swansea…

  • New students

    This week a new batch of 72ish students start the Swansea Graduate Entry Medicine programme. It’s a nice easy induction week, followed by 3 weeks of introductory teaching and then 12 weeks of hard, hard work (for both students and staff). Good luck to you all, and I hope you’ll enjoy the course and the…