Coming to a Planet Near You

Tonight the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA are landing the Curiosity Mars rover on the red planet. To say the least, no easy feat. They have put out videos that not only created some great hype for this venture, but are also very engaging and accessible means of educating the public on the purpose of the mission and how they will accomplish it. 




Check out the JPL YouTube channel for more videos and also the NASA JPL website for plenty of interactive learning. The JPL also has some wonderful infographics and a tool for creating your infographics.


Good luck Curiosity!

Happy 4th of July - A Few Patriotic #eLearning Courses

Happy 4th of July everyone! I thought I would dig through the Free eLearning page for some of the US history courses in there. And here they are:

Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads – National Constitution Center

An Overview of American History (video) – Digital History

Constitutional Timeline - National Constitution Center

Native Words, Native Warriors (Codetalkers) – NMAI

The Supreme Court – CSPAN

U.S. History Timeline – Digital History

WASP: Women With Wings in WWII – NPR

We Choose the Moon

The White House – CSPAN

Electoral College – Disney Education

Find the Flags – NCFL

NASA 50 Years – NASA

Do you know of any courses that should be on the list? If so, let me know in the comment section.

Featured on eLearningLearning

I'm happy to announce the eLearningCyclops blog is now featured in the eLearningLearning community. If you are not familiar with eLearningLearning, it is an aggregation of elearning blogs. My prior blog, prior to migrating it to this new location, was also part of this community. As it was then, it is an honor to be among these fantastic blogs. Give eLearninLearning a visit and get a wide perspective of what's happening in the elearning world.


If you prefer to follow this community's posts on Twitter - your will find them at @eLearningPosts.

My New Location - eLearningCyclops

I am glad you found my blog's new home. Not only have I moved all my old MinuteBio posts, comments and pages over here, but I also renamed the blog to "eLearning Cyclops." So, while I hope you enjoy future blog posts, I also hope you continue to value its past posts and the Free eLearning and Cloud Apps pages.


I also updated my Twitter handle to @eLearninCyclops (same twitter feed, just a new name).


Thanks,
Jeff

Future location of eLearning Cyclops

Future location of eLearningCyclops (formerly the MinuteBio Blog)

The Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center

Last week, I had the pleasure of touring the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. This is a training center that uses numerous types of simulations - everything from live actors to mannequin and online sims. As I toured the center, I tweeted a few pictures and some notes, which I am sharing below.

Simulation Center's observation area for proctors.


Looking into one of the Simulation Center's examination rooms from observation area.

Simulation Center's Operating Room




Simulation Center Mannequin. They breathe, move, bleed, have a pulse, specific medical issues, etc. (the center has 20 total mannequins).


Programming the Simulation Center's Infant Mannequin


Infant Mannequin - These can also be delivered from a female mannequin including simulating a multiple births.


The Simulation Center is an extremely impressive training center and I was very pleased to have the opportunity to get a tour. You can learn more about the center at the following link - Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center.

I Saw a Virtual Patient at MedBiquitous

I am currently attending the MedBiquitous conference, which is hosted at Johns Hopkins (my employer) and focuses on how learning technologies can transform heath care education. Today, I attended some great sessions including one on using virtual patients in training. Several organizations shared the tools used develop these virtual worlds. One, CliniSpace, had a nice interface and from the demo appears to have an easy to use authoring mode. I was also impressed on how authors can quickly add or change scenarios on the fly during a simulation. Below is a video that gives a glance at CliniSpace's virtual world and its patients, doctors, nurses, etc.

CliniSpace Features from CliniSpace on Vimeo.

I am looking forward to seeing more exciting things at the next two days of the MedBiquitous conference. I am also tweeting (@minutebio) some of what I learn at the conference via its #medbiq2012 hash tag.