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Dear PharmMMs:
Please help, I have been invited (well, forced would be more accurate) to
give a presentation only 1 week from now about multimedia in pharmacy. I
will be speaking to others in the health sciences. Because my experience
is rather limited (but probably broadest of the pharmacy group here), your
insights (duly credited, of course) would be interesting to the audience.
Therefore, I hope you will please send me a message about what you
have developed, your experiences with or beliefs about the utility
and limitatins of MM in pharmacy; and/or your thoughts about where
we need to go.
Thank you for any help/ideas you have. Karan
P.S. Just want to give a public thank you to David Bourne for all of his
work on the Web, and to each of you who are also giving pharmacy a
presence on the Web.
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* Karan Dawson, R.Ph., M.S. Telephone: (206) 543-1030 *
* School of Pharmacy FAX: (206) 543-383 *
* University of Washington E-mail: kdawson.at.u.washington.edu *
* Box 357630 *
* Seattle, WA 98195-7630 *
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Karan: At Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy we have
developed some multimedia case-studies using Authorware which we use to
let students work through case studies on their own - at their own speed,
no intimidation, no fear of answering questions wrong (although we do
track individual student answers). This was developed to try to find a
less faculty intensive method for small group case studdies. While we
don't think that the primitive type cases that we have developed take the
place of faculty led case study discussions (yet!), they are certainly
beneficial as supplemental or remedial cases. It should be noted that the
students love doing the cases on the computer. We also use multimedia in
the classroom in place of overheads and slides. We are moving to a new
campus in Davie, Florida in June and hope to have much more in the way of
technological resources at that point. We are working on an on-line
Pharmacy Informatics course. While it is very early in development and
has not yet been approved by the curriculum committee, you can see the
initial workings at our home page:
http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/nova/cwis/centers/hpd/pharmacy/index.html
This can also be reached through http://www.nova.edu and follow the links
from academic centers to the Health Professions Division to Pharmacy.
My feeling is that the use of the Internet, technology, multimedia, etc.
will be imperative for information gathering, not only in pharmacy but in
all walks of life, in the near future. Pharmacists will definitely need
these skills to function as information turnover continues to increase
at such a fast rate. There is a short editorial in AJHP on Pharmacy and
the Internet by Catherine Klein (October, 1995) if you are including the
use of the Internet in your talk. Hope this helps. Good luck and feel
free to contact me if I can be of any further assistance. Lisa
Lisa Deziel-Evans, Pharm.D.
College of Pharmacy
Nova Southeastern University
(305) 949-4000 ext. 2318
PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS:
lisad.at.hpd.acast.nova.edu
On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Karan Dawson wrote:
> Dear PharmMMs:
>
> Please help, I have been invited (well, forced would be more accurate) to
> give a presentation only 1 week from now about multimedia in pharmacy. I
> will be speaking to others in the health sciences. Because my experience
> is rather limited (but probably broadest of the pharmacy group here), your
> insights (duly credited, of course) would be interesting to the audience.
>
> Therefore, I hope you will please send me a message about what you
> have developed, your experiences with or beliefs about the utility
> and limitatins of MM in pharmacy; and/or your thoughts about where
> we need to go.
>
> Thank you for any help/ideas you have. Karan
>
> P.S. Just want to give a public thank you to David Bourne for all of his
> work on the Web, and to each of you who are also giving pharmacy a
> presence on the Web.
>
> ******************************************************************
> * Karan Dawson, R.Ph., M.S. Telephone: (206) 543-1030 *
> * School of Pharmacy FAX: (206) 543-383 *
> * University of Washington E-mail: kdawson.at.u.washington.edu *
> * Box 357630 *
> * Seattle, WA 98195-7630 *
> ******************************************************************
>
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Hi Karen et al.
>Therefore, I hope you will please send me a message about what you
>have developed, your experiences with or beliefs about the utility
>and limitatins of MM in pharmacy; and/or your thoughts about where
>we need to go.
I have just finished a semester course (PK/Biopharm) in which I went from
chalk board, printed manual, graded homework, and laboratory to all
computer presented slides (non-graded homework, and printed manual). I used
Persuasion for most of the lectures (once or twice Astound). From
Persuasion slides I was able to open up HyperCard stacks and Excel
worksheets for more 'dynamic' calculations. I added sound clips (which
sound pretty good when I remember to turn the mute off), limited animation
(simple frames moving in one direction across the screen), photos, and
video clips. I set-up some of the lab experiments (infamous 'beaker'
experiments) and used a QuickTake digital camera and time-laps VCR
recording (personal VCR - home quality) input through a AV board on a
PowerMac 6100/60 AV. The video files were rather large but effective. The
photo files were much smaller A lot of work but great fun. I felt happier
presenting the material. I didn't get much feedback from the students
unfortunately but I think the material was well received. Course
evaluations aren't back yet??? Grades were probably about the same. It's a
nice medium and I look forward to expanding on the base I have developed.
I am also in the process of converting this material to presentation via
the WWW (thanks to a GAPS grant). I have all the material in very rough
form hidden behind a password but have the first 6 chapters (in less rough
form - NOTE: still rough but less rough) available on:
http://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/gaps/pkbio/pkbio.html
I've even dabbled with JavaScript. If you have Netscape 2.0b4 or b5 you
could look at:
http://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/gaps/pkbio/Ch04/Ch0408a.html
I have plans and will add more material, better figures, more calculators,
cgi's, video clips, and crosswords puzzles in the future - soon I hope :-).
David Bourne, Ph.D., OU HSC College of Pharmacy, Oklahoma City, OK 73117
Voice: (405) 271-6481 FAX: (405) 271-3830
Internet: david-bourne.at.uokhsc.edu OR david.at.pharm.cpb.ouhsc.edu
OUHSC College of Pharmacy WWW server: http://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/
VL Pharmacy Page http://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/pharmacy/pharmint.html
LISTSERVs PharmMM.at.pharm.cpb.ouhsc.edu (Pharmacy Teaching)
PharmPK.at.uokhsc.edu (PK/PD Issues)
PharmPC.at.pharm.cpb.ouhsc.edu (P'ceutic/Analysis Issues)
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[Modified a little by David Bourne - see below]
Here is a grand experiment. I am sending two self extracting archives,
Antiepil.pdf.sea will unstuff as an Adobe Acrobat pdf document [URL
ftp://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/anonymous/mm/AntiEpil.sit.hqx]. You can
read it by using the Acrobat 2.1 reader (for the Mac) or the latest
version of the Windows Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you double click on the
unstuffed icon, it should open to a document that looks just like my
computer presentation I use for antiepileptics in Pharmacology. The
simply clicking on the screen will move you from one screen to the next.
The other archive contains two files: a quicktime movie (altered to play
on any platform) and an animation done in Director. Put these files into
a folder with the antiepileptic document. As you move through the
antiepileptic document it is annotate to tell how I use specific portions
of graphics, movies and animations. The one screen with the toddler
hooked to an eeg is from an old 16mm film but one you click on it it
should "play". It shows the eeg in one screen and the toddler exhibiting
seizures in the other [URL
ftp://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/anonymous/mm/msNew8Mov.sit.hqx]. There is also an
example of a "sodium channel"
animation that when the button is clicked, should open the animation
file [ftp://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/anonymous/mm/SodChanMov.sit.hqx]. I'm not
sure if this will play on a Windows machine.
This is a long answer to a short question about how we use multimedia. I
thought I would take a chance and see if this stuff makes it over the
network. David, I hope this doesn't crash you server!!! [db - not yet :-)]
I would like some feedback as to whether this works or not. Thanks
Bill Riffee
William H. Riffee, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
James O. Burke Centennial Fellow
College of Pharmacy
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
riffee.at.mail.utexas.edu
(512) 471-4194 (office)
[db - These didn't quite make it through the system the first time but
did e-mail OK the second time when sent directly to my e-mailbox. I have
placed these files on the WWW/ftp server indexed at
http://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/mm/soft.html. A couple of them are rather large.
Bill or I could e-mail them directly to you if you have a problem with the
ftp transfer. The largest file took me about 1 minutes at 100K/sec :-) -
modem transfer at 14.4 baud would probably be at best 100 times slower.]
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