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Slice of Life Workshop and Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium will return to the University of Utah in 2000. The Slice of Life workshop that started out at the Eccles Library at the University of Utah in 1988 and has continued on an annual basis will return to Utah after traveling to Vancouver, Copenhagen, Chicago, Tampa, and Philadelphia. The event has two major parts. An optional 2 days of Hands-on Pre-Workshops on June 27 and 28, 2000 and two and one half days of auditorium presentations, demonstrations, breakout sessions and special interest groups on June 29-July 1. Special events will include dinner and an evening at the Red Butte Arboretum and a special Saturday afternoon and evening trip following the conclusion of the workshop. A journey up one of the canyons, exercise, good food and entertainment will be combined in one multimedia extravaganza in either Heber Valley or American Fork Canyon. The production of this year's workshop is a collaboration between the University of Utah (home of Slice of Life and the Knowledge Weavers), Thomas Jefferson University, Gold Standard Multimedia, and Kued Media Solutions. . You will not want to miss it! Visit this website often for more details as they evolve, BUT MARK THE DATES on your calendar. Reserve your accomodations now.
WHAT IS THE " SLICE OF LIFE" WORKSHOPThe group began as users of the "Slice of Life" Videodisc. (for more information see the Slice of Life Web site) We like the name, we still use the resource to grab images! For the past ten years developers of medical multimedia (and interested new-comers) get together to share ideas:
2. Demo new multimedia teaching programs they've made/bought/sell. 3. Share innovations for the WWW, distance ed, and asynchronous learning. 4. Attend demonstrations or hands-on "Pre-Conference" Workshops. 5. Acknowledge and encourage student participation with the award of a $1000.00 cash prize for the most outstanding student project. 6. Demonstrate the tools, programs and projects they have been working on. 7. Discuss strategies for getting new technologies incorporated into the curriculum. 8. Share software and ideas, problems and solutions. 9. Share evaluation data. 10. Meet others with similar interests with whom they can network throughout the year. WHAT IS THE COMPUTERS IN HEALTHCARE EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM?For ten years Thomas Jefferson University hosted a spring symposium sponsored by the Health Sciences Library Consortium and Commercial Vendors such as Apple and IBM. The last symposium at TJU was in April, 1997. Beginning with June, 1998 TJU and the organizers of the Slice of Life Workshop decided to combine the meetings. The programs from past meetings (see below) provide a glimpse of the types of activities and presentations that occur at the conference. This is one of the few places where developers and evaluators of computer assisted learning in healthcare gather to network and share ideas. The workshop is deliberately limited.
Past Meetings
Slice of Life / CHES 1998 - Tampa
Computers in Heathcare Education Symposiums 1994 - 1997
WHO ARE THE KNOWLEDGE WEAVERS?Sharon Dennis at the University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library has for the past 3 years continued the tradition of sharing initiated with the Slice of Life Project. With a grant from NLM many projects have been undertaken for educational use by anyone. They have been involved for the past two years in producing some of the pre-conference workshops. Learn more about them at the Knowledge Weavers website. WHY IS GOLD STANDARD MULTIMEDIA HOSTING THE WEB SITE AND HANDLING THE REGISTRATION?In 1997 Suzanne Stensass was about to say "no more Slices of Life". It took too much time and energy. Marianne Messer and others from Gold Standard Multimedia were at the 1997 Chicago meeting and found it so exciting that they said, "we could help you do this in Tampa in 1998". The 1998 Slice of Life / CHES collaboration was so successful that now that they know how to do it we decided to let the "pros" continue to mount the web site and handle the registration and many of the logistics. We feel very fortunate to have collaborators who, incidentally also happen to be software vendors! This meeting is not designed to push their products, but they will be more than happy to show them to you and explain their value.
Website Content: Suzanne Stensaas and Marianne Messer
PEOPLE TO CONTACTSlice of Life Conference:
Eccles Health Sciences Library University of Utah 10 North 1900 East Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0589 (801) 585-1281 Email suzanne.stensaas@hsc.utah.edu
Gold Standard Multimedia, Inc. 320 W. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 400 Tampa, FL 33606 Phone (813) 258-4747 FAX (813) 259-1585 Email smith.l@gsm.com
Director of Academic Computing Thomas Jefferson University Academic Infor. Serv. & Research 1020 Walnut St., 114 Scott Bldg Philadelphia, PA 19107-5587 215-503-4992; fax:215-923-5294 Email rodney.b.murray@mail.tju.edu
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