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Housing | • ABOUT SLICE OF LIFE • View, print and
distribute the Slice of Life 2003 meeting announcement to friends and
faculty...choose the
Adobe
PDF version or the Microsoft Word version. If you are interested in computers
and multimedia in medical and healthcare education then SLICE OF LIFE
is your ideal international medical multimedia event! Please view
the complete conference program here.
Hosted this
year by Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania the program
has
two major parts: BRIEF AUDITORIUM PRESENTATIONS - THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS: Featuring invited speakers and selected presentations, where you can benefit from the view points of experienced specialists in a cooperative atmosphere. WORKSHOPS: Hands-on and lecture/demo pre-workshop tutorials, where you can learn new multimedia techniques from an international group of experts. SHOW AND TELL DEMONSTRATIONS and ELECTRONIC POSTERS: Meet the creators of innovative software solutions. BREAKOUT SESSIONS: These noon discussions with lunch permit continued discussion of controversial or breaking new topics. Morning speakers often continue to answer questions and debate issues. SOCIAL EVENTS:
Great
company, continental breakfast, lots of coffee, lunches with colleagues
and hospitality with delicious food and drink are daily events. Our
traditional Welcome
Dinner on Thursday evening
as well as the Grand
Extravaganza until
late Saturday night. The Slice of Life Workshop launched at the Eccles Library at
the University of Utah in 1988, and has traveled annually to locations around the world.
From 1998-2001, the Slice of Life Workshop combined with the Computers in Healthcare
Education Symposium (CHES) at Thomas Jefferson University. Click here to view complete information from
years past (CHES) and to get a feel for the flavor and scope of the meeting.
Click
here for earlier history of the Slice of Life Project and early meetings (preweb!)
WHAT IS THE " SLICE OF LIFE" WORKSHOP?The group began as contributors and users of the "Slice of Life" videodisc!! (For more history and information see the Slice of Life videodisc web site.) We like the name, and we occasionally use the resource to grab images! For more than thirteen years, developers of medical multimedia and interested new-comers have gathered together internationally at the Slice of Life Workshop to share ideas and:
WHO ARE THE KNOWLEDGE WEAVERS?The Knowledge Weavers team includes information management specialists, Web programmers and designers, and multimedia production artists. Their goal is to provide health sciences educators with high quality, Web-based multimedia resources that can be used for a variety of educational purposes. With a grant from NLM, many projects have been undertaken for educational use by anyone. Sharon Dennis at the University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library has for the past several years continued the tradition of producing some of the pre-conference workshops. Learn more about them at the Knowledge Weavers website. WHY IS GOLD STANDARD MULTIMEDIA HOSTING THE WEBSITE AND HANDLING THE REGISTRATION?In 1997, Suzanne Stensaas 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 Gold Standard collaboration was so successful that we decided to let the "pros" continue to mount the web site and handle the registration, credit cards, accounting and many of the logistics. We feel very fortunate to have collaborators who, incidentally, also happen to be vendors of multimedia medical education products! 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.
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