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What is Slice of Life?

An annual conference at which medical and health science educators and developers gather from around the world to explore and share the uses of multimedia and information technology in medical education. The focus is on cutting edge developments, implementation of courseware, eLearning, web enhanced curricula, wireless mobile computing, graphic design, animation and digital video. Curricular integration, sharing and evaluation are central themes. Think of the many ways you can contribute and learn! View the complete conference program!

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Hosted at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University Medical Center the program has two major parts:

(1) Optional hands-on and/or lecture/demonstration pre-workshop tutorials for a half or full day on June 28-30, 2004.

(2) Two and one-half days of auditorium presentations, electronic demonstrations and posters, breakout sessions and special interest groups on July 1-3, 2004.

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?
WHO ARE THE KNOWLEDGE WEAVERS?
WHY IS GOLD STANDARD MULTIMEDIA HOSTING THE WEB SITE AND HANDLING THE REGISTRATION?
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
LOCAL HOST COMMITTEE

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:

Hear and see new technology for medical/health applications.
Demo new multimedia teaching programs they've made/bought/sell.
Share innovations for the world wide web, distance education and asynchronous learning.
Attend demonstrations or hands-on "Pre-Conference" Workshops.
Acknowledge and encourage student participation with the award of a $1,000 cash prize for the most outstanding student project.
Demonstrate the tools, programs and projects they have been working on.
Discuss strategies for getting new technologies incorporated into the curriculum.
Share software and ideas, problems and solutions.
Share evaluation data.
Meet others with similar interests with whom they can network throughout the year.

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 design 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.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Suzanne Stensaas, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Paul Burrows, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Eric Carlson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Leah Smith, Gold Standard Multimedia, Tampa, FL

Amanda Smith, Gold Standard Multimedia, Tampa, FL