I came across Healthline Body Menu website a few months ago. An excellent resource for teaching human systems in Science. P. E. & Health teachers should also find it to be an invaluable resource.
Click on the link below to see how I have rotated an image of the eye. Essentially, with this site you are provided with a full male/female body image and you get to chose which part you want to 3D view.
See video.
Incidentally, this video was created by a free online screen capture program called Screen-O-Matic. With Screen-O-Matic, you sign up for a free account. When you record a screen collection use the option to save video to your local computer. A 5 minute per video limitation I think. For class use you may consider linking the video to a student/class website/blog. There are others screen capture program such as Jing. Jing is a free downloadable program that you download and install. They have a fee pro account as well. Jing has the upload to Screencast.com option built within the program. Nice!
Alternatively, if the video file is downloaded to your local computer, you can go to Screencast, sign up for a free account, and upload the video to their site. There are other sites that provide this option such as Vimeo. As per below, you can embedd the video link into your site.
Implications for teaching. Students can be assigned to a certain body system, or body part. Instead of writing a report, they could play a 3-D video at this website and use screen capturing software to video/audio record (Screen-O-Matic does provide audio recording capabilities), and share link to their teacher for evaluation as well as have it posted to a class\student website or blog. If you are using Moodle you can set up an assignment activity in Moodle and have students provide a written component as well as having to upload the link to you. If you use the assignment route, the teacher can evaluate and comment online and post a grade which can be viewed by students in the grades component of Moodle. Additionally, you could have class\student websites setup using Google Sites for example, or a Wiki, using Wikispaces and or the Wiki inside Moodle, whereby students could post their work.
This year 3 schools in our Western School District will be involved a technology integration project. As part of this initiative our school district will provide a 50% teaching unit for technology integration within each of these schools. We anticipate many new learning opportunities for our students and teachers as we go forward with this exciting district led iniatitive.
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