Topic:Health informatics
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Welcome to the Wikiversity Department of Health Informatics.
There are many areas within Health Informatics. This general topic will be updated at a later time.
Within the topic of educational informatics in relation to medical education, we will be making available through Wikiversity a library of very short educational videos called PocketSnips. Apologies for this seeming like a plug for our project - please free to adapt this section to more general needs.
In the meantime, this is a simple connection to the Multimedia area and the PocketSnips topic.
[edit] Multimedia in Education
Multimedia can be phenomenally useful in medical education but it is important to avoid just using multimedia for the sake of it. There is the risk of emulating early PowerPoint presentations which had way too many flashing, moving, distracting graphic elements, just because you could. Keep to the message.
The same applies to the use of Multimedia - use it to convey some particular point or concept - not just to look cool.
One particular project that illustrates this concept is the PocketSnips micro-videos project. You can read more about this at the project web site: [1]
This page/category will link to the PocketSnips site but also the ancillary material related to the context, use and development of PocketSnips videos will be brought here to Wikiversity. PocketSnips videos are designed to be short, shareable, succinct, selective and simple.
