Review for:virtual knee replacement

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posted: on January 15, 2007 at 4:46PM

My rating of this resource: *****

My experience using this resource:
anatomy & physiology

Topic I was teaching:
joints

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
students will have a better understanding of the knee joint and bone structure in general.

Course Level:
Honors or Advanced

How I/my students used the resource:
As an activity to accompany material learned in the text and through class discussions. Sometimes we also use video of the actual surgery.

Value Added:
Provides visualization or animation, Provides a virtual lab, Provides additional content, Increases student engagement and motivation

Strengths:
very useful for the advanced or honors level, but could be useful for other students, too. Students are actively engaged throughout. They are drawn to it because of the graphics and the sounds.

Weaknesses:
None!

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