Review for:The Virtual Body

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posted: on June 7, 2008 at 7:35AM

My rating of this resource: ***

My experience using this resource:
General biology

Topic I was teaching:
Circulatory system

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
To have students understand the anatomy of the heart and how blood flows through the heart.

Course Level:
Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:
Students had access to this site as a resource. I used part I- anatomy of the heart in my lecture. I used the heart beat animation as a demonstration.

Value Added:
Provides visualization or animation, Provides additional content

Strengths:
Very easy to get onto,virtually no loading time. Can move from one of the animations to the other very quickly. I like the parts of the heart because you do not see the label until the cursor is over the section. It can be used as a tutorial in that respect. The part on the blood flow is nice because you can change the pace of the flow.

Weaknesses:
It is not very large on the screen so it can be hard to see, might be better used with individual computers. As a learning tool it should be supplimented with other work.

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