Students get bored with the same pattern of learning. Students are tech savvy these days, and prefer methods that involve electronic gadgets. Some of them like decision making tools. With these points in mind, I used Microsoft Powerpoint to make an interactive presentation on cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). When one plays it in a Powerpoint Viewer, it keeps offering different options. One has to select that option on each screen that applies to his/her own patient. Then the tool offers another screen with more options. Finally one reaches a recommendation for that patient. I used to do it in Visual Basic. But Powerpoint is easier to work in, does not involve compilation, and creating a setup file, and does not require the user to setup the file on his/her computer. Most people have Powerpoint or equivalent program installed on their computers. So additional software is not required. The starting screen of the tool looks like this.
I showed it to my students today when I taught them CIN. I promised to make it available to them, so that they could use it. It will help them learn the topic. It might inspire some of them to do better than that piece of software. You can click on the image above to download it.
I showed it to my students today when I taught them CIN. I promised to make it available to them, so that they could use it. It will help them learn the topic. It might inspire some of them to do better than that piece of software. You can click on the image above to download it.
