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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-HCOM and CORE personnel and students.

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NEWS

Kopchick receives international award

            John Kopchick, Ph.D., Goll Professor of Microbiology, received international recognition earlier this year from the British Society of Endocrinology, who awarded him the Transatlantic Medal. The medal is given annually to a North American who has made significant contributions to the discipline that focuses on hormones. To read about Kopchick’s award, go to http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/Kopchick11/index.htm. 

New interactive anatomy website launched

            Lawrence Witmer, Ph.D., Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology and professor of anatomy, has published a new website that presents PDFs and videos showing 3D visualizations of human anatomical structures. With the click of a mouse, users can spin each structure around in any direction, zoom in and out, turn on or off individual bones or soft tissues, or even make certain features transparent.

            Witmer says the site can be useful not only to medical students, but to high school biology and undergraduate college anatomy students as well. Read about this new interactive web resource at http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/WitmerAnatomy/index.htm.

            To view the website, go to

http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/3D_human.htm.

It's time for a new phone list -- please ensure that your office address and phone number are au courant

            Faculty and staff members, we need your help to make sure the new college phone list has your correct office address and phone number. The Office of Communication will publish a new list within the next few weeks. Your contact information will be generated using the university’s Oracle Identification Management System. The information will be generated from Oracle on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.

• Please log in to Oracle TODAY to check that your information is accurate: http://www.ohio.edu/ebiz/myhr.html.

• Choose "My Personal Information (use your OAK ID and Password)"
• To update your office telephone numbers, go to “Personal Information.” 
• To update your office location, go to “Other Misc. Information.”

            Thank you for your help in making our college directory -- and the mail delivery efforts — up-to-date and accurate. Au courant, even.  

            For questions, please contact Sheila Bycofski at 593-2346 or Miriam Thomas at 593-2544.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Students: Explore osteopathic history; compete for $10,000 in prizes

            The AOA Bureau of Osteopathic History and Identity has announced its annual essay competition to encourage medical students, interns and residents to study their profession’s past struggles and achievements.

Essays, which should focus on the AOA’s “Core Principles for Teaching the History of Osteopathic Medicine,” are due by Oct. 3. The winning essayist will receive $5,000, with $3,000 going to second place and $2,000 to third place. Visit www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=66991 for details.

Faculty changes, additions

·                     Effective Thursday, Sept. 1, Allen Reed was named interim director of medical informatics until further notice. Also, effective as Sept. 1, please welcome Matthew Conaway, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Brian Clark, Ph.D., associate professor of neuromuscular biology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. You can reach Dr. Conaway by contacting Jamie Remy or via email at conawam1@ohio.edu  He will not have an office location on campus.

·                     Effective Tuesday, Sept. 6, please welcome Nigel Daniels, Ph.D., lab technician for Aili Guo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of endocrinology in the Department of Specialty Medicine. Daniels can be reached in the Academic and Research Center (ARC). An office location and phone number will be announced at a later date.

·                     Effective Monday, Sept. 12, please welcome Sudesh Bhagat, biomedical support engineer in the Office of Medical Informatics. Bhagat can be reached at Grosvenor 138 or 593-2169.

Win a bicycle and help SHARE Kenya

            SHARE Kenya is raffling off an Ohio University bicycle to raise funds for supplies for the program’s annual trip to Africa. Contact Donna Webb at webbd@ohio.edu or 593-2215, or Joanne Bray at bray@ohio.edu or 593-2513 for tickets. A picture of the bicycle being raffled can be viewed at http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/international/BobCatBike.htm.

CALENDAR

State of the College

          Please join Dean Jack Brose, D.O., at his annual State of the College Address. The 2011 Standard of Excellence Awards will also be presented, followed by light refreshments on The Bricks.

• Event: Wednesday, Sept. 14, 3 p.m., Irvine 194

 Research Day

• Event: Friday, Sept. 23, 11 a.m., ARC atrium/living room

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit: Talking Drawings

Purpose: To activate and evaluate student knowledge of a topic.

Description:  In this activity, students will activate prior knowledge by creating a graphic representation of a topic before the lesson.  After engaging in learning about that topic, students will re-evaluate their prior knowledge by drawing a second depiction of their topic.  They will then summarize what the different drawing say to them about what they learned.

Procedure:

1.     Ask students to close their eyes and think about topic X.  Using the Talking Drawings worksheet, have students draw a picture what they saw while they were thinking about topic X.

2.     Teach cognitive portion of your lesson.

3.     At the end of the lesson, ask students to elaborate upon their initial drawing by creating a new drawing that incorporates what they learned about topic X during the lesson.

4.     Have students share their before and after drawings with a partner.  Students should discuss the differences between the two depictions of topic X.

5.     Finally, have students respond in writing at the bottom of their Talking Drawings worksheet.  What do the two drawings tell them about what they learned during the lesson?

 

Wood, K. (2001).  Literacy strategies across the subject areas. Needham Heights, MA:   Allyn & Bacon.
Sample Talking Drawings 

Source: http://sites.google.com/site/stokestechnology/Home/instructional-strategies-for-engaging-learners/activating-strategies/talking-drawings

NOTE FROM STEVE:  Scientist John Medina states in his recent book, “Brain Rules,” that (Rule #10) “Vision trumps all other senses…We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you'll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you'll remember 65%.”   Check your next presentation for appropriate visual representations, label appropriately and remember, a picture is worth a thousand words so this can really help you uncover your material for students!  Source: www.brainrules.net.   

Find more tips at your OU-HCOM and CORE faculty development web resources pages:  www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm or www.ohiocore.org/cf/index.htm. If you have a great strategy, please send it to me, and I’ll include it in a future Faculty Development Tidbit. Tidbits courtesy of your Office of Faculty Development with Steve Davis, Ph.D.; Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D.; and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.

Please send your news and announcements by Wednesday at 3 p.m. for consideration in the following ROUNDS. If you have questions, suggestions or corrections, contact Richard Heck, writer/editor, at 740.593.0896 or heckr@ohio.edu.