Some of our student e-curators have now started work on the OVAM project. They are tasked with speaking to academics at their schools and compiling a list of resources which could be used as part of the museum. Once an inventory of all the resources available has been completed some of the curators will then be going on to put these together into a presentation type project. This provides a good way of improving the usability of resources by combining them with other complimentary items on the same topic, essentially creating a more complete learning resource, which students can then use to revise and learn about the area which it covers.
So far some of the projects which are being undertaken include:
- A series of narrated presentations on the organisation of the somatic and autonomic nervous systems including written information, dissection images, histology photos and animated images.
- Translation of the interactive anatomy programs from the University of Murcia on the anatomy of the bird and the pig .
- An anatomical
guide to the skeletal structure of the equine forelimb in the form of a presentation with extensively labeled photos identifying skeletal
landmarks, additional information relating structure to function and self-assessment components.
- Labeling and addition of self-assessment to presentations detailing whole horse and ox dissections.
