From personalisation and dementia care, to children’s safeguarding and young care leavers, it has been designed as a learning and development tool. You can view, download or e-mail films, and check out the key resources related to the subject. It launches with 25 films and two new films will be released every month….

Wii fit Plus will now allow you to check and monitor four key areas of your physique, BMI (body mass index), centre of gravity, and calories burnt during your workout, allowing you to set your goals

There are five training categories (including the brand new Training Plus), which help you to develop body balance, burn fat, tone and condition muscle, as well as increasing stamina. On Wii Fit Plus you can customise your own training routines, or ask your Wii Fit trainer to do it for you based on the area of your body you’d like to work on.

SenseCam Website

New study proves that Microsoft’s sensory innovation aids memory recall

A reason to forgive Microsoft for the appallingly crass and unfunny windows 7 adverts currently interrupting my televisual viewing………

Source : Kip Jones

At the conclusion of the Virtual Europe project, this paper offers a unique viewpoint on the benefits and limitations surrounding the development and pilot of a European health based simulated community. It discusses how the project has not successfully achieved its targeted objectives and reflects on the barriers which stopped the project from being successfully utilised within European health education curriculums. It contrasts the lessons learned from work on the Wessex Bay virtual community (Scammell et al. 2008) with its international counterpart and offers some suggestions on the practicalities of working on future interprofessional, intercultural e-learning projects.

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The package is a high quality, interactive, web-based ‘reusable learning object’, aimed at final year student midwives. Using video narratives of women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding selected from Healthtalkonline, together with other published evidence, students are provided with an enhanced insight about what kind of support is effective, empowering and valued, and what support is regarded as unhelpful, detrimental and disempowering. They are then encouraged to critically evaluate and challenge current practices that influence the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, as well as reflect on their own practice and attitudes to breastfeeding.

An edited version of the package should be appearing on the Healthtalkonline site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section. Once this is up and running I’ll post a link to it from here.

RCM Midwifery Awards

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Article doi: 10.1111/j.1752-9824.2009.01027.x

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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

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SimpleMind is a great free easy to use application which you can then upload to iPhoto – shame it wasn’t really big enough to hand around at the conference round table so I resorted to a paper version.

HHL09 Presentation Mindmap

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