Came across this app after talking to the bartender at my local haunt. It’s called DIPTIC [click here for website]. The app allows one to put together 3 or more pictures to “tell a story”. The app costs $0.99
I am still chewing this over, but I think one educational application of this would be to create what I call “learning shots”. Learning shots are small snippets of learning that can be pulled up at a moments notice [like on the fly teaching in the ER].
You can create them yourself using PowerPoint . I have a bunch of 1 to 2 page PowerPoint presentations with bullet points explaining various concepts – like the one below on Salicylate toxicity:
Michelle Lin who writes Academic Life in EM – also has her Paucis Verbis cards which I use regularly. [Click here for a link to her blog]
Below I have included a “Diptic” that I created to conceptualise Meckel’s Diverticulum. Comments?
images from pediatricsurgerymd.org and wikipedia.
Nadim – this is absolutely brilliant. truthfully, this is the way I learn anything…. looking at something from various perspectives and definately in ‘snapshot’ form. True confessions from a board trained pediatrician is that…. shhhhhh (I never read “Nelson’s” – the pediatric bible)… couldnt’ do it. I just don’t learn that way… line after line of ‘information’ with no ‘hooks’. Rather – I found a ‘simpler’ versions of knowledge that provided contextual ‘hooks’ and then added information to the hooks. When I teach, I try to provide simple cases for ‘hooks’. I learn by having a framework – a few ‘hooks’ which I can than ‘add’ onto…. This app provides a framework for a topic that features two or three ‘angles’.. one can always ‘add’ onto this, but it ‘imprints’…. at least, this is how my brain works and I suspect (without being trained in adult learning techniques) that this would be very much in keeping. so 10/10 and two thumbs up N from my perspective!!!
HI Vicki – thanks! I do the same … building layers of learning, but starting off simply.