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Anatomical Doodles

Reviewed:
Dec 31, 2022 by Biology
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 4.8 stars
Content Quality: 4.8 stars
Effectiveness: 4.8 stars
Ease of Use: 5.0 stars
Overview:

This website provides users with anatomical sketches and animations, and they are encouraged to download and use them for personal or educational use.  The drawings provide blank a blank canvas for use.  The animations show several embryological processes that are often difficult to visualize in their entirety as well as joint movements. Although limited in the number of images, the collection at present provides an exceptional resource for anatomical images.  

Type of Material:

Collection, animation

Recommended Uses:
  • In-class homework or outside homework
  • Individual or group lab work
  • Animations could be used during a lecture
Technical Requirements:

Accessible with any browser

Identify Major Learning Goals:
  • Review anatomical structures
  • Practice identifying anatomical structures
  • Practice labeling neurological pathways
  • Understand embryological development
Target Student Population:

High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional

Biology, anatomy, or health courses

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
  • Some familiarity with anatomy
  • No specific technical skills required 

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:
  • The interactivity keeps users interested in the material
  • Images are appropriately categorized
  • The content is well organized for the human systems addressed
  • Quality of graphics is very good
  • Images can be used and manipulated for digital instructions
  • Animations are straightforward
  • The embryological animations provided a helpful depiction of the development of the heart and neurulation.  
Concerns:

There were very limited labels in the drawings or references to the source of the drawing

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:
  • Images and animations can be adopted for online instructions
  • The images will help students visualize the abstract information
  • The animations are easy to follow
  • This is a quick resource for last minute needs of diagrams and animations for Bio and A&P classes and exams
  • Some interactivity makes learning interesting
  • The unlabeled diagrams can be labeled depending upon individual needs
Concerns:
  • Due to the limited nature of the drawings, this website may not be useful in all situations where an instructor requires a simplified drawing.
  • Structures do not contain orientation.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:
  • These are beautiful stand-alone illustrations that students with a basic understanding of anatomy should be able to use.  
  • Does not need any downloads or plug-ins
Concerns:

I'm not sure if it is my browser or the site, but I did have glitches in some of the animations.  Going back a second time, the animations would not move for me and became static.  Students may need more guidance beyond the site for labeling help.

Other Issues and Comments:

Can be copied into another file and labeled for exams and labs, with proper attribution 

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