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Don’t miss Helen Osborne’s health literacy workshop. Helen’s award-winning book, Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message is considered by many as the most important health literacy reference today.
The Deep Structure of the Web Page:Structural markup for search optimization, accessibility, and design flexibility Director of Special Technology Projects Information Technology Services (ITS), Yale University Author: Web Style Guide
Most organizations are adopting "web standards" sites that take advantage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XHTML, and careful semantic markup of content. This workshop will look in detail at how consistent architecture in the design of the underlying XHTML and CSS can produce sites and enterprise-wide template systems that are more search-visible, user friendly, and universally accessible. The workshop will look at Yale’s experience over the last two years implementing new University web design and web interface guidelines, standardized page templates, and the Google Search Appliance to improve information access and usability of the core Yale University web presence.
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Health Literacy: Using metaphors and stories to communicate your health messageAuthor: Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message Founder: Health Literacy Month
Patients, families, and the general public need to be able to read and understand health information before they can act on it. This is called "health literacy." But research shows that many people struggle with health literacy. In this workshop, Helen Osborne will:
This workshop will give participants the knowledge and skills needed to start making a health literacy difference.
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Experimenting to learn. Learning to experiment.Staff of the Eli Whitney Museum
Visit the Eli Whitney Museum where you will take part in a creativity experiment on the site where Whitney invented the American way of inventing. Whitney’s workshop was a laboratory. His workers learned to invent change. Their legacy is the practical genius that is called Yankee ingenuity. The Museum is an experimental learning workshop. It collects and exhibits, not objects, but the ways in which objects are created and the ways through which objects educate.
Using one of the museum’s projects, the Pythagoras Switch, we will have the opportunity to participate in a creativity exercise. The Pythagoras Switch is a variation on a Rube Goldberg Machine influenced by brilliant constructions on a Japanese children’s television program. Discover that you can construct a unique 5 part relay of tracks and marbles connected by straws, toothpicks, playing cards, dominoes…and your imagination. A reminder that creativity begins in play. Your interchangeable parts (a Whitney staple) will return to their box and travel nicely to your inventive apprentices at home.
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Tour of Yale University and the Anlyan Center Anatomy Lab
Take a guided tour of Yale University where you will hear about Yale’s rich 300-year history and aspects of student life at several of Yale’s twelve residential colleges. View buildings in styles ranging from New England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Moorish Revival to contemporary. The tour includes the Gothic Sterling Memorial Library, Yale’s largest, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Constructed with more than one hundred panels of translucent marble, the Beinecke is home to one of the world’s preeminent collections of rare materials, including the Gutenberg Bible.
The tour continues to Yale School of Medicine’s new state-of-the-art anatomy lab, located in the Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education. The lab is used to teach medical students to think in three dimensions, making expanded use of computers and the Internet. In addition to traditional dissection, students can access the Visible Human Dissector, a simulator based on the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project and developed by researchers at the University of Colorado. This software allows students to view thousands of three-dimensional images of the human body in which each anatomical feature is color-coded and can be isolated, rotated, eliminated or viewed in cross section. The anatomy lab provides the backdrop for a unique, thoughtfully constructed curriculum course that uses dissection, radiology, and computer activities to solve problems about spatial relationships, structure-function relationships, and the anatomical underpinnings of clinical diagnosis and pathogenesis. The course is fully integrated with an introductory course in radiology; a linkage that is unparalleled in other medical schools and enthusiastically praised by graduates.
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Patrick Lynch
Patrick J. Lynch is the Director of Special Technology Projects in the Office of the ITS Director at Yale University’s Information Technology Services. In his 35 years with Yale University he has been a medical illustrator, biomedical and scientific photographer, audiovisual producer, and for the past 20 years a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and web sites. Pat has won over 30 national and international awards for his work, including the 2005 Pirelli INTERNETional Awards for Best Overall multimedia teaching site, and best site from higher education, the 1992 Best-in-Show Award from the Health Sciences Communications Association and a Gold Medal, Silver Medal and Award of Excellence in the international INVISION Multimedia Awards. Lynch has authored over 100 professional papers, magazine articles, and book chapters, and published three books—A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife, Web Style Guide, and Manual of Ornithology—with Yale University Press. He has been a consultant and invited speaker on web design and web communications issues to many universities, government agencies, corporations, and non-profits groups, and regularly does talks, workshops, and professional papers in biocommuications, academic computing, medical illustration, biomedical visualization, and web publication. His personal Web site is at patricklynch.net
Helen Osborne M.Ed.
Recognized as an expert in health literacy, Helen Osborne M.Ed., OTR/L helps health professionals communicate in ways patients and their families can understand. She is president of her own business, Health Literacy Consulting, based in Natick, Massachusetts. Helen is also the founding director of Health Literacy Month – a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about the importance of understandable health information. Helen speaks, consults, and writes about health literacy. She is in her ninth year as a columnist for Boston Globe Media’s On Call magazine, writing about patient education and healthcare communication. She is also the author of several books, including the award-winning Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message published by Jones & Bartlett. Her newest publication is the Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates. To learn more about Helen’s work, please visit the Health Literacy Consulting website at www.healthliteracy.com. |