MedEd Portal is the AAMC's digital library of peer reviewed e-learning resources. These resources are free to use and made available to teachers under the Creative Commons Licence. To search and download the resources you will need to create an account.

This site had medical illustrations which you can download and use. The illustrations have been generated by Patrick J Lynch for multimedia teaching projects by the Yale University School of Medicine, Center for Advanced Instructional Media.

HEAL is a digital library of peer reviewed digital learning resources that can be downloaded and used/reproduced in local teaching resources. To download content you will need to register for a free account. Collections include anatomical illustrations from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

eXe is an open source content authoring tool which works on both PCs and Macs. It has been developed in New Zealand and is free to download. It's reasonably straight forward to use and there are some helpful screencasts on the site which give you an overview of how to use the tool.

An on-line tutorial developed by JISC and Intute on how to find copyright free images on the web for your work. The tutorial includes an overview of legal responsibilities in using images and provides an overview of different licensing models for digital images. It also gives details of some sites which individuals might want to take a look at.

A helpful YoutTube video giving an overview of bookmarking ont he web and how this can help you organise and annoate web content and then share it with others or keep it private.

An online tutorial developed by Intute and JISC giving an overview of how to use the web to search for medical resources. It highlights some of the key web sites for medicine including professional organisations, subject gateways, databases, electronic journals and learning and teaching materials.

An interactive Flash animation which gives a helpful overview of intellectual property rights. This was developed as part of the JISC funded Web2Rights project which aims to help academics and student better understand issues surrounding IPR.

This is the homepage for the Web2Rights project funded by JISC and developed to help academics and students gain abetter understanding of IPR issues and other legal issues in relation to Web 2.0. The site includes use-cases, a blog and discussion forum and links to an ip toolkit and ip diagnostic tool which will take you through a project you are working on help identify any IPR issues which you need to consider.

Interesting blog post from Cole Camplese of Penn State University which puts forward a model of the personal reflection process which includes the development of personal and academic goals, putting content into a private personal repository and then publishing elements of this into an e-portfolio.

Animoto is a tool which can be used to create slideshows to which you can add a voice over.

This page from the University Mary Washington gives an overview of 10 ways to use a blog. There are examples given under each heading which you can take a look at.

WebMic is an Internet interactive virtual microscope that resembles the use of a real microscope. It was developed by Dr Robert Ogilvie of the Medical University of South Carolina, USA.

Clinical Skills Online is a St George's Medical School, London, project that developed a series of clinical skills videos which can be used freely for educational pruposes and are made available under the creative commons licence.

Interesting post about the use of Twitter in education.

This is the home page to the Connectivism and Connective Online course which Stephen Downes ran from September - November 2008. You can sign up for an account which will allow you to look at the course resources and give you access to the discussions etc even thought the course has now ended.

An interactive resource that introduces all the essential elements of human tissue: after reading a short text, visitors working singly or together to identify the photographs. Students are asked to identify structures on the slides and can then click the answers to check if they are right. This resoucre was developed by Dr Edward Friedlander of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and is amde available under creative commons.

The Institute for Health Improvement site which includes free on-line courses. You just need to sign up for a free account to view these. "The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action."

Helpful site with screencast tutorials giving overviews of programmes such as Adobe Flash etc developed by Russell Stannard of the University of Westminister.