Thursday, September 20, 2007

David Bolinsky: A Fantastic Voyage Inside The Cell, is who I did my TED Talk on. He is a medical animator who has this company XVIVO. They teach Harvard medical students by producing these advanced images and videos to help them see and understand what goes on inside the human body.

His goal of these images is to help people understand the truth and beauty of our bodies through biologic animation. This allows us to see 3-D anatomically correct images in motion. We are seeing real life actions of what really goes on inside our body.

This is an extremely advanced teaching tool. This opens up so many opportunities for inspiring creativity and sparking imagination. I feel this tool should open up to more than just the medical community. I think high school biology classes would benefit from these images and also smaller colleges and universities, that might not have the most advanced technology in there schools. With these videos and images there is no need for high tech technology. Yet it is the most advance images out there.

This will allow students to interact and have fun while understand and learning the intricate inner working's of the human body.

With this advancement I also feel that in the future we will be able to look at these images and use them to help have more control over our health. The more we learn from these images the better educated we will be. That will lead to the advancement in the research and actual care of our health.

Here is one of the images I got from his online portfolio



http://www.medillsb.com/ArtistPortfolioThumbs.aspx?AID=253

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think it is definitely the perfect tool for anyone who is in the medical field. It would have been beneficial for me to see this the semester I took Bio. It helped me grasp the concept much better. I thought the video was beautiful.

We usually learn about the cell by text, lectures and pictures. Sometimes you may get lucky enough to see some slides. But, it's never in this type of three dimensional teaching. It gives the activities in the cell purpose.