O x T A L E N T 2006 Winners

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1. Formative assessment

• Winner
  Medical Science IT team - Formative Assessment in the Medical Sciences Division
  Medical Sciences uses the WebLearn VLE to structure learning activities for pre-clinical students; formative assessments are included in teaching materials in a variety of ways.

• Runner-up
  Msc Integrated Immunology

2. Teaching and Learning

• Winner
  Diabetes Stories, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
  This website presents audio recordings of the life-stories of 50 people diagnosed with diabetes between 1927 and 1997. They talk with passion and humour about their daily lives and provide a unique oral history of what it was like to have diabetes during the twentieth century.
  http://www.diabetes-stories.co.uk
  
• Runners-up
  TeaLeaves: Traces from Physiological Concepts
  Piers Nye
  TeaLeaves displays experimental traces recorded from human subjects exercising on a bicycle. It encourages students to look creatively at respiratory and cardiovascular traces obtained from human subjects and to ask, and answer, questions about the relationships between the behaviour of the lungs and heart.
  
• Web-based learning resource on the poem 'Cahier d'un retour au pays natal' by Aimé Césaire
  Louise Hardwick
  Online learning resource for First Year French students on the set text 'Cahier d'un retour au pays natal' featuring glossed passages for commentary practice, background information on Caribbean history and Negritude and images.
  

3. Student Projects

• Winner
  Critical Trauma Management
  Jessica Mather-Hillon
  This Website complements two student-led sessions looking at the management of a trauma patient. The first demonstrates management of a trauma victim; in the second students manage trauma cases themselves.
  http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/medsci/undergrad/medicine/year5/stud_yr5/hillon/
  
• Runner-up
  Pheromones Uncovered: Scientific Film-making module
  2nd-Year Engineering students

4. Administration, support services or research

• Winner
  The Workhouse
  Peter Higginbotham
  This Website is a comprehensive resource about the history of the workhouse in the British Isles. It currently contains over 2000 web pages, 4000 photos and illustrations, and transcriptions of important documents e.g. the 1834 Poor Law Act. It has become widely used by schools and colleges, and local and family historians.
  http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse
  
• Runner-up
  Bodleian Law Library Website
  http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/law
  

5. Special award for best Teaching and Learning project created
with assistance

• Winner
  The Basics of Climate Prediction
  This CD-ROM explains the science behind climate change prediction, looking at what affects climate, why it's so complicated and climate predications. It was designed as an educational tool and has been distributed to schools.
  http://www.begbroke.ox.ac.uk
  
• Runner-up
  MedLearn: Simple Interactive Content Authoring
  Philip Rees & Medical Science IT team
  
  MedLearn gives academic staff the freedom to create interactive on-line learning materials without the burden of working with complex authoring systems or relying on dedicated learning technologists to process the materials on their behalf. With minimal training they are able to mix richly formatted text, library images and formative questions in well structured web pages.
  http://users.ox.ac.uk/~temp0044/medlearn/medLearn.htm

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