Bones of the Skull

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Now available: Free Anatomy Software

The Bones of the Skull: A 3-D Learning Tool received the 1999 Sandoz/Slice of Life Student Software Development Award. The program was developed to help students learn the features and bones of the human skull and has two essential features:

1) A collection of QuickTime VR (virtual reality) object movies of the skull and its individual bones. Students are able to rotate the bones and view them from multiple perspectives. At any point, the user can click to view labeled close-ups.

2) An interactive textbook containing high-quality 2-D images, descriptive text, and many interactive activities to encourage mastery of the content.

IT'S FREE!

This product is available for free on CD-ROM or via download for use by educators, educational institutions, and other nonprofit organizations. Duplication for internal use by educators and their institutions is permissible, as long as we are notified of your intentions to do so, and how many copies are intended.

To read more about the product or request your copy, visit us at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/commons/skullvr/