Ironically, creating ‘Eyeballs made Easy’ is not that ‘easy’ – there are several moving parts, including (1) video recordings, (2) face-to-face teaching, (3) the ‘Red Eye Room’ discussion forum, (4) a Virtual Reality ophthalmology experience, and (5) research and evaluation.  We are also aspiring to add more components (such as a 360 degree camera experience) down the track, but one step at a time.

Thankfully our progress remains steady. In the last week, we have finalized the first clinical case, to be posted onto the new ‘Red Eye Room’ discussion forum.  With help from Prof David Mackey, we have chosen a topic for our first video presentation (‘how to remove a foreign body from the eye’), and have created a storyboard for this proposed recording.

We also had follow up regarding the Virtual Reality ophthalmology experience – the next step is to identify and (hopefully) acquire a 3D (digital software) model of the eye similar to the image below.  This may happen as part of a new ‘Health and Sciences VR Working Group’, set up by Michael Ovens.

We have also edited the first of our existing face-to-face lectures, with a view to recording these as short videos down the track.

Our next main step will be to create a tender for (1) video recording and production, and (2) graphic design and software, in order to start filming our first video.

Thanks to everyone from UWA (Prof Mackey, Rav, Irene, Erandi) and CEF (Sev and Michael) for their help in the last week.  Until next time …

Hess, Sanjay & the EME Team.

THE EME TEAM

Hessom Razavi

Sanjay Rama