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Abstract

Photography has an important role to play in Forensic Science for both staff and students not just for crime scene investigations but also to support learning, teaching and assessment. In the 3^rd year module 'Techniques in Human Identification' we have increasingly used photography to support learning through the creation of learning objects, its use in class as part of assessment as students create portfolios of practical work and the addition of quality images rather than scans to teaching presentations, handouts and laboratory guides.

• Students can photograph bones, skeletons, parts of bones they want to help with bone identification, ageing, sexing and metric analysis using the cameras provided, their own cameras or mobile phones.
• Helps those students are not good at illustrating bones, so photographs can printed out and then labelled with reference to an anatomy text.
• Photographs taken can become part of a collection of images available in an online gallery or database. Since starting to teach this module we have taken photographs of students ears now we have a collection of over 140 pairs which can be used for more detailed analysis.
• Appreciation of human variation; photographs are taken from a range of anatomical material so variations can be clearly demonstrated. Many anatomy texts only show one rather than multiple examples.
• The creation of handouts and laboratory guides to techniques with photographs rather than diagrams, or just text, adds another level of sophistication as finished products.

Other recent lectures

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The role of photography in the learning teaching and assessment of human identification

Presentation at FORREST Conference Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, June 30th/July 1st 2009, see web page and poster for University Learning Teaching and Assessment conference.

Supporting deaf students

This work has developed out of my need to teach a number of deaf students in my modules for Web Design and Multimedia and Photography which led to me addressing issues of how to teach and support deaf students especially in the use of technology enhanced learning in the classroom.

Supporting deaf students web page, podcast for University of Derby's Response journal.

The Influence of Instructional Design Models on Learning.

Response Online Learning and Teaching Journal, July 2006. Link to Response journal, link to article pdf file.

ALT-C 2007

Photographic Composition Learning Object, ALT-C, University of Nottingham, Sept 4th – 6th, 2007.

The impact of e-learning material on e-students and a consideration of lecturers and delivering lectures via videoconferencing by Steve Mvalo

Web pages to paper.