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Third-year undergraduate nursing students and first-year master's entry clinical nursing students received an iPod Touch. The device provides students with mobile applications that give them information they'll need in the classroom and at the bedside, as well as an app to help them prepare for the nursing board examination.   The apps include:   Nursing Central Provides everything the nurse needs - nursing assessment, nursing diagnoses and nursing procedures. It includes the Davis Drug Guide, lab and diagnostic tests, a diseases and disorders reference, and Taber's Medical Dictionary. There is also a Medline Journal citation and study-abstract explorer.   Medical Spanish Translates English questions and phrases into Spanish to support Spanish-speaking patients. With Hispanics now constituting nearly half the population in Southern California, having the ability to communicate successfully with patients is critical to delivering the proper care. The app includes more than 3,000 phrases.   NCLEX Review This comprehensive review is what students study before taking the California Nursing Board Examination to become licensed as registered nurses.

sign language authoring tool that uses SigningAvatar® animated characters that sign. Easily create curriculum-specific, platform independent content with no animation experience needed! The characters sign your content and make it accessible to your students or anyone who could benefit from sign language.

Kaltura Video Platform Community Edition Full featured open source video platform running on your own servers or cloud.

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This site is a great resource to correctly cite any work from journals, Newspapers, books, and websites.

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Richard Buckland has been using Wikis in his large class (100-500 students) teaching in Engineering and Computer Science since 2000. He has found some amazing things which can be done with Wikis, and made many many mistakes.

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A trade group that represents 16 educational media companies, objected to UCLA's practice of allowing students to stream copyrighted videos on their course websites. Since course websites are not classrooms, the group said, the "fair use" exemptions for educational use do not apply.

For IT directors at schools debating whether to use Sakai or Moodle as a course management solution, here is a side by side comparison. All signs point strongly towards Moodle kicking Sakai's butt and to the Mellon Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and Sakai Partners wasting $6.6M.

Moodle: 2,981 deployments / 54% market share Blackboard + WebCT: 2,500 deployments / 45% market share Sakai: 35 deployments / .63% market share

Links: # Why use Moodle? # Moodle Tutorials # Wikieducator tutorial/Getting started/Create Moodle-account # Moodle for Wikieducators # Free Moodle for Teachers (M4T) Online Workshops # Free Moodle Overview for potential Admins/enthusiasts and other free Moodle courses/resources for teachers

Design web sites using CSS (cascading style sheets) for complete control over the style of the page.

Online style guide to designing a website. It is a fabulous resource for anyone interested in developing web pages.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.\n\nThey provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.\n\n\n

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

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It is important that e-Learning professionals, researchers, experts, and learners have a common basis in order to communicate effectively. In other words, they need to "speak the same language".  Therefore, I have created the following list of e-learning glossaries.