MVCR Tech Tools

Free, high-quality videos for various medical, nursing, and biology courses.

This online article listed 10 tips for using social media to maintain social connections during the emergency transition to online education during COVID-19 pandemic. These tips are still helpful for post-pandemic online teaching.

This is an interesting idea that comes full circle to the original intention of Facebook. Build (and control) individual university social networks.

This is an interesting article that discusses the importance of creating "community" with social media and how it's important to incorporate into the classroom. The startling statistic that the authors cite is that 96% of students are using at least 1 form of social media.

This a great (free) Pharmacology Open Education Resource (OER) for any nursing faculty. I have utilized this in my classes and my students have reported positive feedback on this resource. The e-book also has interactive case studies that I have implemented too. The same company is developing a Fundamentals nursing book (OER) that is set to launch later this summer.

This website offers case studies in biology.

Teachers should only use social media as a teaching tool to improve their students' education. "If it's not to the betterment of your kids, why are you doing it? It may not be for you," says Brian Aspinall, an elementary teacher in Chatham, ON who speaks and blogs about technology and educational reform. "Don't do it because you went to a conference on Twitter and someone said you should do it."

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This website hosts OER instructional videos on topics in math, including algebra, calculus, liberal arts math, and more.

Personally, I am against use of social media in the class.

This paper explains very clearly the meaning of multiliteracies and multimodality. In education this pedagogy brought new teaching and learning methods which are different from traditional approaches that focused on monomodal tools for learning. Multiliteracy gives flexibility in teaching and learning. Students learn in different ways, some of them prefer linguistic expression while others are more open to multimodal forms.

This paper raises serious doubts regarding the success of our educational system in preparing students for the knowledge society. According to the author the knowledge economy "...holds the promise of changing, to our benefit, some of the most deep-seated and universal regularities of economic life and of dramatically enhancing productivity and growth. Its effects, however, have so far proved modest." The disruption brought by the new technologies can cause an even bigger inequality in societies. Worth thinking about it.

Great tips!!

Help is on the way!

An approach for podcast integration into online classes

This is a short, quick checklist for social presence strategies

We are the disrupters.

Interesting view of pandemic and educaiton. Discussion of MOOCs