This video is of Michael Wesch talking to the Library of Congress is a must see for educators.
Whe you have 55 minutes, you should watch it. It's worth your time, I promise.
Wesch also spoke at the CHAT festival in Chapel Hill earlier this year that Newman and I attended. He hit on some of the same points, but this talk below is quite extradordinary. It is an expansion of his short video by the same name.
"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life.
The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education.
Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"
This site has over 18,000,000 sets of flash cards posted. Over 2,000 are tagged with "nursing". The site is well organized, providing easy access to card sets for specific topics.
"HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. Through generous funding by IAMSE, HEAL is becoming a dynamic, user-centered digital environment to allow medical educators to share and discuss teaching resources and methods. This is being accomplished through the incorporation of key characteristics of Web 2.0 technologies into HEAL including user reviews of resources and user tagging (searchable keywords) of resources. "
A teachign and learning material repository built by the Consortium for Health Professions Educators at Duke.
This site "provides links to information and internal and external resources to help faculty in many areas" concerning the scholarship of teaching and technology innovations. Also, the builders hope that faculty will participate and " contribute ideas, experiences, questions, resources, and so on."
"The website is considered to be a "living" resource that will change continually
and to which each faculty member may contribute ideas, experiences, questions,
resources, and so on."