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Helpful screencast on how to find images for your presentations. Explains Creative commons searching on compfight.com

This screencast may be useful if you plan an activity that requires students to make presentations. Also useful for your class presentations

Thanks Newman, this is great. Something to keep in mind for students and faculty wanting to publish to iTunes University as well. I have seen several podcasts with blacked out scenes because there wasn't permission to show the content or images that was being presented.

"Guest Article -- It's All in the Presentation: Communicating Effectively With Nurse Audiences"

Good presentation design specific for Nurse educators

Newman's "Make great powerpoint presentations" Diigo List. This is a collection of good powerpoint help sites

Pretty good presentation of how to use Google Apps for Education. While, this is focused on a K-12 audience, it could certainly be relevant to nurse educators. Journaling, surveys, E-portfolios can all be done with Google applications for free!

The modules consist of 17 activity guides with 4 accompanying PowerPoint presentations. Each activity guide includes a list of further resources.

Use Yodio to add your voice to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your students.

On the Journal's beta site, we pursue new ideas in publishing and showcase innovative ways to present information for use in medical education, research, and clinical practice. This beta site is part of our commitment to physicians who "Never Stop Learning". Please check back often.

"I start with a brief explanation of the next concept or topic. I then present the students with a short puzzle or problem incorporating this concept. The students discuss the problem in small groups of 2-4, and then vote using polling hardware or "clickers" similar to TV remotes. After everyone has voted, the results appear on the screen at the front of the class. A well-chosen problem is one for which about 70% of the students get the right answer"

Faculty explains using the 'Peer Instruction' technique promoted by Eric Mazur of Harvard. The technique uses clickers to facilitate active learning in large classes.

More ideas for using a Flip cam (Pocket Video Camera) in your class

Ok, this has gotten me motivate to try out my flip video this weekend....the potential use is great,...plan is I am going to try using it to highlight a new piece of technology that we just purchased called the sonic care, I have used this device, which is like an ultrasound machine to a vein on a person that was next to impossible to start.

This is great news. Good luck! I'm interested to find out how you edit the movie files. I've yet to find a good solution - the .mp4 files require file conversion to get into my editing software. If you have iMovie, it's not a problem ... I think. Let us know how it turns out!

"Biomedical PowerPoint Toolkit Suite All 8 PowerPoint Toolkits with over 2,000 professionally designed and ready-to-use slides and diagrams to help you create professional presentations All diagrams are vector-based and placed in PowerPoint slides already. They can be freely edited, adjusted, scaled and colored in PowerPoint. Download Demo Slides "

While not free, these graphic diagrams could be a real benefit to your teaching practice.

A good overview of tips and techniques to make good powerpoint presentations.

This is a good resource for those revamping powerpoint slides for your courses

"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!!"

An example of a educational technology conference held in Second Life. Many of our community will attend - Hope to see you there!

"Join colleagues from across the country in exploring how open access is transforming learning in higher education. Apple and MacLearning.org invite you to AcademiX 2010 for a look at open access, the new teaching methods that are evolving with it, and the Apple technologies that help make it all simple. Six 20-minute talks will expose you to successful approaches, and jump-start a provocative conversation between participants and presenters."

Mary Barzee and I attended this conference last year. It was very well done. Registeration is free and accessable via webinar.

Labyrinth is an experimental educational pathway authoring and delivery system being developed at the University of Edinburgh along with a number of other partners. Users are presented with set or randomly selected choices as they move through a Labyrinth, each of which has a consequence for the user. Examples include virtual patients, quizzes, games and tutorials.

Examples of case studies with

Leaders in the Use of Technology in Nursing Education to Collaborate with the Global Community ABNF 2010

Great place to start looking for ideas!