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 partners piloted the learning objects and case studies in their own programs
and facilitated the dissemination and adoption by others. In order to do this in
a cost-effective, quality manner, four types of teams collaborate on meeting the
following objectives:"
For the Nurse Educator hoping to incorporate the QSEN competencies into student learning experience, this site lists strategies (submitted by users) to be used in planning.
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."
ISTE requires membership but did listen to the free webinar on digital story telling which i am currently using in the graduate level nursing theory course. Students are assigned to do a 3-5 minute digital story using a nursing theorist. These are due in April, so I'll send you the link once they are completed, i am hoping that they will use quicktime so that i can link the stories into Second life.
Sonya,
It appears that the VoiceThread Archives are in the .mov format. HOORAY! Here is a link to the VoiceThread Blog with details: http://voicethread.com/blog/#20080309
iNet has done a featured tool article on Flip Video focusing on a project that Dr. Nancy Short did with her Doctor of Nursing Practice Health Policy students. This article gives more information and project ideas abou the Flip Video at an elementary school level. (We in higher ed have a lot to learn from those teachers!)
Health Study Weekly - an online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to health education.
Read and subscribe free of charge at: http://paper.li/f-1327779598
"The ICU Mind Maps covering the JFICM Fellowship Exam curriculum are in pdf format. They were created by Dr. Paul Young in preparing for the JFICM Fellowship exam in 2007-2008. They are provided free and may be redistributed for educational purposes."
I just finished reviewing these maps and they are wonderful and would be an excellent resource for adult and acute care nurse practitioners. Some would work for undergraduate students, however they are at a high level.
The program incorporates commonly held cultural beliefs in the Latino community, using them to frame abstinence and condom use as acceptable and effective health strategies.