Nursing educational technologies

A detailed document for groups wanting to implement ePortfolio

This is an interesting site. It does appear that NC State has placed a strong emphasis on supporting distance education as well as finanical supporet to the faculty within their institution.

"The mission of ICDL US is to enable the proficient use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that empowers individuals, organisations and society"

It's like a drivers license for computers ... interesting idea.

This toolkit contains resources related to computer and information literacy

This is a fantastic resource that directly relates to the mission of http://www.inet-nurse.org. I feel confident in following the lead of the NLN in preparing technology savvy nurses and nurse educators. One idea was to establish a 'computer drivers license' - check on the site: http://www.icdlus.org/ Looking forward to implementing something like this.

"Preparing The Next Generation Of Nurses To Practice In A Technology-Rich Environment: An Informatics Agenda."

NLN's position paper on preparing nurses to work with technology

This is a short video that adminstration should look at as it recommends that online courses be developed by a team of 3 and 2 should be content experts. I wonder how often this happens in distance education or for in class on campus courses. Truely a good recommendation to have a quality product. Many first taught online coures are meager at best and faculty should become content experts in an area and allowed to teach the same course over a number of years in order to develop an online course toward the rubric.

This is the best internet timeline I've seen. A good thing to scan and get your bearings with most things related to the internet.

This site would be excellent to integrate into an informatics course.

This is an interesting post on clickers and one that should be read. The first time I saw clickers used, I was evaluating a junior faculty member and she had many many questions. And I was unsure of the connection of the question with objectives. This article recommends: many things but I will focus on 2: 1. Limit the number of clicker questions to five per class 2.Reserve questions for specific learning outcomes and goals (What do you want to stress? What cognitive skills do you want to develop? What do you want to reinforce?) I think if you get these two right the clickers will be a useful tool.

Good example of a 'learning Object' - animations and small units on Genetics

This is a great place to learn genetics, I tried numerous modules and they all work when you enter the web module, however there were no instructor instructions or student instructions on these tools,... only a screen stating it was under construction, so I would recommend that if you use this site you write clear instructions for your students. I plan to use the site with the nurse practitioners in the Spring. I will require the Genetic counseling one for this group. I hope that they will be intrigued and try some of the other modules, which they may have to do in order to correctly do the genetic counseling.

"Many Eyes" for emerging technologies for learning - a handbook

A very simple and straight forward way to do screenrecording. It's sort of like Jing, but you can record as long as you want. However, unlike, Jing you can't upload directly to screencast.com. Worth a look. I don't want to give up Jing, but this might be better for recording longer screencasts.

Most of these tools are free!

would be interested to learn what others think of this site

It's time to head back to school and there are a number of web-based and social tools to help you get through the school year. Here are 15 essential ones.\n

Good beginning resource for Clickers

A good Web 2.0 primer for educators

If you are teaching online, you owe it to yourself to spend some time on this site. Very well done and comprehensive.