Nursing educational technologies

Great content on Genetics with incredible interactive animations. If you teach genetics, you need to look at this site for possible use in your class.

If you teach genetics, you need to look at this site for possible use in your class.

Handout material that explain how to use VoiceThread in the classroom. There are several PDFs with good discussion questions for use in a VoiceThread activity.

A grouping tool for Twitter. It may be useful, for trying twitter in your class.

A grouping tool for Twitter. It may be useful, for trying twitter in your class.

Great resource for story telling.

If you are thinking of a digital storytelling assignment for your classes, this is the place to start. Clear instructions and links to good resources

This site lists three case studies of how groups are using Second Life in education (The New Media Consortium, the Open University, and Loyalist College), as well as lists a few good links to more resources

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.

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A good video demonstration of VoiceThread

After looking at voice thread I started thinking of ways in which I could utilize this technology in teaching my undergraduate students and it dawned on me that I could post a picture of the Amish and ask my students to share comments about the amish culture which would be useful in facilitating optimal outcomes with clients. At the graduate level, I was thinking of posting a diagram of a nursing model and asking the students to give an example of an application of the model to a client scenario. And in teaching nurse practitioners, I could post a picture of a patient and tell the story then ask students to identify a possible differential with rational. With 6 students in a clinical, 6 possible differentials could be generated from viewing a picture of the client and listening to the story in context.

Import a list of Questions / Answers (or front and back) for flashcards and then print them out. Instrutors could make these available for students. Or, student could make them available for each other.

I really like the use of flashcards especially for undergraduate students. An assignment can be designed in which each student is to do one flashcard for each lecture. As a faculty member, I can collect all of the flash cards and utilize them in class as a learning tool with students.

Twitter Lists - a new feature of twitter is helpful for organizations, this blog post shows you 4 examples

The potential of SecondLife comes alive in this presentation. This virtual hospital is scheduled to open in 2011 by - PALOMAR WEST MEDICAL CENTER . Palomar West Medical Center is a Magnet designated facility.

This site was designed with the purpose of making the general public aware of socially relevant diseases and help them judge the potentially dangerous disease at early stages . It is a Medical Diagnosis System in SecondLife.

A virtual medical Center tour at the University of Auckland. The Second Life Tour is led by project director Scott Diener, Ph.D.

This is a short video outlining how staff and students can use Second Life to support teaching, learning and collaborative working.

This video (created by Claudia Kimbrough) shows the use of Second Life in two College of Management courses. This innovative teaching and learning environment is a part of NC State University's LITRE (Learning in a Technology Rich Environment) program and a part of VOLT: Virtual Online Learning and Teaching, a comprehensive, collaborative project on online learning led by Len Annetta.

This Youtube was developed by Chris Keesey at Ohio University. I met him as the 2009 Sloan C conference. This video was designed to promote the use of second life at the Ohio University Second Life Campus; a virtual campus featuring multiple learning and collaboration opportunities for students on the Ohio campus and all over the world. For more information contact: keesey@ohio.edu.

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