Nursing educational technologies

"Second Life Educational Summer Retreat July 13, 2010 :: Second Life"

A educational conference in Second Life in July, 2010

" Welcome to the Nurse Educator Partnership IMER recognizes the important role nurse educators play in advancing oncology nursing practice. The Nurse Educator Partnership has been established to provide opportunities for oncology nurse educators to network with peers, access to educator resources and thought leaders, and professional development support."

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

Good presentation design specific for Nurse educators

Skitch is a Mac only screenshot caputure. It does not do video, like Jing. But the interface seems very nice. Take a peek.

LARGE list of collaboration tools - well respected and comprehensive list (as much as an internet list can be)

The courses I found were from the United Kingdom which would help students see a different health care system.

"Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web."

This is an open source LMS, which could be compared to MOODLE

After a quick review, i would say this open source is much more friendly than Moodle and feels more like you are in a microsoft application...definitely worth use

Graphics of the human body and more

The graphics are copyright protected, but you could link to them.

A search results page for a search engine for free online courses.

I wonder if any of our nursing schools have open courses. Could we put the iNET CEU and IOM modules here?

Are you using mind mapping and reference management tools such as Mind Manager, FreeMind, JabRef, Endnote, or Zotero? And do you sometimes even make use of the bookmark functionality in your PDF Reader? Then you should have a look at FreeMind Scholar because FreeMind Scholar aims to integrate mind mapping with reference and pdf management.

Reference management tool might help you to write scholarly articles.

THE COURSE OF INNOVATION: Using Technology to Transform Higher Education By Ben Miller Course redesign examples in a 29 page report

Could give you ideas as to how to redesign a course to be higher quality

"While telemedicine may seem a cold and impersonal approach to patient care, physicians say it's exactly the opposite. And they are quickly embracing it as a way to foster a more intimate relationship with patients and educate them about treatments prior to office visits."

Good article on e-Health, EMR, and social media for healthcare

IntelliResponse had made its Answer Suite product accessible through Blackboard Learn.

This was written for K-12 educator audience, but has some very good advice for those looking at starting a digital storytelling project.

"Whether you are looking for tools that can bring a distance education class together or tools to help students and teachers in traditional classrooms working on group projects, the following collaboration tools will help with any need. From group papers to file sharing to group communication, the following tools will help bring any educational group together seamlessly to produce awesome results."

Collaboration and group work tools. A long list, but would give you a sense of what's out there.

"Six Nursing faculty and one graduate student participated in a CIT Fellows Program to develop methods evaluate the quality of the School's online courses. The group created an evaluation rubric, applied it to their courses, and conducted student focus groups to provide feedback about online course quality. "

Standardized rubric for online classes produced by faculty at the Duke School of Nursing

"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.

"The California Healthcare Foundation has released a new whitepaper, How Smartphones Are Changing Health Care for Consumers and Providers, authored by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. Key findings include: * Two thirds of physicians used a smart phone in 2009 * 6% of physicians were using an electronic medical records system * 42% of Americans use smartphones * Top uses of smartphones for consumers include: medication adherence, home monitoring, fitness apps, managing chronic conditions"

Good suggestions and examples for social media in the classroom (Both K-12 and Higher Ed)

Professional organization for all Registered Nurses in North Carolina