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Offsite Websites That Are Pertinent to This Chapter

Digital Natives or Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants -- A New Way To Look At Ourselves and Our Kids
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: Part II Do They Really Think Differently?
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part2.pdf

More on this topic from Marc Prensky
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/

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Instructional Design

Instructional Design. Links to information about many different theories of instructional design.
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/development.html

Instructional Design from Wikipedia. Some good solid information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_design

Steps in the Instructional Design Process. A good description of the 8 steps and information about writing objectives.
http://www.uab.edu/uasomume/cdm/id.htm

Learning Management Systems

Alvarado, Pat. (2004). Seven Steps to Selecting a Learning Management System. Read before you select an LMS!
http://www.elearning-engineering.com/lms/

Free Course Management System. Moodle is an open source, free software package designed to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.
http://moodle.org/

Siemens, George (2004, November 22). Learning Management Systems:The wrong place to start learning. An excellent discussion of some of the drawbacks of LMSs and some thoughts about remediating these.
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/lms.htm

Learning Management System Software Directory. Lists some examples of software with a brief discussion of each as well as links for more information including videos.
http://www.capterra.com/learning-management-system-software

Wikipedia Learning management system. Although this page is not up to Wikipedia's Quality standards, there is some helpful information here explaining what they are and what they do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system

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Make Your Own Videos (Freeware)

BB Flashback Express.
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/bbflashbackexpress/home.aspx

CAM Studio Open Source. Free Streaming Video Software.
http://camstudio.org/

Debut Video Capture Software. Record video from webcam, capture devices or screen.
http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html

Web Based Screencasting Apps - Create Screencast Videos sans Software. Description and links to three screen recording programs that are Web-based.
http://www.labnol.org/software/web-screencasting-apps-create-screencasts-online/6038/

Online Learning

Analyzing learner and instructional needs when preparing for online learning. Follow some of the links in the left side of the screen for more information on designing online learning. Very helpful.
http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/designDev.html

American Association of Colleges in Nursing (2002). AACN White Paper: Distance Technology in Nursing Education. Excellent source of information, should be read whether you are already involved in distance learning, or about to start.
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/positions/whitepaper.htm

Boettcher, J. V. (2003). How Many Students Are Just Right in a Web Course? Besides the topic of the title this article also looks at faculty workload with distance education.
http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/number.htm

Distance Education at a Glance from the University of Idaho. Excellent resource, 13 chapters online about distance education including an overview, information about instructional design and a glossary. Is a little dated, but the basics are solid. Tip #8 Strategies for Learning at a Distance.
http://www.uidaho.edu/eo/distglan.html

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Is Online Learning for You?

Surveys to determine if online learning is for you.
http://www.nactel.org/learning/forme.php and
http://www.marylandonline.org/assessments/online_learning_for_me

Survey of technical skills necessary for online learning.
http://www.marylandonline.org/prospective_students/assess/tech_savvy

Resources for Creating Online Education

Health Tutorial Resources and Nursing. Links to over 100 resources for learning including tutorials. Could be assigned, or woven into an online synonymous class.
http://www.khake.com/page91.html

Knowledge Weavers. This site from the University of Utah has many excellent illustrations of various medical conditions and physiological functions. Under tools there are free interactive online quiz tools available for downloading, a template for content development, and an anatomy outliner with many illustrations. The site states "The images and other materials found on this web site are freely available for non-profit use by other health sciences educators. It is requested that the authors of these materials be acknowledged when these items are used."
http://medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials, submitted for use by faculty, are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. These materials are available free of use to anyone. To find nursing materials, search for the topic.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses. "A comprehensive resource for quality and safety education for nurses!...Faculty resources on this website include annotated bibliographies and teaching strategies submitted by faculty."
http://www.qsen.org/

Web Quests. A Web Quest is a model for designing effective Web-based instructional activities. They focus on analyzing, synthesizing, and problem solving rather than finding Web resources. They can be designed for individual or group activities.
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

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Free Quiz Makers

Quiz Faber. An excellent online quiz program. Many different options for questions. Can have results mailed to you. For instructions on an older version use see Thede, L. Q. (2006). "Nursing-oriented Web resources." CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing 24(3): 124-9. I have experimented with this and was impressed.
http://www.lucagalli.net/en/

Question Writer 3 Basic. For creating multiple choice online questions.
http://www.questionwriter.com/free-quiz-software.html

Free quiz maker for online testing. Creates online tests with combined multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank, punctuation and essay questions types.
http://www.classmarker.com/?g=teacher.net

Free Puzzle Makers

Create crossword puzzles to print. You can create your own, or use one of theirs. There are quite a few here about anatomy and physiology.
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/printable-worksheets/make-your-own/crossword/

Create crossword or word search puzzles.
http://www.armoredpenguin.com/

Eclipse Crossword. A free crossword creator that can be downloaded to your computer. The resulting puzzle can be interactive on the Web.
|http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eclipsecrossword/

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Patient Education

Health Tutorial Resources. Aimed at a vocational audience, there are many helpful tutorials and other information here. Would also be great for patients.
http://www.khake.com/page91.html

Medscape Interactive Health Tutorials from the Patient Education Institute. Designed for patients, these tutorials explain a condition in lay terminology, use Flash graphics and provide audio accompaniment. An excellent resource.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html

Medscape Anatomical Line Drawings. These cover every system and can be used with or without labels. (Must register first (free).
http://www.medscape.com/pages/features/ald/fb/index-fb

Technology in Education

Faculty Instructional Technology Resources - Best Practices: Overview. An overview of instructional technology with links to many resources including an excellent Word document on Creating an Online Course. A few things that are specific to U Michigan, but most are helpful for all.
http://www.nursing.umich.edu/facultyresources/bestPractices/index.html

Simulations

International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. The home page of a group whose mission is to is to promote and provide the development and advancement of clinical simulation and learning resource centers. This group has a journal which is available to members (abstracts of articles to all) There is also a member listserv.
http://www.inacsl.org/index.html

Second Life.Real Life Teaching in a Virtual World. Discusses the use of Second Life in a Virtual World.
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/02/18/Real-Life-Teaching-in-a-Virtual-World.aspx

John Miller Blog. A nursing faculty at Tacoma Community College, Mr. Miller's blog has some links to some of his creations.
http://jsvavoom.blogspot.com/

Second Life

Interview with John Miller, nursing faculty at Tacoma Community College. He uses Second Life, a multi-player user environment to teach. There are other links about using Second Life in education
http://geoffcain.podcastpeople.com/posts/12509

Virtual Reality

Beier, K. P. Virtual Reality: A Short Introduction. A short article with illustrations.
http://www-vrl.umich.edu/intro/

A definition of virtual reality.
http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/v/virtual_reality.html

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Free Educational Programs

Auscultation Assistant. This site offers recordings of heart sounds and a description of what is causing them. Excellent site.
http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/intro.html

McGill University Virtual Stethoscope. Provides sound files for both respiratory and cardiovascular sounds.
http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/mvs/mvsteth.htm

Cardiology

ACLS. Interactive Instruction and information on Advanced Cardiac Life Support for health care professionals. No charge to use.
http://www.aclspro.com/

Atlas of Human Cardiology. This site from the University of Minnesota features illustrations of the various parts of the heart plus movies of the various parts as they function.
http://www.vhlab.umn.edu/atlas/atlas.html

Cases and Examples of ECGs. To gain full advantage you need to register - which is free. Would be very helpful to anyone teaching ECGs.
http://en.ecgpedia.org/wiki/Cases_and_Examples

ECG Library. A collection of ECGs organized by the cardiac condition they represent.
http://www.ecglibrary.com/

Normal and Abnormal EKGs. Shows EKGs for different conditions and a normal one. Accompanying heart sounds too.
http://www.bioscience.org/atlases/heart/

Practice Tests for ACLU certification. Also information about what to look for in a course.
http://www.aclsrecertificationonline.com/.

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Multiple Resources

NDNQI Tutorial about assessing pressure sores.
https://www.nursingquality.org/NDNQIPressureUlcerTraining/Default.aspx

University of Michigan School of Nursing Student Modules. Excellent use of design to teach principles of many topics including, but definitely not limited to, statistics, musculo-skeletal and abdominal anatomy. Requires the latest Flash reader (available at http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/, but are well worth it.
http://www.nursing.umich.edu/studentresources/modules.html

Physical Exams and History Taking

Chandrasekhar, A. J. Screening Physical Exam. From Loyola University Medical Education Network. For physical exams, the list of steps, how to perform the step, what is normal, what is abnormal and the knowledge required to perform the test is provided. A self evaluation module is created for each step to ensure that you have comprehended the information.
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/MEDICINE/PULMONAR/pdself/menu_f.htm

Medical History Taking Study Guide
Although physician oriented, provides good basic material on how to take a patients history.
http://medinfo.ufl.edu/year1/bcs96/clist/history.html

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Miscellaneous

Breastfeeding and Lactation. This power point presentation is a was prepared by Teresa Johnson, MACT, RD, LD. Troy University School of Nursing. Fall 2005. Contains a posttest. Excellent source of information.
http://spectrum.troy.edu/~tjohnson/lactation/LactationTutorial_files/frame.htm

Intravenous Cannulation. Step by step guide with illustrations. Requires IE.
http://www.emergency-nurse.org/tutorials/iv/process.htm

Mrs. Reynolds Needs a Nurse. Many of you may remember this film from school days. It is now available for free viewing on the Web. Uniforms are dated, but the information is still current.
http://www.son.washington.edu/about/h_mrs-reynolds.asp

Prelinger Archives. Founded in 1996 this site Archive has historical texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages that are available for reuse as well as repurposing without paying any royalties.
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

Pharmacology Math. This site provides tutorials and pretests in basic math calculations, and quizzes.
http://www.accd.edu/sac/nursing/math/default.html

Power Point slides on many different topics and PDF Files are available free from this site at Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins. Take a trip there and peruse all the topics.
http://www.nursing2004.com/pt/re/nursing/educators.htm;jsessionid=GcphPVZ2b9NfnYvKdMn18fQW
kvCh7GyGGV1ZV71bydT3pMSbL4BZ!-712222271!-949856144!8091!-1

SlideShare. Slides submitted by others on many topics. No audio in the ones that I viewed. Search for nursing to find nursing slides.
http://www.slideshare.net/

Surgery Videos. - Demonstrations. This site for medical professionals provides videos of many different surgical procedures, some are narrated, others not. Users must register, but there is no charge. Once registered, you can search for the type of surgery that you wish to view.http://www.demonstras.com/index.php


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Websites Referred to in Text of Chapter

An example of an online survey. http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

Flashcard Friends. http://www.flashcardfriends.com/

Purchase electronic flash cards.

A web site designed to assist with learning facts at the knowledge level. http://nursing.iweb.bsu.edu/bbcourses/201/flashcards

Congestive Heart Failure tutorial. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/
congestiveheartfailure/htm/index.htm

A Flash simulation about managing post-operative pain and PCA. http://www2.cdl.edu/painless/

Simulation for assessing blood pressure. http://132.241.10.14/bp/bp.html

Free download of a Flash player. http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/

Kidney Patient Guide. http://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/site/treatment.php

Outbreak at Water’s Edge:  A Public Health Discovery Game. http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/

Fun interactive games. http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/

Quiz Faber. http://www.lucagalli.net/

Survey Monkey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/

NCLEX Simulation Test. http://www.pearsonvue.com/nclex/#tutorial

Multimedia Education Resource for Online Learning and Teaching (MERLOT). http://www.merlot.org

Common Currency Project. http://currency.medicine.dal.ca/video.htm

Martindale’s Reference Desk. http://www.martindalecenter.com/

Croquet. http://www.opencroquet.org)

Croquet. http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page

Second Life. http://secondlife.com/

CDC on Second Life. http://world.secondlife.com/group/0b6a166f-e05b-d6d9-c10e-30fd8771225a

HealthInfo Island http://infoisland.org/2007/02/18/health-info-island-this-week/

Virtual Hallucinations at http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ais/virtualhallucinations/

Ambien Intelligence. http://www.ambientintelligence.org/

Clicker software and hardware.

ADA standards for e-learning

Kidney School. http://www.kidneyschool.org

Assessment tools for eLearning.

American Nursing Association listing of online CE learning resources. http://nursingworld.org/ce/cehome.cfm

 

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References in this Chapter that are Online

Advanced Distributed Learning. (2007). SCORM®  2004, 3rd edition.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/index.aspx

Chickering, A. W., & Ehrmann, S. C. (1996). Implementing the seven principles: Technology as lever.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

Educause. (2005). 7 things you should know about clickers.   Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf

Eon Reality. (2008). i3D Symposium.   Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://newsblaze.com/story/2008010909561100001.mwir/topstory.html

Greenberg, L. (2002, December 9). LMS and LCMS:  What's the difference?   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.learningcircuits.org/NR/exeres/72E3F68C-4047-4379-8454-2B88C9D38FC5.htm

Half-Baked Software Inc. (2007a). Hot Potatoes ™ Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Half-Baked Software Inc. (2007b). Quandary Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Jafari, A., McGee, P., & Carmean, C. (2006, July/August). Managing courses, defining learning: What faculty, students, and administrators want [Electronic Version]. EDUCAUSE Review, 41, 50-71. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0643.pdf.

Keyboard. (2007).   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/

Medical Education Institute. (2006). Kidney School™:  Unique CKD education tool [Electronic Version]. In Control, 3, 4. Retrieved January 2, 2009 from http://www.lifeoptions.org/catalog/pdfs/news/icv3n2.pdf.

MERLOT. (n.d.). About us.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://taste.merlot.org/

NCSBN. (n.d.). Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) overview.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, 2007, from https://www.ncsbn.org/CAT_Overview.pdf

News Blaze. (2008). EON Reality and Kentucky Community and Technical College System Create First Statewide Simulation-Based Learning Collaboration.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://newsblaze.com/story/2008010909561100001.mwir/newsblaze/
EDUCATIO/Education.html

Respondus ®. (2007). Studymate Author 2.0.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.respondus.com/products/studymate.shtml

Thalheimer, W. (2006, May 1). People remember 10%, 20%...Oh really?   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html

ThinkExist.com  Quotations. (2006). William Arthur Ward quotes.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if_you_can_imagine_it-you_can_achieve_it-if_you/15190.html

United States Access Board. (n.d.). E-Learning: Conforming to section 508.   Retrieved January 2, 2009, from http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/e-learning.htm

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