| I attended several courses on web-based
courses: WebCT Introduction
: The course is offered through Leadership Valencia and highlights the
structure of a course in WebCT. During the Fall 2003 semester, I was asked to teach
Patient Care Management online with Pat Woodbery . I was able to begin
working with Amy Eager and gain experience setting up the course. During Summer of 2004, I was able to build Pharmacology Online
in WebCT (use
login studentguimond for login and password) without assistance. It allowed students the freedom to access the course at any time. This replaced the on campus requirement for the seminar portion of the
course.
WebCT Online Seminar: Building
and Using Cool Interactive Learning Objects for Online Courses: The course was
offered through the WebCT website. It demonstrated how one could use learning
objects to enhance teaching. Learning objects are games and interactive
techniques that allow the student to see their progress or animations that illustrate
concepts. As we move towards online testing and alternative format questions this
knowledge will be quite valuable.
All levels a of Front
Page: The course is offered through Leadership Valencia and I learned how to use
this software to create web pages. I been self taught and my website still needs
some work, but this course helped me to design a more aesthetically pleasing site and easier to navigate (compare to before course) It also introduced me to some
shortcuts and tools in the program.
I am scheduled to take a course in MacroMedia
Flash which will teach me how to do simple animations.
I have made use of Power Point in the
classroom. You can view the following power points:
Hypertension
Pain Medications
Antivirals
& antitubercular
I have tried to maintain the guidelines for
use of an effective Power Point presentation
(http://education.umn.edu/tel/itfellows/power_point_design/index_design.htm)
- Keep cool colors as backgrounds, notice that most
of my slides are blue with heavily contrasting type. This calls the readers
attention to the words, not the background.
- Avoid all word slides, keeps the audience
attention.
- Limit bullets to less than 6 words and bullets to
less than 6 per page. This keeps the reader from having to read every page.
Power points should highlight points and guide the lecturer, not be the lecture. In
some cases, I have broken this rule when I want the student to have the information.
- Limit animations. Too many animations or
effects distract from the presentation. If you want to call attention to something
or wake up the audience this effect may be helpful. Otherwise, animations such as
flying in type and swirls can be detrimental to the presentation.
- Consistency keeps people focused on the
presentation, not on why did the font change?
During Spring of 2003, I implemented a web-enhanced activity for NUR
1141C. The students were provided guidelines and go on a web search to find
information for a drug and evaluate the reliability of the website. I incorporated
Judi Delisle's website for
Internet Research. Because lay people frequently do research on the internet, I
believe it is imperative that nurses have some skills to evaluate the information
available. Much of the information out there is quite good but if nurses do
not know what is reliable and what is not, they cannot guide their patients. Most
students once focused, really found this assignment helpful and did quite well.
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