iPod in instruction

On a website i found that nursing students are using video ipods to teach lessons.The use of technology has increased in several teaching institutions. These technologies include podcasting, webbased teaching and simulation. The purpose of this project is to compare student performance between students who are taught nursing skills by faculty demonstration and those taught nursing skills delivered via video iPods. A convenience sample of 10 first semester junior students participated in the study. Students were supplied a video iPod with prerecorded nursing skills. The nursing skills were taught and recorded by faculty members in a detailed manner.Students practiced nursing skills at different times than students taught by faculty demonstration and were able to view the skills anytime on the iPod. All 10 students successfully checked-off on skill return demonstration. In addition, the video iPods were utilized in the clinical setting. Students viewed the skill demonstration on the video iPod prior to performing the skill on a patient. The use of video iPods can serve as an extension of faculty members. Future implications for research and practice include patient teaching, hospital manual for nurses, student teaching and teaching new faculty members. This project was funded by the PARTNERS Organization which supports nursing research and nursing scholarships.

Dr. Christie

Dr. Alice A. Christie, Arizona State University President’s Professor Emeritus, got her Ph.D. in Educational Technology and Language and Literacy from Arizona State University in 1995.She speaks and conducts workshops nationally and internationally on how technology can enhance teaching and learning.
Dr. Alice Christie's website has great information on it. It can help teachers in many different ways. On one part of her website she was holding workshops on how to teach geocaching podcast.She also teaches GPS pod casting. She also explains how this technology will help the teachers.Dr. Chrisite feels that technology is the best thing in the world.
She also touches on web design and how to design a web page.Also how to put photos on the web page and how to make the design to your standards. If you are a teacher you can design a web page and post your lectures and homework assignments so students can go back and check things.

iTunes II

The Edible school was about a school " Martin Luther King Jr" school uses their garden to teach different subjects. When they are doing a experiment with a pumpkin they were integrating social studies and math. They also understand how to have responsibility and they teaches the students how to prepare for the world as well. The learn about the diversity of the ecosystem and building community by helping each other. Where one child is gifted in math or science, other students may be gifted in the garden. The garden started by having a healthier lunch for the students and evolved into other things.
Being a teacher using this style of teaching could be fun. When you see a students learning because of a unconventional way is awesome. You can see that using standard methods can help but having the students help in the lesson will make them feel like they were apart of the process.

A night in the Global Village was about a group of students who had to live in different living experiences. Rocky Mountain School does this every year. The student had to live in poor conditions and had to beg for water and food. This video has taught me that there is still teachers in this world who is trying to teach their students right. I feel that this is a good learning experience for all students .

i Tunes University

iTunes University is a online learning device. This site allows students not to have to sit at a boring desk all day. The teachers can post and receive things on the iTunes University. The iTunes University can also be used anywhere and at anytime.

As a future teacher i feel that this device can make or break a situation. I know that as a future teacher some students needs that one on one time and you can not get that if you are giving out instruction over a device. You also cant answer specific questions like you could in person.
On the other hand have iTunes in my daily lecturing would help the students. If they did not understand the lesson they could always go back and look at it again, where as if i was in person i would try to answer the question to the best of my knowledge, but i could not go home with the student when he or she did not understand it when it was homework time.

Wickipedia

After learning that you can change Wikipedia i don't know if i will ever use that site again. I use to use this site for all of my research for papers or projects. Knowing what I know now I will never see Wikipedia as a reliable source anymore.

It states on NPR that anyone can go on the website and edit the information to say what they want it to say. That type of information can be strictly biased. It has also been stated that people sometimes go on the site and edit it just to mess the information up. That is not fair, people who is using this site may not know that it is incorrect information and will get some statements wrong.

This site is not all bad, some people are taking precautions to make the site better. There is a tracking device now where when a person edits the information their name will show up, and you can't make edits without giving a name.

I am glad that the right steps are being taken so people can enjoy the website and not have to worry about getting wrong information.

Randy Pauch's Last Lecture

This was an awesome lecture. In this lecture Randy talked about how you have to be good at something in order for that something to work. He also talks about how you may run into obstacles and may not know how to get it done but you will just have to find a way to get through them. He also talked about how you have to chase your dreams, don't ever stop dreaming and try to reach all your goals.

During this whole speech Randy seemed like a very humble man,and didn't seem like he was having a pity party because he was sick and dying. I felt that everything he was saying to the audience was heart felt and he meant it. He was trying to let people know that you can do anything thing you want if you work at it.

I was torn about this blog assignment at first, listening to a dying mans speech but I am glad Dr. Strange pointed this out to me. I feel like there was some things I was taking for granted and the speech made me realize that you have to always go after your dreams and that they are only as far away as you make them