another technology expierence

Well is another technological experience under my belt. Wonderful experience today using a audio pod cast conference call for CEUs. Forget the paper and pencil stuff this is the way to do it. A group of nurses sitting in a conference room hook up to a conference call with other hospital which contained more nurses. We were able to listen to the lecture and ask questions to the speaker regarding the presentation. Again nurses from all over the dfw area were able to take part in a program.

Learing experiences with technology

Well the semester is getting closer to the end YEA!!! I have learned a great deal about technology this semester. And this is coming from someone who looked at technology and wanted none of it. I am also very fortunate that I work at a hospital with very advanced technology to help me along in the learning process. I had my first experience video pod cast. Amazing tool- 3 class rooms could see each other and interact from 3 different locations. This was important because 1 instructor could instruct- with the shortage of nursing instructors this seem like a very important way to help out with the nursing shortage.

Developing Evaluation Tools

Well I am not sad to say the semester is coming to a close and I am HAPPY! I really have enjoyed this class. And I take from it some valuable information regarding developing evaluation tools. Not only did I have a project in this class but it coincided with a project at work where I need to develop a tool so that I was able to understand the results of a survey. The whole concept was pretty scary when I first started this class but now I understand it much more clearly and it really helps me understand better when I read journal articles and I am trying to understand the tools they used and the results they obtained- Thanks for the learning experience!!

Evaluation tools

I am very fortunate that I have the chance to practice what I am learning in the course in my job. I recently had the wonderful opportunity to work on a research project that goes along with an abstract myself and another nurse wrote. I was in charge of designing an evaluation tool for the program-scary!!! However it was a great learning experience for me. I realized many mistakes that I had made on the evaluation tool we are developing for this course, and gave me a chance to make changes. I am very thankful for the opportunity to have this expeienve it has really given me a better grasp of the concept and I was able to see where I was going off trake.