Glogster and other technologies

 Glogster

As per usual I have done a lot of playing with presentation technologies in the last 2 weeks.  I completed another presentation on delegation this time using   Glogster.  I signed up for my Glogster Edu account for free using my University of Indianapolis email, you can pay for different versions which can cost up to $100 per year depending on how many students you have.  Glogster is a presentation technology that creates an interactive poster that you can add YouTube videos, audio recordings, links, and video recordings.  Glogster stands for graphic blog poster.  It was relatively easy to use once I watched some YouTube videos, no surprise there.  I have added the video that really details the process of creating a Glogster by Jen Jonson, she is very thorough, this really gave me a grasp on how to use the technology.  I added my own videos, my own audio, links, and a YouTube video.  I was really pleased on how it turned out.  Please click on the link and see my  Delegation Glogster.  Glogster is best viewed using Google Chrome.

Additional Technologies

    When deciding which presentation technology to pursue I played with a lot of tools.  I really liked Storyboard That.  This tool allows you to create online storyboards as an educational tool.  This was really neat to play with but did not meet the requirements I had for my presentation.  Storyboard That has a free version which has some limitations but they also have plans for $5.95 per month as well.

    I played with Empressr as well.  You can create your PowerPoint presentation and upload it to the empressr site or create your own presentation, you can add videos and links as well.  However, this program was not a lot different from the ones I had previously done and wanted to try something completely different.  The same can be said for Slideshare, I logged on a played around but this is really a presentation sharing site.  You create your presentations and then upload them to share but does not help create the presentations.  The last presentation technology I played with was Zoho presentation tools, it was very similar to the screencast-o-matic I used last time.  The Zoho site is really similar to Google Drive, with the ability to upload documents and share documents.  I am finding there are a lot of sites that are quite similar out there but they have different names.

Interactive Tools
    I have also been learning about interactivity tools via my professors blog.  I use interactivity tools all the time, which are videoconferencing, webinars, and websites for EKG practice.  I really like the ability to view and participate in many webinars, I am able to enhance my learning without having to travel to all the seminars.  I also get to practice my EKG skills via interactive websites that give practice strips or running strips that I can review and measure the intervals and polish my skills that I do not use often since I am no longer a bedside nurse.

Simulation

    Last week I started something really fun.  I began to create my first high fidelity simulation in the simulation lab of Fairbanks Hall.  I am lucky to work for a hospital system that has a wonderful simulation lab.  As part of the ICU nurse educator team, we have begun to change the way we teach continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) to ICU RN's.  We started by writing clinical scenarios regarding surgical sepsis and cardiac medical requiring RN's to give additional fluids to patients or remove additional fluid while the patient is on CRRT.  We then have to create each element of the simulation for the techs to carry out during the simulation exercises, that is where we are right now.  There is a lot of detailed paperwork to fill out to make sure the sim runs exactly as we have envisioned it to run.  We have been meeting every week in the hopes of a run through on April 29th to find any bugs, then an additional run through in May with plans to go live in June.  This has been so exciting to be behind the scenes and create this simulation from scratch.  More to come on how it goes.

This weeks learning:

    This week I will be learning about mobile tools.  In our ever changing technology environment I look forward to this lesson.  I use my phone for many resources and used to use my IPad for a lot, when I had one.  I will let you know what I learn and share any interesting facts.