Learning Successes

• Socratic method - everyone urged to respond/participate
• Trusted teacher/process
• User-friendly Mac after DOS;  light went on; over threshold
• One slide of brain - integration
• DABDA - for grief counseling process; relevant to helping one person in need
• Expert who reassured her about difficult challenge [via Bb]
• Linking of new concept to application in own work setting
• Recognizing difficulty picking up SOME student problems online - need some face-to-face, esp. with respect to professionalization/ socialization of students
• Grad statistics course;  online multiple choice UNGRADED exams for self learning
• Online course in MS Access
• Kayaking in Alaska - learning skills by necessity, urgency
• Transition from years of F2F to TOTALLY online instruction
• Workshop about how to train learners
• Depended on sample programs in stat class more than instructor who couldn't speak English well
• Incorporated thinking, reading, writing, talking, ... from article to online
• Learning ORACLE & SASS (!!!!)  difficult and new - discovery, rewarding
• Self-taught PowerPoint - satisfaction from being among first to use
• Gets excited when learning new tech app (e.g., HotPotatoes);  when "needs to know"
• Summer Genetics inst. - Web-based course - burning personal desire/interest
• Online "Gas Man" program that helped understand
• Live model "standardized patient" demos - pelvic exams

Teaching Successes

• Physical assessment/diagnosis - watching "AHA!"
• Interviewing/counseling;  face-to-face; model show do
• Student role-playing;  physically moving about showing how insulin works
• Online statistical tests - responding to student questions via Bb discussion board ASYNCH over several hours [not several days]... ended with string of "I get it!" postings
• Plan with students to eliminate stress to patient when doing procedure
• Sensitive subject - approach using models, videos maintaining relaxed, practical attitude
• Large Phil. of Sci. course - using discussion board for individual postings better than one posting per small group
• Synch chat with professional group - got very interactive
• Teaching children piano - 5th grade student - linked practice to theory
• Inspired student nurses in classroom discussion/video to look beyond own experiences - students asked to work with her, still in touch!
• Wellness course - helping students realize value of their own health
• Addressing sensitivity in gerontology
• Helping students learn about journals ,  teaching in small bites
• Mixing indep activities, work with partner, then share in larger group online
• Teaching research =  seeing students experience the "AHA!" about difference between research and practice articles
• Teaching RN students to use new apps beyond what they already know
• Using new strategies to teach online (e.g, HotPotatoes)
• Students' "AHA" moments in response to her DESIRE to get the content across
• Use of simulation to nurse educators - using role modeling;  student response
• Blood gas presentation - gets rave reviews - EASY to use for students
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Thanks

• Dr. Pat Wall 7am Socratic method
• Dr. Bill Visa(sp)
• Macs
• Dr. Saleh
• 2 Oracle teachers
• High school math teacher