Journal Club for N504

Hi Everyone!

I am inviting you to post our discussion on the article that we will be presenting in our journal club project. I included the link to our article and if you have any other suggestion, you can do so. Also, I am posting the powerpoint presentation. Please let us know what you think. I am looking forward to our collaborative participation and the success of our project. Thank you.

Mary Jane

Final Seminar Topic

I am geared in creating a commnunity e-learners of nurse educators who can make a difference in improving the teaching strategies in the classroom. We are so used in using the powerpoint presentations and we almost doesn't have any other ways to stimulate the learning processes of our students or should I say staff nurses that comes to the mandatory in-services or classes. In this way also, we can collaborate as a whole in developing our topics for presentation. Either I will concentrate in using Wiki as the technology to use or the google group. I will take time also to look for articles concerning the use of technolgy in nursing. Hopefully I will find more ideas on how to go on with my project.

A Brief Book Review

A Brief Review of Chapter 4: Wikis: Easy Collaboration fro All by: Mary Jane de LeonIntroductionThe book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web tools for classrooms, as a whole is a concise and easy to read reference for some of the digital technologies out there that can be used in the classroom teaching as a means to effectively communicate and involved the students in their learning. The "faculty-centered" learning style or even the "student-centered" learning style is all but history now. The web opens all the endless possibilities and one can only imagine what is going to be like in the future with these fast advancing technology. As it was said in chapter 9 of the book, "What it All Means", we created a "share drive" that anybody can log-in, use it, and collaboratively improving it to the limitless possibility.Chapter 4 Wikis: Easy Collaboration for AllThis particular chapter of the book is very interesting to me. I have use the Wikipedia as one of my references when searching in the web but I never knew that it was a collaborative effort of not one author but maybe thousands or even millions of authors. Richardson (2006) quoted the Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, who said that the goal of Wikipedia is to "give to every single person in the planet the free access to the sum of all human knowledge" (Wales, 2004 as cited by Richardson, 2006). This is a powerful statement that can drive anyone to the spectrum of awe and admiration to pessimism and skepticism. How can you possibly gather the sum of all human knowledge in one place and will be available right at your fingertips? That is impossible until the web came along.This chapter talks about how the wiki works, which is basically edit and save function. One important feature is the page history that gives you the information of when the changes was made, whom, and what was the changes. One pertinent issue that was raised by the author was the copyright or the intellectual propriety since there are multiple authors in one entry. My opinion is the same as the others, producing a quality collectively gathered product is more important that owning it. The author enumerated some challenges in schools when using wiki in the classroom teaching. They are the following: 1) "it might be wrong"; 2) what sources to trust; 3) wiki should not be the sole resource; 4) do you have to repeat the work that is already done?; 5) how can you encourage students to contribute? These are all true and needed to address when using wiki in the classroom as a teaching and learning strategy. Reference:Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA. Corwin Press,

Welcome to Jane's Blog!

Hi All!

Thanks for visiting my blog site. I am excited to post the things I have learned in EDIT 490 class. I am not a computer geek and I know not much about the computer technology. That is why I enrolled in this class to know more. I am looking forward to chat to most of you.