Week 2 Blog

The online resoure that I chose, http://www.merlot.org/merlot/ is a site which has extensive resources to improve online and face to face education through active learning strategies.  There are multi-media modules, and other resources to help add variety and student interaction to online sites or classroom presentations.  I have also used the resources to have students create patient education materials to use in the clinical setting, or presentations to share with their classmates.  This and other resources will make a permanent change in the way I teach by providing stratefies and materials that bring the student into the presentation through engaging resources and through the students involvement in developing resources to tech others.  The following link to a video from the CDC was accessed by students in a gerontology course this march to create information for families about influenza.  http://www.cdc.gov/flu/freeresources/video/flu-symptoms.htm

This information was used to teach families about influenza signs and symptoms so that they would not visit their elderly relatives and infect them if they were presenting with these symptoms.  The students enjoyed being able to use these sorts of resoources to teach patients and families.  This project helped the students to identify which materials engaged their audience and which materials they learn from best.