ISTE Standards – Lisa Tymoski

October 14, 2019October 18, 2020

Leader Resource Evaluation

Lynda.com is an educational website that provides users with videos to help learn new skills, primarily in the area of technology, graphics and business. Some videos come with exercises that you can do along with the video for hands-on experience. You can select different tracks to learn a specific skill or body of knowledge.

I would rate this website a 7 on a 1-10 scale. The lack of interaction with a facilitator and the simplicity of most of the exercises make it hard to really retain most of the information you view. While the instructors are engaging and the videos are well made, the subject matter really does require more practice to become competent. I have taken a number of courses on Lynda.com and they are very helpful when learning a new skill. It’s just hard to remember all the material that is covered.

It’s an excellent option for workforce training since many of the tracks teach how to use common business software. Many companies have licenses for Lynda.com or your local public library may have some available on their eLearning site. The lessons can be completed in a short enough time-frame to be useful on the job site. The learner can view the short course and quickly put that knowledge to use on a project.

Lynda.com meets the ISTE standards for a leader by empowering learners to take charge of their training and create a menu of education based on their needs and interests. The online aspect of the courses allows a diverse audience to choose varied courses and review each video as many times as necessary to gain the desired skill. Lynda.com curates the information for the learner so he or she does not have to comb the internet for resources.

October 4, 2019October 18, 2020

Facilitator Resource Evaluation

Wakelet.com is a website that allows the user to save web content as well as text and images in an easy-to-use and graphically pleasing format. You can save bookmarked websites, videos, tweets and other content in collections. It’s a combination of a browser’s bookmarking feature and a library with the ability to add text and images to tell the story of why you are saving those sites. You can create collections to organize related items. You can keep your collection private or make it public and share it with others to collaborate on your chosen topic.

This site is amazing and I would give it a 10 on a 1-10 scale. It allows you to create a visually pleasing portfolio of information that you can share with a class or coworkers. You could use this instead of practice sheets or anytime you want to collate certain information for users. You can also use it for a productivity tool to keep all of your resources on a topic in one place.

This site aligns with the ISTE standard of facilitator by letting the learner explore content in a non-linear manner and decide what items to view, thus taking ownership of their learning. The users can easily navigate the platform, add web content or use it as a guide for outside problem solving, depending on the content the collection contains. It’s geared toward any school-age or older audience so could be effective both in a school or worksite.

September 11, 2019October 18, 2020

Learner Resource Evaluation – Auscultation on Physiopedia

Physiopedia is an educational website in the United Kingdom for physiotherapists (known as physical therapists in the United States). This evaluation covers the auscultation page (https://www.physio-pedia.com/Auscultation). Clinicians will auscultate, or listen to, the lungs and heart to perform an assessment of how well these systems are functioning.

I would rank this website a 9 on a 1-10 scale. It is full of practical information for the clinical student to learn how to do a proper assessment. As a registered nurse I understand that assessments are really the core of nursing practice. An effective respiratory assessment is especially important in pediatrics since most pediatric medical emergencies are respiratory in nature.

This website gives in-depth explanations of how to do a pulmonary and cardiac assessment as well as what normal versus abnormal heart and lungs sound like. This website could be used in nursing orientation as a condensed guide to assessments. It would be a useful repetition of what the new nurse learned in school and a good reminder for experienced nurses to be thorough in their assessments. I have used similar audio files as the ones linked on this website in my online courses when training nursing students on assessment documentation. The student clicks on an image of lungs and the audio file plays. He or she must then determine if this is a normal breath sound or an adventitious one.

The auscultation website aligns with the ISTE learner standard because it effectively uses technology (the internet) to disperse knowledge to people all over the world. The content is well organized and easy to read. It starts with smaller pieces and builds on the beginner’s knowledge to introduce more complex concepts. It is a very well-done website.