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| Dean Deogracia Valderama speaking about The Pathway to Quality Education. |
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| Mr. Jun Formosa, RN of UP-PGH discussing the Course Syllabus for Nursing Informatics. |
Last June of this year, I attended a seminar on Nursing Informatics in UP Diliman. This is a NEW course in the NEW Nursing Curriculum. Prior to this "obligation", I was told by my Dean to make a prototype Course Syllabus of the said course a year before the implementation of the subject for the school year. She even gave me the book Essentials of Nursing Informatics as a gift during my Graduate Studies graduation (talking about conspiracy!).
Anyway, the seminar-workshop talked about incorporating information technology in the profession of Nursing. Since I am in the academe, this is very significant in the students' learning process. I can say that I have moderate knowledge in computers and my skills are well, quite tolerable (my students are even more techie than me). I use power point presentations in my lectures and utilize several applications and sites in the delivery of my lessons since students now a days are very visual. They learn much on seeing things, much more on moving objects, than reading a very lengthy discussion on subject matters that sometimes takes away their enthusiasm.
Lately, I learned to make online tests and encouraged my students to participate on this as their review for the Finals examination. Another techie achievement for me is I opened a website for my classes - my virtual classroom. I started constructing this last September but due to some other tasks, I have not updated it much. Last night, I really took time to enhance and make it student-friendly for my students. I am hoping that this will be more functional by the opening of the Second Semester.
Technology can sometimes be scary because every thing changes in just a matter of days. But the only way to handle this change is to adapt and learn the essentials.
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