Nursing Education

If you are using Zoom to record your classes or meetings, you may want to record the meeting for participants to view at a later time. The handout below shows how to record the Zoom meeting to your computer and how to upload that recording to Kaltura streaming playback in Blackboard.

We are all using different technologies to connect with our classes during this time. Some folks are using asynchronous technologies such as VoiceThread and Kaltura, while others are using synchronous technologies like Collaborate or Zoom. The good news is that the folks at Technology Services have installed a tool in Blackboard that would allow you […]

There are a number of different apps that are available to nursing students for free. The video below demonstrates AHRQ’s ePSS, Clinical Key, UpToDate, and Epocrates. App Demo I created the video above using my iPhone and Quicktime Player. See this YouTube from sakitech on how to do it.

Respondus Lockdown Browser (RLB) is tool that you can use with your students so that when they are taking a test in Blackboard they will be unable to open new windows or connect to the Internet with a different application. First they will need to install the application. A Google search for “VCU Respondus Lockdown […]

VoiceThread is a lot of fun for students. It is a great tool to build community when you have students introduce themselves using video at the beginning of the semester.  It is also fun to use VoiceThread in lieu of the standard written discussion board. One technique that you may not have considered is the […]

Yesterday we had the SON Greatest Hits in Teaching and Lyons Hardy shared a great Blackboard tip for embedding content into your Blackboard course using the HTML button. Below is a link to a Kaltura video that Lyons made to demonstrate the process: How to embed videos into Blackboard Thanks to all who attended the […]

In April, Dr. Lana Sargent and other educators from Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing presented a de-prescribing workshop at the Virginia Geriatric Society Conference as part of a $10,000 grant award from the Geriatric Training and Education Initiative (GTE). Dr. Sargent approached SON IT with a rough sketch of an animation that she hoped to incorporate […]

At Friday’s Teaching Academy session, we had a lively discussion on using video in your course.  There are a few VCU resources that may be of tremendous help to you as you are planning to add video content.  They are: VCU Kanopy Streaming – a resource from VCU Libraries which gives you access to thousands of […]

Ph.D. nursing student, Michele Olson Pancoast, created some JMP tutorial videos using VCU’s Kaltura software to show some tips she discovered while doing her stats homework.  Thank you, Michele!

There are so many ways for students to create multimedia assignments that deciding what to have them use can be overwhelming.  View the video below for an overview of 3 free options:  Kaltura, VoiceThread and Adobe Spark. Created by SON IT using Adobe Spark Video