Technology in Education Websites Recommended by the SON Technology Committee

Assisted Learning for All:  http://www.saddleback.edu/alfa/
Provides easy access to real-life nursing procedures and step by step directions with photos and videos.

Atomic Learning www.atomiclearning.com
Subscription based provider of 110+ software training tutorials. Can sample some for free.

Educause: Emerging technologies and practices
http://www.educause.edu/EmergingTechnologiesandPractices/5673 One section of the vast EDUCAUSE website focusing on using technology in education

Evolve Learning System: https://evolve.elsevier.com/staticPages/index.html
Provides interactive learning experiences related to textbook readings and lessons.

FreeNurse Tutor: http://freenursetutor.com/
Create customized online learning activities for your courses.

Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/
"For a fact-based world view," including statistics relating to health and healthcare

HEAL http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp Health Education Assets Library: National Digital Library
Free, high quality, digital materials for health services education. Searchable by collection and subject.

Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ From Half-Baked Software
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web

Illinois Nurse Aide Testing: http://www.nurseaidetesting.com/siu/
Performance skills videos for evaluating Certified Nurse Aide training.

Laerdol: Simulation User Network http://simulation.laerdal.com/
Includes meetings and conferences, downloads, products, tutorials, discussion forums and much more for simulation users.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm
Searchable by Health Sciences collection and keyword. Membership is free.

Puzzlemaker: Discovery Education http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Application that creates a variety of puzzle formats from your own word list for free. Useful for Blackboard and other online learning.

The Point: http://thepointeedition.lww.com/pt/re/thepoint/home.htm
Provides interactive learning experiences related to textbook readings and lessons.