Technology in Education Websites Recommended by the SON Technology Committee

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

FreeNurseTutor: Created and maintained by RN Diane Yeager http://freenursetutor.com/
Includes a wide variety of topics of interest to nurses, instructors and students with the following mission: 1.)  Maintain the largest and best collection of interactive educational activities for nursing students in existence. 2.)  Provide a "one-stop" website for nursing instructors and nursing students with an extensive offering of high quality informational services, learning activities and educational materials.

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

Innovate: Journal of online education http://innovateonline.info/
Requires users to sign-up through a free and easy process

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.

Tropical Teachers www.tropicalteachers.com
Includes information, presentations and links from the CIT conference that Daneen attended.