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

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.