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The Internet Scavenger Hunt: Can this Versatile Tool Enhance Your Online Course ? SSCEL Conference 2006

Anne Moshtael, MSN, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing Macon State College Sherry Sims, MSN, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing Macon State College. The Internet Scavenger Hunt: Can this Versatile Tool Enhance Your Online Course ? SSCEL Conference 2006.

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The Internet Scavenger Hunt: Can this Versatile Tool Enhance Your Online Course ? SSCEL Conference 2006

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  1. Anne Moshtael, MSN, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing Macon State College Sherry Sims, MSN, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing Macon State College The Internet Scavenger Hunt: Can this Versatile Tool Enhance Your Online Course?SSCEL Conference 2006

  2. Internet Scavenger Hunts –A “Fun” Way to Learn Online Purposes today are to share Learning Benefits of Internet Scavenger Hunts (ISH’s) Samples of Internet Scavenger Hunts Show you some simple steps and resources for you to build an Internet Scavenger Hunt for your course Welcome!

  3. Objectives: • The learner will: • examine ways in which the ISH creatively supports learning objectives. • describe components of the internet scavenger hunt. • design an ISH as a tool for use in a course.

  4. Benefits of Internet Scavenger Hunts • Internet scavenger hunts: a way for students to • Practice problem solving • Improve their reading and comprehension skills • Learn how to search the Internet • Many, many more benefits! • http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml

  5. Examples of ISH’s • Used in Nursing 1000 Summer 2006 MSC • Objectives for course included enhancing students’ internet and technology skills • Hunt required students to go to websites • Find and retrieve information • Create a new document • Send the document as an e-mail attachment

  6. Internet Scavenger Hunt Nursing 1000 Enrichment for Nursing

  7. 1.Visit this Nursing Fun Website • Find a joke about nurses or nursing on the website • Copy and paste the joke onto your Word document

  8. 2. Visit the “Death Clock” Website • Do the exercise on the “Death Clock” • Tell me in your Word Document when the “Death Clock” says you will die • Tell me if this experience has made you think of anything you can do to improve your health

  9. 3. Visit the National Library of Medicine Website • On the home page, find an article which reports a new finding in health news. • Write a brief summary – 2 sentences – of the article in your own words.

  10. 4. Visit the National Women’s Health Information Center Webpage • Search the website to see if the webpage has any information about STRESS and Women • Read one of the articles you find and tell me one thing you learned.

  11. 5. Visit the National Library of Medicine’s Interactive Health Tutorials Page • Find a tutorial on a subject you are interested in. • Tell me one thing you learned in the tutorial.

  12. Student Feedback on ISH: • Excited to be learning new Internet/technology skills • More confident in technology skills • Went on to learn and create PowerPoint presentations – also a new skill!

  13. Example #2: Women’s Health Internet Scavenger Hunt • Used Summer ’06 in Online and F2F courses • Women’s Health ISH

  14. How to Build a “Hunt” Decide on your goals for the activity Having clear goals will help you in designing the scavenger hunt. Visit Brett Bixler’s Website http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/Objectives/index.htm for ideas on writing clear educational objectives

  15. Decide: • If you are going to send the students to specific websites to find the information • Or if you want to state what type of information you want students to find. • In this second case, you may state the question, as this Generic ISH used in 1995 !

  16. Simple or Complex? • Decide on simple or complex • Simple hunts may ask for specific objective answers. • Complex hunts might include discussion questions with more critical thinking or analysis required.

  17. Evaluation method: • Decide on the evaluation method for the hunt • A simple objective test • Or a more complex rubric for discussion questions. Rubric websites: http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/Rubrics/DiscRub.htm

  18. Internet Scavenger Hunt Resources • Education World’s webpage • http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtml • MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Mediahttp://www.merlot.org/ • Internet Hunt Activities-Cindy O'Horahttp://homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.html • National Library of Medicine MEDLINEplus.gov – health information resource and interactive tutorials

  19. What Questions do you Have???

  20. Now you are ready to design yourScavenger Hunt.

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