March 11, 2009
Today, Dr. Arnold continued her lecture on electronic fetal monitoring. She takes a very visual and hands on approach to her lectures. She discourages the students to concentrate on filling in the blanks in their notes and encourages them to listen and visualize the concepts. Her slides are basic with a white background and black print, but she adds a lot of detailed pictures. She also included a lot of critical thinking concepts in this lecture. The basics on how to interpret strips were taught and then the students had to link what interventions were appropriate to varying interpretations. Now we are talking nursing!
I took the opportunity to sit in the overflow room just to get a different experience. The room was dark for the students to see the screen and it was noisy with the students talking. Students would walk in and out making it distracting and some students were sleeping. You could not hear when students asked questions because they were not microphoned. Overall, I would say that this is not an environment that is conducive to learning. I am not sure why some students choose to sit in this room when there are available seats in the main room. I would be interested to see the differences in the students' grades between those who sit in different rooms.
Dr. Arnold and I met after class to review my midterm evaluation. I took this time to share goals that I felt like I had met and the ones that I need more opportunities to meet. I did not get the opportunity to participate in exam analysis for the first exam because I was lecturing so I will get this opportunity for the next exam. I am also planning to lead a post conference in a couple weeks. I will continue to lead the students in the different clinical areas across woman's and children's services. The course faculty do not have scheduled meetings, but I am going to have the opportunity to participate in a faculty meeting at the university level. I am going to have more opportunities to grade care plans and assessments. Sounds like I have exciting days ahead as the semester continues on!
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteI think I would enjoy that lecture style. It seems that pictures are worth a thousand words. I am glad to see that your preceptor added them in. I also added some pictures into my Power Point presentations. I just tried to make sure that they weren't too graphic. I also think that going over nursing interventions at the same time as the disease process or interpretation material works great. It helps the students to put things together.
Thanks for sharing!
Sue
Intersting info about the overflow room. But, why do they have it and what exactly is it?
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ReplyDeleteI too have sat in the overflow room to see what's going on. I experienced students talking, students on their cell phones, many students texting, and not much focus on the lecture. Most of the students packed up and left for the day 30 minutes before the scheduled finish time. Should the number of students be limited to fit the lecture rooms or should students be mature enough to listen?
Thanks for your observations.
Donna
Danielle,
ReplyDeleteThe overflow room is a room across the hall from the actual lecture room. The lecture room is not large enough to fit all 120 students so some students have to sit in overflow. The problem is that many irresponsible students choose to sit there. The fact of the matter is that at the end of the day, the student is the one that suffers. The faculty are presenting the information and it is the students choice to listen.
Jackie
How is the lecture shown in this overflow room? Televised?
ReplyDeleteYes, basically there is a camera that is linked to the room across the hall. I think it is crazy though because it doesn't record. It will only play as the lecture is taking place. You can't view it later.
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