Technology in the Classroom?

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Permalink Reply by Jan Schwartz on February 28, 2012 at 10:30am

I teach business in an acupuncture school and we use Google docs to co-create a business plan for a clinic.  The students work on it in class and at home.

Permalink Reply by Sandy Fritz on February 28, 2012 at 10:37am

I use the online courses the publishers provided for Mosby's Essential Sciences for Massage Therapy, and Pathology for Massage by Susan Salvo.  I assign students to look up research on pubmed  and report to the class.   We visit other massage experts web sites.  We also use discussion boards, 

Permalink Reply by Daniel Cohen on February 28, 2012 at 10:56am

Jan that sounds very good. The worse classes I have seen in massage schools that actually hurt students ability to run business have been the business classes. Myths abound, regulations are not understood (even teaching laws that don't exist just assumed), even districts (local, county, state) are confused. Sounds like this type of exercise might help. Could you set up and market a lesson plan? Even in this site many teachers state regulatory and business plan information that can not be cited as it is only assumption.

Jan Schwartz said:

I teach business in an acupuncture school and we use Google docs to co-create a business plan for a clinic.  The students work on it in class and at home.

Permalink Reply by Dr Ben Benjamin on February 28, 2012 at 11:30am

In an effort to make education more accessible and affordable, I have been turning all my workshops and those of  colleagues into webinars and online courses.  Here is a new article that speaks to online education in the massage industry: http://massagebodywork.idigitaledition.com/issues/23/Page111/

Permalink Reply by Dror on February 28, 2012 at 4:22pm

Actually, I have taken this a step forward and I have created a Virtual Campus website to my massage school in London, UK. We use a huge amount of videos in the classroom. The Virtual campus has the forum, course content, videos, and photos. from all of these I would highly recommend the use of video camera in class. 

http://bodyologymassagecourses.co.uk/forum/

Permalink Reply by Charlene Gaffney on February 29, 2012 at 4:14pm

I love you tube. When I have some extra time after planning a lesson (especially a science lesson) I will go to you tube and find a video to explain one or two of the most challenging or most important topics. The students also are required to do several presentations throughout the program, and they do a great job using the internet to locate picture of skin disorders and major muscle groups. 

I also have a jeopardy power point that we use for test reviews!!!

Permalink Reply by Charlene Gaffney on February 29, 2012 at 4:16pm

I love these Sandy. Thanks so much! We also research on pubmed!

Sandy Fritz said:

I use the online courses the publishers provided for Mosby's Essential Sciences for Massage Therapy, and Pathology for Massage by Susan Salvo.  I assign students to look up research on pubmed  and report to the class.   We visit other massage experts web sites.  We also use discussion boards, 

Permalink Reply by Susan G. Salvo on April 5, 2012 at 11:14am

We require students to build their own websites using www.wix.com.

Before submission, we critique them in class (evaluation,creation level of Bloom's Taxonomy)