The Internet Scavenger Hunt: Can this Versatile Tool Enhance Your Online Course SSCEL Conference 200

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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

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Welcome!

• Internet Scavenger Hunts A Fun Way to Learn
  Online
• Purposes today are to share
• Learning Benefits of Internet Scavenger Hunts
  (ISHs)
• Samples of Internet Scavenger Hunts
• Show you some simple steps and resources for you
  to build an Internet Scavenger Hunt for your
  course

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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.

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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.shtm
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Examples of ISHs

• 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

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Internet Scavenger Hunt

• Nursing 1000
• Enrichment for Nursing

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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

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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

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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.

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4. Visit the National Womens 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.

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5. Visit the National Library of Medicines
Interactive Health Tutorials Page

• Find a tutorial on a subject you are interested
  in.
• Tell me one thing you learned in the tutorial.

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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!

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Example 2 Womens Health Internet Scavenger
Hunt

• Used Summer 06 in Online and F2F courses
• Womens Health ISH

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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 Bixlers Website http//www.personal.p
  su.edu/bxb11/Objectives/index.htm for ideas on
  writing clear educational objectives

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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 !

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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.

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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.k1
  2.ct.us/jwb/Rubrics/DiscRub.htm

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Internet Scavenger Hunt Resources

• Education Worlds webpage
• http//www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr113.shtm
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• MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for
  Learning and Online Media http//www.merlot.org/
• Internet Hunt Activities-Cindy O'Hora
  http//homepage.mac.com/cohora/ext/internethunts.h
  tml
• National Library of Medicine MEDLINEplus.gov
  health information resource and interactive
  tutorials

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What Questions do you Have???
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Now you are ready to design your Scavenger
Hunt.