Pediatric Educational Technology

Pedi.edtech was a faculty development program about technology applications for education in the UTMB Department of Pediatrics from 2013-2018.
Pedi.edtech was funded by a grant from the US Dept. Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration.

Participating team members were:
Virginia Niebuhr PhD, Project Director
Patricia S. Beach MD, Associate Project Director
Mary Jo Urbani MS, Systems Analyst/Educational Technologist
Ann Rudnicki EdD, Project Evaluator
Project Team Members: Keith Bly MD, Schelli Slocomb Gondesen, Bruce Niebuhr PhD, Mark Wolffarth MD

Project focus areas covered are descibed in the tabs below:

Instructional Technology

It is our goal to help our Pediatric faculty develop new skills and best practices in a variety of areas for instructional technology.

Audience Response Systems (ARS)An ARS allows the audience to participate in a presentation by answering questions with smart phones, tablets or PCs. UTMB uses a system called

Poll Everywhere

Click here for a 2 minute demo
Poll Everywhere Toolbox
Here you can find installation instructions, webinars, tutorials, a UTMB quick start guide and other information to help you get started engaging your students or audiences.

eLearning Instructional Materials Learning which uses electronic media, such as interactive web-pages, multi-media and eBoooks, often on the internet.

ELearning Toolbox
a toolbox of tutorials and information guides or creating online instructional materials

Instructional Design for eLearning Materials

Softchalk

Software for Creating eLearning Materials

Strategies for Blended Learning

Video in the Online Environment

and more

Exam and Survey Software

Respondus Exam Software
a tool for creating and managing exams, or anonymous surveys, that can be published directly to Blackboard

Mobile Apps for Teaching

Mobile Apps
Find tips and tricks for your mobile device along with apps specific for Pediatrics and Pediatric learners.

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Technology Guidelines for Presenting in Pedi Grand Rounds

Posters

Poster Toolbox

PowerPoint

PowerPoint Toolbox
a toolbox of tutorials on all the big and little things you can do with PowerPoint, from creating slide masters to embedding audience response slides in your presentation

UTMB Logo:

UTMB new Logo ==> Right click and Save Image as (wherever you like)

Video-conferencing for Teaching

Lync/Skype for Business Toolbox
for video-conferencing 1:1, small groups or Webinar; includes desktop sharing

YouTube for Teaching

Youtube Toolbox

Searching & Information Management

It is our goal to help our Pediatric faculty sharpen their skills for searching and managing information.

Direct Export from PubMed - from EndNote Training

EndNote Basic - from UTMB Moody Medical Library

Managing References with EndNote - from EndNote Training

Searching Published Literature

Apps for Literature Searches
Add 'Find it @ UTMB' to your Google Search
Finding Answers to Searchable Questions -from UTMB Moody Medical Library
Searching Tips - from UTMB Moody Medical Library

Teaching about Electronic Health Records (EHR)

It is our goal to help Pediatric faculty improve skills for teaching learners about the EHR,
for teaching learners with the EHR, and using the EHR as a research tool.

Remote Access to Epic

Remote Access to Epic using your Mobile iOS Device
Remote Access to Epic using your MAC OS

Pediatric Coding Series
a series of presentations on optimizing coding and billing in different pediatric settings

Pedi Specific Epic Tutorials
These are video tutorials, requiring a log-in with UTMB credentials because of Epic copyright.

Technology for Personal Efficiency

It is our goal to help faculty identify their personal needs, and learn new tools to add efficiency to their work as academicians and clinical educators.