Two online activities that I would like to implement with nursing students are role-play and blogging. Role-play also will benefit students in the medical terminology course that I teach. The benefit of role-play is that it is constructivist in nature, provides practice for students before they have to interact with real patients, projects realism, and enhances self-awareness.

What I understand from reading the literature on role-play in the online environment is that it can be web-based with a simulated environment or it can be a patient care-related case study in which students provide care to a patient using technology via voice thread. I plan to further investigate these options.

Blogging is an activity that I will absolutely use with nursing students. Almost on a daily basis there is evidence in the literature of what worked well in the practice in caring for patients that needs to be shared with others. Accordingly, blogging is the perfect venue to do this. On the other hand, I am still reflecting on how blogging might contribute to the learning environment in the medical terminology course.