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Shettigar, Divya
- Power Point Versus Chalk and Talk:Perception among Nursing Students an Exploratory Study
Authors
1 Dept of Community Health Nursing, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN
2 Dept of Child Health Nursing, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN
3 Dept of Medical Surgical Nursing, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 4, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 131-135Abstract
Introduction: The emerging technologies and the technological advances made day by day are changing the methods and techniques of teaching around us. The technique of teaching has seen drastic changes in the last decade with the new techniques available ranging from Power-point presentation to the video class rooms which converts the traditional class rooms to smart class rooms. Keeping this in mind the present study was planned to compare the two instructional aids.
Method: In this study cross sectional descriptive survey was used. Nursing students were selected through Non probability convenient sampling. The data was collected using questionnaire based survey about their views and perception of two methods of lecture delivery, viz: PPT presentation and using a chalkboard. For each of the two methods, the students were asked to rank nine comments on a four-point scale: strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree . The data was analysed using SPSS version 16 and the results expressed as proportions.
Results :In our study where more than 97% of our study respondents emphasized the value of chalk and talk and declared it as the more effective and useful teaching tool in their learning experience compared to PowerPoint (86%) and recommended it for teaching.
Conclusion: The study concluded that both chalk and talk as well as power point presentation are the effective instructional aids in nursing education and both can be used in combination for the effective delivery of classroom instructions.
Keywords
Chalk and Talk, PowerPoint, Perception, Nursing Students.
- Assessment of Knowledge on Ill Effects of Cellphones usage among Adolescents with a View to Develop Information Booklet:An urban Community Based Study
Authors
1 Department of Community Health Nursing, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN
2 Shree Devi College of Nursing, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN
3 Department of Community Health Nursing, Shree Devi College of Nursing, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN
4 Medical Surgical Nursing Department, Inscol Private Limited, Chandigarh, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 3, No 3 (2013), Pagination: 167-170Abstract
Introduction: Communication is essential in every area of life. Today, cell phone reception has improved greatly due to the use of satellites and wireless services. Although cell phones seems to be the ideal device for simplicity and connectedness, nothing is perfect. Adolescents are the age group those use cell phones most frequently for the various purposes such as to communication, text messaging, internet browsing, gaming and so on. They are the most risky group to get the ill effects of cell phones. So it is vital that adolescents should possess the knowledge on ill effects of cell phone to eliminate the dangers of excessive mobile phone use.
Method: This cross sectional descriptive survey was conducted to assess knowledge of adolescents residing at urban community area. Adolescents were selected through Non probability convenient sampling. The data was collected using a pretested structured questionnaire. The data was analysed using SPSS version 16 and the results were expressed as proportions.
Results: A total of 50 adolescents were included in the study. Analysis of the data revealed that 46% of adolescents had poor knowledge, 48% had average and 6% had good knowledge, none of the them possessed very good level of knowledge. With the level of knowledge of adolescents an information booklet was prepared and given to them. Association between demographic variables and the knowledge of adolescents was statistically tested by Chi square test and it was found that there is no significant association between knowledge of adolescents and the demographic variables.
Conclusion: A significant number of adolescents had poor knowledge on ill effects of cell phone usage. So researcher felt that various awareness programmes regarding ill effects of cell phone usage should be emphasized.