News archive

This page lists all news items published on this site, going back to April 2004, for posterity. In October 2006 a news database was adopted, replacing the prior system of 'static' web page articles.

2006
2005
2004

October 2006 - present day

New RLO: Stress Management for Healthcare Students on Clinical Placement (15-01-2016)
New RLO: Our Child (15-05-2014)
New RLO: Dying in Hospital (10-02-2014)
New RLO: Every Death is Different (10-02-2014)
New RLO: Subcutaneous injection sites (12-12-2011)
New RLO: BMI measurement (07-10-2011)
RLOs translated into Welsh (02-02-2011)
New RLO "Food Hygiene" (31-01-2011)
New RLO: Kinase linked receptors (22-12-2010)
New RLO: Subcutaneous injection techniques (08-12-2010)
New RLO: Action of drugs that target ion channels (03-12-2010)
New RLO: Action of drugs that target carriers (25-11-2010)
New publication (18-11-2010)
New RLO; Introduction to Metabolism (05-11-2010)
Hello my Name is Tom (02-09-2010)
New RLO: Components of a respiratory assessment (27-07-2010)
New RLO: How ligand-gated ion channel receptors communicate messages (28-06-2010)
New RLO: Skin preparation prior to intramuscular and subcutaneous injections (19-01-2010)
New RLO: Keeping physically active (12-11-2009)
New RLO: The role of G-proteins in receptor signalling (15-10-2009)
New RLO: Introduction to receptor pharmacology (08-10-2009)
New RLO: Targets for drug action (08-10-2009)
New RLO: Importance of Physical Activity (23-09-2009)
OUR 100th RLO released: Transmission of pain (12-06-2009)
New RLO released: Transduction of pain (12-06-2009)
New RLO released:Perception of pain (12-06-2009)
New RLO released: An introduction to nociception (12-06-2009)
New ULO released: Pain Pathways (12-06-2009)
New ULO released: Clinical skills - injections ULO (19-05-2009)
New RLO released: Intramuscular Injection sites for adults (19-05-2009)
New RLO released: Crossword - An Introduction to Receptor Pharmacology (05-05-2009)
New RLO released: Tissue Fluid Formation (03-04-2009)
New RLO released: This is Steve (03-04-2009)
New RLO released: Improving Your Practice (03-04-2009)
New RLO released: Planning for Improvement (03-04-2009)
New RLO released: Improving Care (03-04-2009)
First Umbrella learning Object (ULO) released: Importance of Drug Receptor Location (13-03-2009)
New RLO released: Clinical importance of receptor location within the cell (11-03-2009)
New RLO released: Intracellular receptor location to the speed of drug action (10-03-2009)
New RLO released: Importance of membrane bound receptors to the speed of drug action (09-03-2009)
New RLO released: Receptor location and the speed of drug action (06-03-2009)
New RLO - Intracellular and Extracellular Buffers (20-11-2008)
New RLO - Advanced literature searching (05-06-2008)
New RLO released: Structures of the Brain (07-05-2008)
SHOULD - Supporting health occupations understanding of learning/intellectual disabilities (28-04-2008)
Events of the Menstrual Cycle (11-03-2008)
Three new Referencing rlos released. (12-02-2008)
New RLO- Educational Journals (04-10-2007)
New RLO- Should Sarah smack her child? (03-10-2007)
New RLO: Solutions and Electrolytes (08-05-2007)
New RLO: Elements that make up the human body (15-03-2007)
New RLO: Structure of the atom (15-03-2007)
New RLO: Atomic Bonding (15-03-2007)
New RLO: Sensitivity and Specificity (02-02-2007)
New RLO: Positive and Negative Predictive Value of Diagnostic Tests (02-02-2007)

2006 (up to October)

New RLO: Glomerular Filtration Pressure (25/9/06)
Presentations at Cambridge University e-learning symposium (24/8/06)
New Media Developer joins the team (7/8/06)
SONET Bulletin No. 14 released (23/6/06)
SONET Bulletin No. 13 released (9/5/06)
New RLOs: Acids, Alkalis and Bases - Introduction and Application (19/4/06)
SONET Bulletin No. 12 released (29/3/06)
New RLO: Relative Risk Reduction and Absolute Risk Reduction (29/3/06)
New RLO: Surrogate Outcomes (27/3/06)
New RLO: Quantitative and Qualitative Research (6/2/06)
IS Learning Team e-Learning seminar to be held on Wed 25th January (18/1/06)
Learning Sciences Research Institute seminars (18/1/06)
New e-learning staff in the School (11/1/06)

2005

News items

New RLO: What are Journals? (22/12/05)
Heather Wharrad promoted to Reader (21/12/05)
New Chemistry RLOs (21/11/05):
- Atomic Bonding
- Elements that make up the human body
- Structure of the Atom
New RLO: Hand Hygiene (16/11/05)
New RLO: Cell Division (29/9/05)
TechDis releases Staff Packs on e-learning accessibility (29/9/05)
New RLO: Understanding Dyslexia: an Introduction (23/9/05)
New RLO: Using databases to find journal articles (22/9/05)
New RLO: Search strategy for locating Randomised Controlled Trials (22/9/05)
UCeL is holding a workshop on RLOs in Health Sciences and Practice on September 5th, in Manchester. (5/8/05)
Touchstone training courses at QMC (25/7/05)
New RLO: Probability associated with inferential statistics (6/7/05)
Forthcoming Netskills e-learning workshops at Nottingham (31/5/05)
New RLO: Descriptive Statistics for interval and ratio data (26/5/05)
New RLO: Concentration Gradients (20/5/05)
New UCEL RLOs released: "Sensitivity & Specificity", and "Stigma attached to STIs and condom use in the UK" (17/5/05)
HEFCE publishes e-learning strategy for the next decade (13/4/05)
New RLO: Calculating medicines for children (12/4/05)
School of Nursing awarded funding from Eduserv (24/3/05)
New RLOs: Drugs and the liver and kidneys (22/3/05)
New RLO: Respiratory ventilation: anatomy and mechanics (14/3/05)
E-Learning Clinics. The University Learning Team will be holding monthly drop-in 'clinics' for staff at the George Green Library. (10/3/05)
Nottingham to be part of new CETL in Reusable Learning Objects (1/2/05)
New RLO: Plasma Proteins and Drug Distribution (19/1/05)
Netskills Web Development workshops at Nottingham (7/1/05)
New RLO: Starling's Forces (5/1/05)
E-learning seminar, Nottingham, 19th Jan (5/1/05)

Site news

SONET Bulletin No. 10 released (21/11/05)
SONET Bulletin No. 9 released (29/9/05)
Cells Alive! added to Learning Resources (16/8/05)
SONET Bulletin No. 8 released (8/8/05)
Image repositories for e-Learning added to Resources (2/8/05)
SONET Bulletin No. 7 released (3/6/05)
Click & Go Video guide added to video resources page (26/5/05)
SONET Bulletin No. 6 released (20/5/05)
Added Viperlib (visual perception image library) to image sources (23/5/05)
Minutes of SONET meeting of 6th April online (20/5/05)
Learning resources updated (12/4/05)
SONET Bulletin No. 5 released (30/3/05)
School e-learning projects list extensively revised and updated (1/2/05)
SONET Bulletin No. 4 released (1/2/05)
SONET Bulletin No. 3 issued (5/1/05)

2004

News items

Medical Library sessions on searching electronic information sources (25/22/04)
Medical Library information awareness sessions, Nov '04 (10/11/04)
New RLOs: Liver anatomy and physiology (9/11/04)
ELSIE RLO workshop, QMC, 18th November (1/11/04)
New RLOs: Kidney Anatomy and Physiology (29/10/04)
Call for Papers: E-learning in Health & Social Care conference (18/10/04)
New RLO: Lock and Key Hypothesis (20/9/04)
New RLO: Diffusion & Osmosis (9/9/04)
University plans to move to WebCT as sole campus VLE (27/8/04)
New RLO: Drug-Receptor Interaction (19/8/04)
Joint Biological Science & Health Informatics Symposium (22/7/04)
Consultant Media Developers taken on (15/7/04)
e-Tutor of the Year 2004 (1/7/04)
Developing Study Skills RLOs (25/6/04)
Hands across the Border: collaborating with Stòr Cùram (25/6/04)
Get SONET news delivered to your desktop (25/6/04)

Site news

Minutes of December 1st SONET meeting online (7/12/04)
Visual media category added to navigation bar, subsuming Image and Video navigation items (29/11/04)
SONET Bulletin No. 2 issued (25/10/04)
Minutes of October 6th SONET meeting online (13/10/04)
Minutes of August 25th SONET meeting online (26/8/04)
Agenda for next SONET meeting online (19/8/04)
MERLOT repository added to Learning Resources (6/8/04)
Gateways section added to Resources (29/7/04)
Learning Resources section added, with Blood Pressure Tutorial and Wisconsin learning objects (27/7/04)
RLO on Drug-Receptor Interaction added to School RLO list (23/7/04)
RLO Repositories section added (22/7/04)
Web-enabled CAL packages added to list of campus CAL packages (15/7/04)
SoN RLO list updated (8/7/04 )
NeLH newsfeed added (8/7/04)
List of campus CAL packages updated (28/6/04)
Video Sources added to Resources for e-Learning (23/6/04)
New publications by SONET members added to Conference Papers and Books (9/6/04)
Links to site access reports added (7/6/04)
Videoactive workshop series added to External Events (3/6/04)
RLO FAQ added (28/5/04)
Added journals to Books & Journals page (28/5/04)
images.MD added to Image Resources page (25/5/04)
Minutes of latest SONET meeting on 7th May added (7/5/04)
Libraries for Nursing: "Lost in Translation: helping pre-registration students put theory into practice". 14th May, QMC - see Nottingham Events. (5/5/04)
Resources added: JISC Resource Guide for Health & Life Sciences (web resources), Lifesign moving image archive (image sources). (5/5/04)
External e-learning events added (4/5/04)
List of Computer-Aided Learning (CAL) applications for Nursing & Medicine available on the campus network added to the CAL section. (30/4/04)
More WWW resources and case studies added to Resources section. (30/4/04)
Two recent and informative e-learning survey reports added to the site (26/04/04):
- Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship Report
- E-learning and Nurse Education: Findings of a Travel Scholarship
RSS FAQ, more WWW resources and image sources, added to this site. (20/4/04)
WebCT resources added to this site. (16/4/04)
External newsfeeds added to this site. (15/4/04)