Friday, June 13, 2014

Web 2.0 tool review - Creativity

I reviewed a Web 2.0 tool called Animoto.  The URL for this tool is www.animoto.com.
My podcast review can be accessed at


The video that I created with this tool can be accessed at




Thursday, June 5, 2014

I reviewed Vimeo.com for my Web 2.0 Tool Review.

I created a VoiceThread podcast to present this review.  It can be accessed at the following:

https://voicethread.com/share/5831929/


I found it very challenging to figure out how to create this podcast, and I'm very happy to have finally succeeded.


Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Introducing myself

My name is Marlene Wark, and I am a Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.  I am somewhat technology challenged, so pursuing a degree in Education for Healthcare Professionals is blasting me out of my complacency and into the 21st century.

I was born and raised in Houston, and I have never lived anywhere else.  I have been married to my husband, Pat, for 25 years, and I have two children.  Valerie is 22 and Christopher is 20.  I am working as a lactation consultant in a clinic called The Lactation Foundation, which is the breastfeeding support center for WIC in Houston.  I spent most of my working years in hospitals, taking care of mothers and babies throughout the labor, birth and post-partum experience.  I developed a passion for breastfeeding, and I have been working in that area for about 19 of my 27 years as a nurse.  I believe that one of my best credentials is having two children that never, ever tasted formula.

In my current job, I not only teach mothers and babies how to breastfeed, but I also teach WIC staff, nurses and medical residents about breastfeeding when they rotate through our clinic.  I want to be a more effective educator, so I hope that completing this Master's program will help me achieve that.  I also have some hope that this may lead me into a PhD program which would enable me to teach in a nursing school to finish out my career.