m-Learning / iPad Integration Plan


MHT 216: Mental Health and Aging

Below you will find information related to the integration of the iPad into the curriculum and expectations of this course. Resources and supports for the iPad are available through the iPad Supports page and your Instructor.

  m-Learning / iPad Integration

iTunes U

The MHT m-Learning Initative course in iTunes U contains general iPad tutorials and apps that you will use through the entire program.

For each course in the program there is a corresponding course in iTunes U that contains specific resources, apps, and tutorials that are going to be used in that class.

  • There is an iTunes U course that has been created to support this class.
  • Click HERE to download the iTunes U app (if you have not done so already).
  • Click HERE to add the iTunes U "MHT m-Learning Initiative" course to your iTunes U.
  • Click HERE to add the iTunes U "MHT 216: Mental Health and Aging" course to your iTunes U.

Remember, the links to the iTunes U courses will only work if you are accessing this on an iPad.

Materials

This section will contain information related to any eBooks or other generic materials for the course. Many courses will have materials specific to Lessons...links to those materials will be found in the Lesson Plans themselves.

REQUIRED:

Vaillant, G.E. (2002). Aging Well: Guideposts to a Happier Life. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Additional readings may be from some of the following texts. Your instructor will inform you how to access the selected chapters or sections:

Bowles, D. (2011). Gerontology Nursing Case Studies: 100 Narratives for Learning. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Miranda, M. R., & Markides, K. S. (1997). Minorities, Aging and Health. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. (Part IV - Mental Health, Ch. 11 & 12).

Baldwin, R. C. (2010). Depression in Later Life. Oxford: OUP Oxford.

Cattan, M. (2009). Mental Health and Well-being in Later Life. Maidenhead, UK: McGraw-Hill Education.

Classroom

General Face-to-Face App Integration

Lesson 2

Ancestry

Lesson 7 Develop Your Resilience
Lesson 8 Colorfy, Elevate, MindGames and Word Search +
Lesson 11 Mental Illness: Facts about Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, etc.
Lesson 13 Alzheimer's Association Caregiver Buddy
Lesson 20 Keynote, PowerPoint, iMovie & YouTube