Norman Belleza

Thanks for visiting. I am a PT and Assistant Professor at the University of St. Augustine in CA and pursing my PhD in Education with interest in simulation.

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@lightninglegs11 Totally agree. Kona entertains us everyday. Love him to pieces.

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

Awwww sending loves to Big Poppa ❤️. Bulldogs are so expressive and loving and I can’t wait to when he can reunite with all the kids and furry playmates. 🙏🏽 And hugs for our little buddy! 😘

[Rae Elle @RaeElle]

Big Poppa has been so sad today, I think he miss playing with the kids in the building. He just watches them from the patio

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

As part of my global network project, I am happy to share my work on The Global Interprofessional Collaboration for Healthcare Providers Using Simulation. #vreducationinnovation

https://t.co/qnN9CtUimU

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@arginesafari @BadyJeffery @JessDennis77 @antounjumana @CJKrapohl @nancella @WaldenU Thank you for your response Argine and for adding to the conversation and sharing more resources. Looking forward to learning more from our learning community.

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@arginesafari @BadyJeffery @JessDennis77 @antounjumana @CJKrapohl @CJKrapohl @nancella I tweeted an article that I found interesting and was excited to share. We are piloting with Mursion and Walden uses as well. Let me know your thoughts, thanks!
https://t.co/7zXVNMGvVZ

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

Excited to share a link with you all! We are piloting with Mursion and Walden is using Mursion as well. Bridging the gap from class to real-world. Imagine practicing with virtual avatars before treating patients/teaching students. https://t.co/oma6TdJYs1 #innovationandsimulation

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@BadyJeffery Thank you @BadyJeffery, this helps with resource management as well. It is difficult to get live patient actors or actual real-world face-to-face classroom environments. VR helps bridge the gap giving students real-world skills and get an idea and feeling of how it feels.

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

Excited to share a link with you all! We are piloting with Mursion and Walden is using Mursion as well. Bridging the gap from class to real-world. Imagine practicing with virtual avatars before treating patients/teaching students. https://t.co/oma6TdJYs1 #innovationandsimulation

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

Thank you @AbbyMokhtari for sharing this link. I found this to be well done and informative.
https://t.co/zc7ex2etoj

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@AbbyMokhtari Thank you @AbbyMokhtari for your response and support. I'm sure that I'll be reporting on our work in this project and use of Mursion as tie goes on. Wish us luck.

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@CJKrapohl What a great idea @CJKrapohl. Maybe the builders of the program can have an animation that demonstrates that actual behavior. We constantly are fighting that battle in our classes, or I sit in the back during a presentation and find students surfing the web. :-/

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@arginesafari @BadyJeffery @JessDennis77 @antounjumana @CJKrapohl @nancella @WaldenU Thanks for the response @arginesafari. We have started to use the virtual avatars and during our pilot, it was interesting to see the avatars were able to animate expression based on the dialog. When the character portrayed reluctance or fear, the avatar seemed to show this too.

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@AbbyMokhtari Hello Abby and thank you for including this video clip. I could not agree more, any efforts in the classroom are thwarted without the involvement of parents, family, communities, and homes. There is tremendous truth in the old adage that "it takes a village." #ItTakesAVillage

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@JessDennis77 @CJKrapohl @arginesafari @AbbyMokhtari @antounjumana @BadyJeffery Thanks @JessDennis77, powerful words from a friend who conducted my on-site accreditation visit when I was a founding Program Director for a Physical Therapist Assistant program a few years ago!

[Argine Safari @arginesafari]

@JessDennis77 @BadyJeffery @CJKrapohl @bellnor757 @nancella @AbbyMokhtari According to research, the implicit prejudiced attitudes of teachers negatively affect the differences between ethnic achievement gap sizes across classrooms through teacher expectations (Van den Bergh et al., 2010). This conversation is powerful. https://t.co/gA75479GFf

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@CJKrapohl @JessDennis77 @arginesafari @AbbyMokhtari @antounjumana @BadyJeffery Hi Cheryl, @antounjumana, and myself could not open link but would like to see what you found and the TED talk to contribute in the conversation.

[Cheryl Krapohl, Ph. D. @CJKrapohl]

One item listed is opportunities for innovation. When we think of innovative curriculum we think of what teachers do. But how are we allowing our students to be innovative? @JessDennis77 @bellnor757 @arginesafari @AbbyMokhtari @antounjumana @BadyJeffery https://t.co/Hgurgdkttw

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@arginesafari @jackiegerstein @JessDennis77 @nancella @CJKrapohl @AbbyMokhtari Thank you and powerful take-home messages that resonated with me from @jackiegerstein, what I do, and when I do, I learn. Also, most important social skill for the modern world is learning about the process of learning.

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

@CJKrapohl @JessDennis77 @BadyJeffery @arginesafari @nancella @AbbyMokhtari Definitely relevant and almost exactly in line with @arginesafari. We must be vigilant and self-reflect and be self-aware of our implicit bias as we can be the very obstacles to student success and not the advocate for their learning.

[Education Week @educationweek]

Why teachers must fight their own implicit biases: https://t.co/A6VOCiB6du #ewopinion

[Norman Belleza @bellnor757]

Thank you for sharing this most timely discussion in this topic. I really like the suggestion that teachers have more self-awareness of possible biases and prejudices. We must be better educators, self-reflection is key.

[Argine Safari @arginesafari]

@JessDennis77 @BadyJeffery @CJKrapohl @bellnor757 @nancella @AbbyMokhtari According to research, the implicit prejudiced attitudes of teachers negatively affect the differences between ethnic achievement gap sizes across classrooms through teacher expectations (Van den Bergh et al., 2010). This conversation is powerful. https://t.co/gA75479GFf