Category: Social media
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Following participants in the PHT402 Ethics course
Many of the participants in the #pht402 Professional Ethics course have never blogged before and are only casual users of services like Twitter. This post aims to suggest some of the ways that participants can follow each other using a variety of services and programmes. In addition, I’ve also suggested another option for RSS reader…
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PHT402 Professional Ethics course introduction
Introduction for the PHT402 Professional Ethics course that is due to begin in about a week. The course is being run at the University of the Western Cape, in conjunction with Physiopedia and aims to explore different ways of developing generic attributes that are relevant for ethical professional practice in the healthcare professions. Hi everyone.…
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Online learning and the underlying software
I came across this post by Michael Sean Gallagher, Creating elearning: Using plugins in WordPress, which touches on the idea that we should be paying more attention to the tools we use in online spaces. When Michael posted the link above on his blog, and then shared it to Google+, I commented on it. I realised…
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How Can Teachers Prepare Kids for a Connected World?
“PLAY describes a mode of experimentation, of testing materials, trying out new solutions, exploring new horizons,” Jenkins said. It’s how kids interact with games – throwing themselves in without reading the rules, testing the limits and feeling free to try and fail. But this learning style is hard to achieve in a system ruled by…
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Face-to-face as a subset of virtual learning spaces?
…educational technology is no longer a single innovation or a group of innovations but a sea change based on the awareness that face-to-face (F2F) pedagogy is a subset of the virtual learning environment — and not the other way around. I like this quote from an old post by 21st century fluency, although I’m not…
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Design principles for clinical reasoning
Clinical reasoning is hard to do, and even harder to facilitate in novice practitioners who lack the experience and patterns of thinking that enable them to establish conceptual relationships that are often non-trivial. Experienced clinicians have developed, over many years and many patients, a set of thinking patterns that influence the clinical decisions they make,…
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Social media and professional identity: Part 3 (Mendeley)
Academic social networks: Mendeley Everyone is familiar with Facebook and many people have heard of Google+ so I’m not going to spend much time reviewing them, other than to say that for me, neither of them is currently a big part of my own professional presence. I use Google+ a lot but in a personal…
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Social media and professional identity: Part 2 (blogs & microblogs)
Welcome to Part 2 of my series on using social media to create and develop an online professional identity. Here is the full list of topics that I’m going to cover: Part 1: Introduction to the internet and social media Part 2: Social media, online identity and engagement (blogs and microblogs) Part 3: Academic social…
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Social media and professional identity: Part 1 (Introduction)
As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m getting another article ready for the Clinical Teacher mobile app; Social media and Professional Identity. I’ve been working on it sporadically over the past few months and have finally sent it to the designer for laying it out and getting it ready for the app. I’ve been…
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Developing mobile apps for clinical educators
I’m happy and proud to announce that my first app has been released into the App store. I’ve been working on this project for a few months now, in collaboration with the excellent team at Snapplify, in order to get this release out the door. The name of the app is The Clinical Teacher, and it’s…
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Bring your own device
For the past 2 months we’ve been operating under a bring–your–own–device (BYOD) policy in one of the modules I’m co-ordinating. Actually, it’s the module that I’m evaluating for my PhD, and the BYOD policy is just one component of a completely restructured approach to the curriculum. Some background: Physiotherapy students work to solve clinical problems…
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Using the Community of Inquiry in online learning environments
I’m in the process of putting together a workshop for the facilitators of one of our modules that we’re restructuring in order to use a blended learning approach. Here are the notes that I’ve been putting together on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) for the workshop. Bear in mind that these notes are my attempt…
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Using a rubric for a blogging assignment
Earlier this year I gave my 3rd year students an assignment in which they needed to write a reflective blog post based on a clinical experience they’d experienced. I just thought I’d share the rubric I used to grade the assignments, as I’ve come across a few people have have had difficulty trying to assign…
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Social networks and clinical education: presentation at SAAHE
My presentation at the SAAHE conference is a more in-depth look at the same project that I presented at the conference in 2010. The key points I wanted to make were that: Students struggle to develop practice knowledge because it is hidden from them i.e. they can’t “see” our thinking process as we reason our…
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Reflective blogging in an Evidence-based practice module
During 2010 a colleague and I studied the use of blogging to facilitate reflection among postgraduate physiotherapy students as it related to the process of learning evidence-based practice. We’re in the last stages of writing the article and have developed a poster that will be presented at the World Congress of Physical Therapy in Amsterdam…
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Why open licensing benefits everyone
In 2009 I started an online physiotherapy encyclopaedia called OpenPhysio. It was a space for me to run a few assignments with my 4th year students at the time, as well as a bit of an experiment to see what would happen i.e. would physiotherapists and physiotherapy students automatically create and edit an online physiotherapy…
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The use of innovative technology in clinical education
A few days ago I gave a presentation to our faculty on the use of innovative technologies in teaching practice with specific reference to clinical education. I’ve been using Prezi a bit because I wanted to explore alternative ways of doing presentations. Here it is: Innovative technology in clinical education on Prezi Note: the…
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SAFRI residential session
I’ve recently finished the second residential session of SAFRI, a programme for the development of research in medical education in Africa. I spent a big part of 2010 working on my SAFRI project (link to project notes), which I’ll be presenting at this years SAAHE conference in Potchefstroom. One of the main assignments for this session…
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Using social networks to develop reflective discourse in the context of clinical education
My SAFRI project for 2010 looked at the use of a social network as a platform to develop clinical and ethical reasoning skills through reflective discussion between undergraduate physiotherapy students. Part of the assignment was to prepare a poster for presentation at the SAAHE conference in Potchefstroom later this year, which I’ve included below. I…
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Is researching a Twitter feed ethical?
I just finished reading an article looking at the feasibility of Twitter as a form of academic conference discourse for non-participants (Ebner et al, 2010). Results of the article aside, which are useful in themselves, it got me thinking about the ethics of conducting research on a public conversation. I know that Twitter is a public platform…