Tag: social networks
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Uncertain times: A short reflection on career progression
As part of the 10 year celebration of SAFRI – the Southern African FAIMER Regional Institute – I was asked to contribute short reflection to a chapter on Professional development: Post fellowship on a personal and professional level. This is what I submitted (download the PDF).
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Exposing the culture of professional practice
I often forget that learning is not only mediated by social relationships, but by cultural relationships as well. To a large degree we are the products of influence that emerge from interactions between thousands of variables within our families, groups of friends, communities, religions and countries. The process of becoming a physiotherapist is also embedded within…
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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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AMEE conference (day 3)
Today was the final day of AMEE 2011. Here are the notes I took. The influence of social networks on students’ learning J Hommes Collaborative learning is supposed to facilitate interaction and it’s impact on student learning Difficult to quantify the role of informal learning Informal social interaction: behaviour is the result of interactions and…
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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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Attendance of e-learning colloquium
I attended the first few presentations of an e-learning colloquium on campus last Tuesday. Here are a few short notes I took during the short time I was there. Begin a section of work with a short test to evaluate pre-intervention knowledge. The questions should be aligned with important content from the module. This will…
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Thoughts on social networking with 3rd year physio students
Earlier this week I ran a workshop with our 3rd year physio students, as part of my SAFRI project where I’m looking at how participation in a social network can impact reflective learning practices in a community. Unlike the other workshops I’ve run, I’m going to be running this assignment, which will see the students…
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SAAHE – Social networks and reflective practice in clinical education
Here is my presentation from the SAAHE conference. Social networks and reflective learning View more presentations from Michael Rowe.
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SAAHE conference, 2010
I’m leaving on Wednesday to attend the 3rd SAAHE conference at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (link to programme). I’ll be presenting the results of a pilot study within our department to try and establish students’ access to computers and the internet, their experience with online tools and services, the learning strategies they employ…
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Summary of PhD progress
I’m writing this after having read Christina’s post on her thoughts on the PhD process, and following a few of her links to other PhD students who are blogging their own progress. As I’m going through a little slump at the moment, I thought it might be useful to write a short post on where…
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Social networks as platforms to establish communities of practice
I finally managed to submit my application to participate in the FAIMER programme for 2010. I’m not sure when the applications will be processed, but I’ll be sure to announce it here. See below for the Introduction to my project proposal: “A traditional curriculum is based on an accumulated body of knowledge that has been…
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Open research
I’ve been thinking about the concept of open research since listening to Jon Udell’s interview with Jean-Claude Bradley on his open notebook science project. The idea is similar to the open approach to writing software in that the process is transparent and open to scrutiny by anyone. This could have important implications for the soundness…
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10th annual conference on World Wide Web applications
in ConferenceAfrican Online Scientific Informations Systems, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, e-commerce, e-government, e-learning, e-society, facebook, google scholar, higher education, online intermediaries, open source, social networks, south africa, students, university of cape town, web 2.0, Web applications, world wide webYesterday I registered to attend the 10th annual conference on World Wide Web applications being held at the University of Cape Town from the 3-5 September. It’ll look at the impact of the web on our daily lives, focusing on four tracks or themes, namely; e-commerce, e-learning, e-government and e-society. Some of the presentations I’m…
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The machine is us…
I came across this great video on YouTube today that looks at the direction the web is taking in terms of the separation of structure and content, as well the role of social networks in creating the semantic web. Strictly speaking, it’s not directly related to education or healthcare but it does have an indirect…