Tag: social software

Faculty writing workshop

Jul 10, 2009

in Photography, Research, Social media

abstract, academic writing, communication technology, delicious, digg, facebook, flickr, Houwhoek Inn, journal editor, physiotherapy, publish, research, social software, social software tools, south africa, twitter, wikipedia, youtube

I just got back from an academic writing workshop at the Houwhoek Inn (their site needs some serious work). The point was to go there with an idea of an article you were going to write, spend 3 days writing it and getting feedback from the other participants and to end up with a draft…
SAAHE ’09: abstract for oral presentation

Mar 30, 2009

in Conference, Education, Physiotherapy, Social media

abstract, blogging, clinical reasoning, collaboration, education, ethics, healthcare, healthcare system, human rights, lecturer, online tools, physiotherapy, professional development, reflection, reflective tool, saahe, social constructivism, social software, student

Here’s the abstract I submitted for SAAHE ’09. It was submitted for consideration in the Innovations and work in progress category. Title The use of blogging as a reflective tool in physiotherapy ethics. Context The use of social software in higher education facilitates collaborative learning practices and mirrors the social constructivist principles of education by…
HESS conference (day 1)

Dec 1, 2008

in Conference, Education

conceptual infrastructure, e-learning, HESS, keynotes, presentation, social software, speaker

OK, so we’ve finished the first day of the conference and it was pretty interesting. Almost every speaker had something to say that I found interesting. I attended the following presentations, most of which were in the e-learning track: Keynote: Opening up spaces for research and enquiry Introducing the construct of “conceptual infrastructure” to support…
Facebook privacy and copyright issues

Sep 7, 2008

in Education, Social media, Technology

facebook, instant messaging, platform, privacy, social networking site, social software, teaching, terms of use

I know that there’s quite a lot of interest in using Facebook, the social networking site, as a platform for interaction with students (1, 2). Whether that interaction is going to be on a social level (and the implications of that alone are certainly food for thought) or academically, it’s worth taking note of Facebook’s…
How web 2.0 is changing medicine

Aug 20, 2008

in Open access, Social media, Technology, Web

british medical journal, Dean Giustini, healthcare, librarian, open content, podcast, rss, social software, web 2.0, wiki, wikipedia

The British Medical Journal published this article in December (2006), which may not seem like a long time ago in the traditional approach to academic publication but which in terms of the Internet is already old news. It asks, “Is a medical wikipedia the next step?”, a question I think is becoming more and more…

Tag: social software

Faculty writing workshop

SAAHE ’09: abstract for oral presentation

HESS conference (day 1)

Facebook privacy and copyright issues

How web 2.0 is changing medicine