Tag: wiki

Podcast: Lex Fridman talks to Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia

Jun 22, 2023

in Note, Open access, Technology

Jimmy Wales, Lex Fridman, podcast, wiki, wikipedia

I really enjoyed this conversation between Lex Fridman and Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of my favourite websites, not only for the obvious utility of having an enormously broad, diverse, and detailed encyclopedia, but for the community of people who create it.
Sharing? Collaboration? No thanks

Aug 5, 2011

in Education, Learning, Students, Technology

collaboration, demonstration, Google Docs, groupwork, sharing, spinal cord injury, wiki

Last week I took our third year students to see a demonstration of the management of a patient with spinal cord injury as part of the Movement Science module that I teach. I noticed that during the demonstration many of them were taking pretty comprehensive notes, and thought that this would be a great opportunity…
Assignments

Feb 19, 2010

in Assignments, Education, Ethics

assignment, community-based healthcare settings, education, ethics, Google, google sites, healthcare system, human rights, Ireland, learning outcomes, management, module, online presence, physiopedia, physiotherapist, physiotherapy, Royal College of Surgeons, south africa, university of the western cape, Western Cape, wiki

Over the last week I’ve given my fourth year physiotherapy students 2 assignments to be completed over the next few months. Here is a basic rundown of each. The first assignment is part of the continuous evaluation for the Management module I teach. The students must create a website for a (fictional) private physiotherapy practice.…
Reflections on improving teaching practice

Feb 8, 2010

in Education, Research, Technology

Ann F. Lucas, blog, lecturer, open textbook, phd, Professor, reflection, research, scholarship of teaching and learning, students, teaching, teaching practice, wiki

Up until today, I was kind of maintaining 2 blogs…this one, and a reflective commentary that I included in my teaching portfolio wiki. The portfolio is something that our faculty suggests we keep for when we apply for promotion, etc. but I thought it could be something more. So when I started teaching in 2007, I…
International collaborative undergraduate student project

Sep 16, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Students, Technology

collaboration, education, final products, physiopaedia, project leader, research, students, undergraduate, wiki

I’ve recently been invited to participate in a collaborative undergraduate physiotherapy project, hosted at Physiopaedia, for 2010. It will involve students from several countries and continents, and our students will be the only ones from a developing country, which should make for an interesting comparison of the final products at the end. Following the conclusion…
Wiki marking rubric

Aug 3, 2009

in Education, Social media, Technology

assessment, assignment, grading, guideline, marking, rubric, wiki, wiki-based

I just finished putting together a grading rubric for a wiki-based assignment that my fourth year students did earlier this year. After I couldn’t find one that suited my needs, I developed my own and thought I’d post it here (see below without formatting) in the meantime. If you have any suggestions to improve on…
Medpedia: collaborative medical knowledge base

Feb 17, 2009

in Education, Note, Physiotherapy, Social media

collaboration, editor, healthcare professionals, Jeff Nugent, medpedia, open content, openphysio, social media, twitter, wiki

I got this link about Medpedia off Twitter from Jeff Nugent. It’s a “collaborative, interdisciplinary, transparent” approach to sharing knowledge about health and medicine. Content control is by only allowing registered users to contribute, with the general public able to suggest changes to an article. Registration requires being approved by an editor, and only medical…
The social construction of knowledge using a wiki

Feb 12, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Social media

collaboration, critical review, drafting, groupwork, openphysio, paediatric assignment, pedagogy, projects, social constructivism, teacher, wiki

I’ve started a few projects in my department, one of which revolves around the use of wikis to create environments for students to engage more dynamically with both the content and each other. The rationale is that deeper learning occurs when there is an understanding of the content that goes beyond the ability to recite…
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…