Setting up a reflective blog

BMSc Teaching in Medicine

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Today’s session

1. Why blog?

2. Some examples

3. How and where?

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Why

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Learning is social

Learning in the global village

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Text

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“Using Web 2.0 technologies leads to a new sense of communities of interest and networks and also a clear notion of boundaries in web space - for example personal space, group space and publishing space.” JISC 2009

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Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

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“It should enable us to use the social digital landscape for reflection and conversations. And in our ability to enter into dialogue on the basis of shared values, we become individual agents of change.”

10 October 2011http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/higher-education-network-blog/2011/oct/10/digital-literacy-collaboration?CMP=twt_gu

A few examples

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http://colinsmededblog.blogspot.com/

http://blogs.usask.ca/medical_education/

http://blogs.usask.ca/medical_education/

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How & where

http://wordpress.com/

http://blogger.com/

http://posterous.com/

http://www.tumblr.com

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Dip your toe in the water ...

Let’s give it a try

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