Blogs and wikis

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Blogs and wikis
Medical Education Unit School of Medicine

• John Sandars Senior Lecturer
• j.e.sandars_at_leeds.ac.uk

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• What are blogs and wikis?
• Why should we be interested?
• How can they be used in medical education?

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Things are changing! The Neaten

• How are young people learning?
• The Net Generation
• Demographic revolution meets the digital
  revolution
• Learn, work,
  play and shop differently
• Digital
  natives / Digital immigrants

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Blog is a type of website where entries are
made (such as in a journal or diary), displayed
in a reverse chronological order.
http//en.wikipedia.org/
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Typical Blog Title main title, or
headline, of the post Body main content of
the post Permalink URL of the full,
individual article Post Date date and time of
the post Comments Categories (or tags)
Trackbacks links to other sites that refer
to the entry
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http//www.downes.ca/ http//www.downes.ca/
http//islandmedic.blogspot.com/ http//islandmed
ic.blogspot.com
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Creating a blog its incredibly easy! Blogger
Free www.blogger.com Typepad
Hosted www.typepad.com
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Finding a blog - Blog search engines Bloglines
http//www.bloglines.com/ Google Blog
Search http//blogsearch.google.com/ Technorati
http//www.technorati.com/
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Blogs

• Read
• Medical
• Patient voice
• Write
• Course page
• Individual Journal / E portfolio / File store
• Collective space
• Interact

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http//blog.bioethics.net/ http//blog.bioethics.n
et/ http//www.docnotes.com/ http//www.docnotes.
com/
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Clinical Cases and Images http//clinicalc
ases.blogspot.com/
http//clinicalcases.blog
spot.com/2005/07/pulmonology-and-critical-care-cas
es.html
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Wikis

• is a type of website that allows users to
  easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change
  some available content
• http//en.wikipedia.org/
• Collaborative space
• projects
• research