Thinking about e-portfolios and Posterous

We’re in the process of reviewing our current student portfolio and looking to move from a paper-based portfolio to an e-portfolio.  Once the requirements have been defined and agreed we’ll start to review e-portfolio platforms and decide which one we’ll adopt.  I’ve yet to start looking at possible e-portfolio solutions in detail, but some of [...]

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Tweeting surgery

I came across this clip of Gray’s anatomy via Jane Hart’s C4LPT blog.  I’ve seen a few twitter channels broadcasting live surgery from the States, this piece in the Digital Journal gives links to Twitter streams at the Swedish Hospital in Seattle who tweeted a live kidney operation last year.  This episode of Gray’s Anatomy [...]

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Starter for 10: What online tools & social media should be accessible in the NHS?

I’ve written previously about the problems of accessing elearning in the NHS and how this affects teaching and learning.  Back in November my colleague Andrew Howe and I gave a presentation to the NHS-HE Forum on accessing University teaching and learning from the NHS.  Our presentattion  gave an overview of some of the problems our [...]

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