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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Thinking about Posterous, Friendfeed and Tumblr

Last month Posterous ran a marketing campaign targeting users of Tumblr, Flickr and WordPress, amongst others, trying to tempt them over to Posterous.  Posterous has claimed that platforms like WordPress are dying and that users should make the most of their new import tools and transfer their blogs over to them.  The tone of Posterous’ [...]

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Medicine for students as and when required!

Today saw the culmination of 4 months of hard work by about 10 of our 2nd year medical students with the launch of a new website DundeePRN Medicine for students as and when required.  I blogged back in September about blogging doctors and how a colleague in respiratory medicine had set up DundeeChest to support [...]

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Is RSS in decline or waiting to be discovered?

ReadWriteWeb (RWW) have posted a piece highlighting that one of the interesting technology trends of 2009 has been the growing decline of RSS Readers. Richard MacManus, who wrote the post, mentions that whilst he maintains a Google Reader account, he doesn’t check it everyday but does check Twitter for news information multiple times a day. [...]

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Audio feedback and student digital competencies

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to my blog.  This is partly due to doing an online staff development course which took up quite a bit of time over a 7 week period and spending more time on Twitter.  There have been things that I’ve almost written about on my blog, but I’ve just [...]

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Improving my memory

This week I started a 6-week staff development course on Teaching & Learning Online.  It’s been quite interesting so far and I’m quite enjoying being a student again for a few weeks.  In this first week there are a series of activities for us to engage with, comment on and reflect on in our personal [...]

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Twitter bug

I set up a Twitter account back in March after seeing it featured on the BBCs technology programme Click.  Having created an account I couldn’t really see the point of it and didn’t look at Twitter again for several months.  I’ve dipped into it from time to time since then over the past few months [...]

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Social Bookmarking – Making connections

My last post looked at Diigo and how this allowed you not just to bookmark sites like Delicious does, but also lets you highlight sections of a webpage and add sticky note annotations.  The other advantage it has over Delicious is that it allows you to create groups, these can be public or private and [...]

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Diigo – Highlighting and sharing the web

I’ve been using Delicious for sometime to manage my internet bookmarks.  Delicious is a useful social bookmarking tool, you create an account and start to bookmark websites and add tags which help you to manage your bookmarks and help you find them again relatively easily.  As this is a web-based application you can access your [...]

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