These are the slides I presented at RWJ School of Medicine Grand Rounds, University Day when new faculty were inducted into the Master Educator's Guild.
12. Twitter
Tweet: 140 characters or fewer
RT retweet forwarded message
DM direct message private message
@ reply public reply
# hashtag a tag with which to label tweets with a
particular theme
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15. Twitter at Penn State
Medical Humanities
Trigger students with questions to reflect or
write about
Students sent tweets during home patient
encounters
George D, Dellasega C, Medical Teacher 2011; 33:
e429–e434 DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2011.586749
16. Twitter at Conferences
@UMDNJ_RWJMS
http://tweetchat.com/room/hpm
http://tweetchat.com/room/meded
17. The good, the bad, and the ugly of
twitter
The good The bad
A link to a great article find or blog
Patient information – HIPAA issues
post and a few words why
Updates on policy, healthcare reform Self-promotion gone awry
Announcement of event, highlights of Workplace gossip (remember, it’s
a talk public)
18. The good, the bad, and the ugly of
twitter
Professionalism in social media will be a
necessary competency for this generation
The good The bad
A link to a great article find or blog
Patient information – HIPAA issues
post and a few words why
Updates on policy, healthcare reform Self-promotion gone awry
Announcement of event, highlights of Workplace gossip (remember, it’s
a talk public)
22. Ways to use twitter in the classroom
Class updates
Learning morsels
Take a poll
Share resources: articles, references, links
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/
23. Create a list
Use # - hashtags
Tweetdeck and tweetchat
Don’t open suspicious
links
33. Blogs, Vlogs, & Podcasts
To share knowledge
“To build community.
To reflect on experiences.
To contribute to a guidebook.”
Tim Handorf, on why medical students should
blog.
http://medicalstudentblogs.blogspot.com/
35. Wikis
From the words of Medpedia:
Wisdom of the Many
Collaborative
Interdisciplinary
Appropriate language
Transparent
Self Service
Free, Web-Based, Real Time
45. Social bookmarking Social citation
Save and share links to webpages, blogs, Save and share links and bibliographic
photographs. information of articles, blogs.
Some can save the entire article.
A substitute (perhaps) for Endnote and
similar programs: facilitates writing papers.
Save PDFs, etc.
CiteULike, Connotea, Mendeley, Zotero
Delicious, Diigo,
(google Chrome, only)
Tags = the “keyword” used to save and search the articles with.
Create or join groups of people who share similar research interests.
Create folders
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50. Social bookmarking & social citation
How to use:
Save links to websites, articles, podcasts, videos
– tag them to help find them later.
Create RSS feeds of the tags on your blog,
personalized learning network, wiki, or other
site
Share and collect references and links with
colleagues
55. PLN’s are deliberately formed
networks of people and
resources capable of guiding
our independent learning goals.
and our professional development
needs.
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57. Lois Green Learning Community
(LGLC)
Based on Ning Platform - but moving to “Canvas”
Core curriculum
• Referenced articles (delicious, citeulike, diig)
Discussion board
• Case discussions
• Journal club
• Member topics
Member Blog – reflection & narrative medicine
RSS feeds to/from other blogs, microblog (twitter, facebook)
Twitter integration
62. Summary
Social media changes the dynamics of education
Can help build adult learning skills early
Helps meet competencies - if addressed
Twitter - helps disseminate information
Blogs - venue for sharing and receiving information, may also be
reflective
Wikis - means to collaborate on text and documents
RSS - helps bring information in
Social bookmarking/citation - builds the library
Personalized learning network - integrates all of these
63. Thank you
“Social networks are these intricate things of
beauty, and they’re so elaborate and so complex
and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what
purpose they serve.” Nicholas Christakis