What are your experiences with Web 2.0?

What successes, failures, challenges, and enablers can you share?

We are in Boston, a city known for...

... its ties to revolutionary and liberating activities. What do you think about Web 2.0 - is it/can it be evolutionary, revolutionary, or a collosal waste of time?

Your perception of Web 2.0

Tell us what you think. What is this thing called "Web 2.0"?

New TiPEL SIG Officers and Meeting Update

Please join me in welcoming Jeff Cain (Kentucky) and Tracy Chapman (Creighton) as our Chair-elect and Secretary, respectively. Jeff will serve a one year term as Chair-elect from 7/09 to 7/10. He will then serve as Chair from 7/10 to 7/11. Tracy will serve as Secretary for two years (7/09 to 7/11). Both will be installed at Mondays' SIG business meeting. I look forward to their leadership.

As the Annual Meeting sneaks up, I wanted to let you know about programming that may be of interest to you.

Saturday 7/18

8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Teachers Seminar: Technology in Teaching

Sunday 7/19

6:45 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
Topical Roundtable I - E-Portfolios throughout the Pharmacy Curriculum, Innovation in Teaching: Use of Blogs as a Learning Tool, Mentoring Distance Faculty, School/College of Pharmacy Personal Computers Requirements for Professional Pharmacy Students: Necessary and/or Advisable in 2009?

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Opening General Session

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Libraries/Educational Resources Section: Innovations in Teaching: Curricular Integration of Information Competencies for Students and Preceptors at Remote Sites

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Special Session: E-Health Leadership Strategies for Pharmacy Vision 2015

Monday 7/20

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
Topical Roundtable II - A You Tube Discovery Learning Project, Educating the Next Generation of Pharmacy Students: Early Experience with Virtual Learning in Second Life at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, E-Portfolios in the Pharm.D. Curriculum: Sharing Best Practices for Administration and Review, Social Networks in MTM, Using New Social Media for Pharmacy Student Recruitment and Alumni Engagement

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Technology in Phamacy Education and Learning SIG: Technology Use to Facilitate Student Learning in the Clinical Years: Examples of Success and Failure

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Blended Learning: Making the Most of Online and Face-to-Face Instruction

5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Technology in Phamacy Education and Learning SIG: Business Meeting

Tuesday 7/21

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Special Session: Web 2.0, Health 2.0, and Pharmacy Education: Opportunities for Pharmacy Educators to Reach Millennial Students

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Reflective and progressive E-portfolio: Longitudinal Documentation and Reflection upon Professional Development and Ability-based Outcomes Achievement

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Ethical and Legal Issues Regarding New Social Media (Facebook, Blogs, Wikipedia, etc.) and Pharmacy Education

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Novel Methods of IPPE Instruction Delivery

Wednesday 7/22

10:30 a.m. - Noon
Special Session: Intervention Databases: A Tool for Documenting Student Learning and Clinical Value

Hope to see you there.
Brent

iPhone and iPod Touch

Auburn is an iTunes U partner but we do not use it within the SOP because we use an existing product that provides real-time video conference as well as recording capabilities. Other schools on campus are podcasting and incorporating the iPhone and iPod touch in the classroom in other ways.

I am aware of other SOPs that are moving to Apple to support teaching and learning. Jeff Cain and I have an upcoming article in AJPE re: Web 2.0 / Health 2.0 applications in pharmacy education. I bet many of you have already adopted Web 2.0 and many may have developed apps for the iPhone.

Please share your experiences. This is an exciting time.

New collaborative medical encyclopedia

Thanks to Jeff Cain for sending along the link to Medpedia.com. Similar to the credentialing process of Sermo.com, users must have an MD or PhD in a biomedical field to post on the site. Harvard and Stanford Medical Schools are a few of the sponsors of the site.

We have witnessed the popularity of Wikipedia and other uses of wikis, including a book that was written completely in a wiki environment. I wonder how much traction this site will gain. The site is also intended to provide networking for health care professionals, serve as a source for patients to find information, and provide a medium for discussion of emerging topics.

I can see the potential value in this site...as a virtual reference supporting the education of future health care professionals, a method for discussion of emerging or controversial treatment approaches, a "preferred" reference for patients (vs. a Google search on the topic of interest), and a host of other ideas.

I wonder what you think. Will you point your students or colleagues to it? Will you register as an editor? Will you file it away as "not worth the time"?

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Social reference management

I've been using EndNote locally on my machine for years. With Web 2.0, we have the option to use online reference management tools that allow us to collaborate with others. EndNote Web provides this function. Connotea is a well-known tool that "grew up" and exists purely as a Web application. Others include Labmeeting, CiteULike, and WizFolio (which I have recently started using).

One feature of WizFolio that I really like is the ability to upload a PDF and let WizFolio use metadata to create a citation for the PDF. It also will go out and search for PDFs of citations that you enter maually or through an upload from your existing management software. It is free (for now) but I wonder how long that will last.

What are you using? What do you think about it?

What are you doing with blogs?

Let's discuss how we are using blogs in our educational efforts.

Successes? Failures? What have you learned?

Brent