I'm interested in the use of Web 2.0 in pharmacy/health sciences education and so am interested in learning how others are using blogs. At our college, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy in Kingsville, Texas, a component of the Texas A&M HSC, we have a faculty member who has students develop a wiki for an assignment but don't think we've integrated blogs in our teaching yet.
I use my blog (pharmacylibrarian.blogspot.com) to help me archive my lectures, slides, and handouts. Since I only give guest lectures - don't have a course that I manage - this is a nice way for me to organize my stuff from year to year.
Unfortunately I also don't update it very often, though I keep meaning too!
KT Vaughan Pharmacy Librarian/Clinical Assoc. Prof UNC Chapel Hill
I use blogs as an assessment tool in a human resource management class that I teach to 2nd year professional students. As we go through each topic, students are required to write a blog once a week on the topic covered in class or any topic in the news that cpvers HRM.
I have found blogs to be an invaluable tool in many respects. It lets me know that the students understand the material and that they can put what we learn in practice.
Each student creates their own account on blogger that they use throughout the semester.
As a result of this activity, I have three years worth of blogs at my disposal that I can use to plan the course for subsequent years.
I do have to read all 80 blogs each weekend, but it gives me ideas about topics I can bring up in class or hold discussions over. I also try to incorporate the students' video clips they include or the cartoon clips they include in the PowerPoint presentations I use. It helps the students get more engaged.
The instructors in a team taught interdisciplinary service-learning course the takes students to Mexico over spring break began a blog last spring: http://www.xicoblogs.org/ We found it almost impossible to blog while in Mexico -- which is what we wanted to do initially; however, we did get some writing done. The purpose of the blog was to provide open reflection from the instructors that was viewable to our students and the Mexican students and others who worked with us in Mexico. We will probably ask the students taking the course this spring to read last year's blog and we will try to add to it this spring. Hazel Seaba.
While we're not using blogs yet, we're going to implement another of the web 2.0 tools hopefully this fall. For our non-traditonal courses we are trying to implement wikis to do case-discussions given the ability for students to collaborate on a case at a distance (our NTDP program is online).
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I'm interested in the use of Web 2.0 in pharmacy/health sciences education and so am interested in learning how others are using blogs. At our college, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy in Kingsville, Texas, a component of the Texas A&M HSC, we have a faculty member who has students develop a wiki for an assignment but don't think we've integrated blogs in our teaching yet.
ReplyDeleteI use my blog (pharmacylibrarian.blogspot.com) to help me archive my lectures, slides, and handouts. Since I only give guest lectures - don't have a course that I manage - this is a nice way for me to organize my stuff from year to year.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I also don't update it very often, though I keep meaning too!
KT Vaughan
Pharmacy Librarian/Clinical Assoc. Prof
UNC Chapel Hill
I use blogs as an assessment tool in a human resource management class that I teach to 2nd year professional students. As we go through each topic, students are required to write a blog once a week on the topic covered in class or any topic in the news that cpvers HRM.
ReplyDeleteI have found blogs to be an invaluable tool in many respects. It lets me know that the students understand the material and that they can put what we learn in practice.
Each student creates their own account on blogger that they use throughout the semester.
As a result of this activity, I have three years worth of blogs at my disposal that I can use to plan the course for subsequent years.
I do have to read all 80 blogs each weekend, but it gives me ideas about topics I can bring up in class or hold discussions over. I also try to incorporate the students' video clips they include or the cartoon clips they include in the PowerPoint presentations I use. It helps the students get more engaged.
The instructors in a team taught interdisciplinary service-learning course the takes students to Mexico over spring break began a blog last spring:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.xicoblogs.org/
We found it almost impossible to blog while in Mexico -- which is what we wanted to do initially; however, we did get some writing done. The purpose of the blog was to provide open reflection from the instructors that was viewable to our students and the Mexican students and others who worked with us in Mexico. We will probably ask the students taking the course this spring to read last year's blog and we will try to add to it this spring. Hazel Seaba.
While we're not using blogs yet, we're going to implement another of the web 2.0 tools hopefully this fall. For our non-traditonal courses we are trying to implement wikis to do case-discussions given the ability for students to collaborate on a case at a distance (our NTDP program is online).
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