British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 43 No 5 2012 754-769 As part of my assignment on learning technologies, I have done some literature searches. My intent is to critically evaluate a series of articles which look at the impact of Social Media on education. I am not starting in any particular order, just in … Continue reading Teachers & Social Networking
Mastering Your Risk – MPS course
The Medical Protection Society run a series of educational courses which are free to members (or a modest fee for non-members). I have been on three of them now & have found all of them particularly useful. The most recent one I attended was the Mastering Your Risk. This was a particularly useful one to … Continue reading Mastering Your Risk – MPS course
Top 100 tools for learning
This list is a pretty comprehensive list of, as the title suggests' the top 100 tools for learning. Funnily enough Twitter is number 1 which does not surprise me. There is an interesting discussion of the pros and cons of social media here with some comments afterwards. Unfortunately the full text cannot be accessed from this site as … Continue reading Top 100 tools for learning
Social Networking and Learning
This editorial is worth reading if only to whet the appetite for what is happening in SNS (Social Networking Services). It is from the British Journal of Educational Technology (Vol 43, Issue 5; Sept 2012). Unfortunately it is not free access. However one of the papers in the journal is available here. In it, Pachler … Continue reading Social Networking and Learning
Resources
I have added a new resources page. This will carry permanent links to downloadable teaching and education tools for all to use.
June Meeting – Patient Safety
The June meeting used the Patient Safety – learning from Human Error module. This was a really useful module as it was less didactic and the members really got into it. The examples from other industries and professions was a good way at analyzing what we do. The ‘sterile cockpit’ analogy was something we all … Continue reading June Meeting – Patient Safety
Welcome
Welcome to the first blog entry of our PBSGL Blog! I would appreciate it if you can spend a bit of time reading through this as a an invite to participate. This blog has two purposes. I unashamedly am using you as my Guinea Pigs for my assignment whilst participating in the Learning Technologies in … Continue reading Welcome
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