1 / 26

Beyond the Garden Wall

Beyond the Garden Wall. Using Wordpress to support teaching & learning. Natalie Lafferty. Changing landscape. University VLE. Medical School VLE. Walled garden. Changing Culture. http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3925801816/. http://www.dontbeasalmon.net/med.html.

hagen
Download Presentation

Beyond the Garden Wall

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Beyond the Garden Wall Using Wordpress to support teaching & learning Natalie Lafferty

  2. Changing landscape

  3. University VLE

  4. Medical School VLE

  5. Walled garden

  6. Changing Culture http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3925801816/

  7. http://www.dontbeasalmon.net/med.html

  8. http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/

  9. http://biochemistryquestions.wordpress.com/

  10. University Mary Washington Blogs

  11. UMW - Digital Storytelling Course

  12. “Edupunk - an approach to teaching and learning practices that result from a do-it-yourself (DIY) attitude. Many instructional applications can be described as DIY education or Edupunk. It describes inventive teaching and inventive learning.”

  13. Blogging Doctors http://www.flickr.com/photos/jreed/322057841/

  14. Mashing up content

  15. Student Response • 6,000 hits on DundeeChest by the end of the 4 week teaching block • 78% would like other blocks to have a blog • Over 60% wanted to see additional posts over the coming months

  16. Student Response • Over 2,000 hits during 4 week block • Most popular features, case, x-ray and bones of the week • Students wanted more cases and ‘test yersel’ posts • Students visiting/reading via Blackboard, Dundeeblogs, Google, RSS, email, mobile devices

  17. Future plans • Self-hosting in the Medical School • More formal pilots and evaluations • Retain educational focus - more cases of the week and formative assessment • Aggregate the content into a front page for each year group

  18. Thank you Natalie Lafferty Email - n.t.lafferty@dundee.ac.uk Twitter - nlafferty Blogs - http://dundeemeded.wordpress.com/ http://mededelearning.wordpress.com/

More Related