Ethics assignment

1. Reflective blogging in the Professional Ethics for Physiotherapy module Ethics assignment

2. What is a blog? • A website • Contraction of weblog (i.e. a log or journal posted on the web) • Entries can be commentary on events, society, education, healthcare...anything • Entries listed in reverse chronological order • Can contain text, images, video, audio, links • Readers can leave comments

3. Why reflection? • Reflection has been shown to be a significant component of the learning process • Especially important to facilitate clinical and ethical reasoning • Reflection is an important component of the Professional Ethics in Physiotherapy module • Because often there is no clearly correct answer and ethical reasoning is only a framework to make decisions

4. Why blogging? • Blogging is being evaluated as a potentially useful means of practicing reflection • It allows a personal publication in the form of a single, dated entry (like a journal) • It allows others to contribute back to the reflection in the form of comments, possibly encouraging the original author to reflect still further

5. Ethical considerations • Privacy • Blog is completely closed to the public • Only registered users can view and edit posts • Only I can register users • Confidentiality • Students are registered with student numbers • Authors are listed by student numbers • Opening the blog? • Students will have the option of deleting all their content permanently on completion

6. Preparatory reading • Wikis, blogs and podcasts (background information)http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/6/41 • Blogging as academic publication (http://bit.ly/ijMAs)

7. Instructions • Go to www.mrowe.co.za/physioblog

9. Blog title

10. Sidebar with information

11. Meta link to Site Admini.e. where you go to edit your reflections

12. Pages with extra information

13. Dashboard

14. Quickly posting a blog entry

15. Enter your post

16. Post published

17. More comprehensive editingi.e. not using Quickpress

18. Editing a post

19. Adding text

20. Saving / publishing

21. Viewing your post

22. The published post

23. Commenting on other posts

24. Comment form

25. Add and submit your commentAll comments will be moderated

26. Comment as it appears on the blog

27. Reply to commentClick on the “Reply” link

28. Turbo (optional install)On “Dashboard” page

29. Turbo install page

30. Installing Turbo • Note: This image shows a Linux install. Yours will say “Windows” under the Install Gears button

31. Accept Terms and conditions

32. Install instructions • If using Firefox web browser, look at the top of the screen to allow the plugin to install • If nothing happens, click on the link to manually download the installer • Restart your browser after installing Gears

33. Enable Gears

34. Subscribing to the blogAlso optional

35. Live bookmarks • Save like a normal bookmark in your browser • Every time someone creates a post, your bookmark will update with the post • Instead of going to the site every time, just click on the Live bookmark to see what's new

36. Alternative ways to blogWithout being online all the time • Scribefire addon for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730 • w.blogger (http://www.wbloggar.com/) • Deepest sender for Firefoxhttp://deepestsender.mozdev.org/) • More blogging clients at http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client • Or, write your blog post in Notepad / Word, and copy and paste it into Wordpress when you go online at www.mrowe.co.za/physioblog

37. Assistance • This presentation, the relevant articles and blogging clients are available on the gym laptop • I am available for questions at any time: • Contact details have been removed...

38. Conclusion of the assignment • Blog closed for comments and posting 30 March • Students have the following control over the content: • Leave content online, remain anonymous • Leave content online, assume identity • Remove all content from the site