Diary of an Online Journal Club aged 3 ¾

months

Saturday 1st January 2011NEW YEAR’S DAY IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES

Today, I am remembering the old days when Pandora and Nigel would go to Training events without me. That’s all changed of course..

Now there’s no money so I must try to help. I’m online so there’s no travel and I’m free to join!So here are my New Year’s Resolutions:

I will promote evidence based practice

ask, acquire,appraise,apply,assess

I will help solve real problems

I will help develop Critical Appraisal skills

I will help keep you up-to-date on library

practice

Photo by Daneel Ariantho

I will not be blocked by firewalls!

Tuesday, 4th January 2011BANK HOLIDAY IN SCOTLAND

My Club is going well! Nigel said nobody would be interested but it just shows how much he knows!

I’ve got 18 MEMBERS!!!

Wednesday, 5th January 2011Sunrise: 8.33am. Sunset: 5.12pm. Mostly cloudy.

We need rules for our Club.

(OK, they’re not rules, just step-by-step

instructions.)

Thursday, 6th January 2011

Rule 1: Suggest a topic (use the “Add comment” box)

Friday, 7th January 2011Feast of Raymond of Penyafort

Rule 2: This is true democracy. Other members now consider the topic….

..and if it’s a hit then everyone joins in the search for papers.

Rule 3: A new topic page is created by the

administrator.

Monday, 10th January 2011Partly sunny

You can load relevant

papers but please

check Copyright. It

would be just my luck

to get done for

breaching copyright!

Pandora said she’s just

going to provide the

citation/link using the

comments box. I

think that’s quite

clever actually.

Wednesday, 19th January 2011Full moon

Upload

files here

…..then create a focused question using the “SPICE”

box

Tuesday, 25th January 2011 Feast of Conversion of Paul

Rule 4: pick an article that

looks like it will answer the

question, and analyse it using

this

Nigel says this really helps with Critical

Appraisal skills. I told him we all knew that

already.

Would you like to join our bunch? Go to:

http://onlinejournalclub.pbworks.com

Thanks to Philip Martin; Daneel Ariantho; ClipArt; Dreamstime; to all those who make their images available “for non-commercial reuse” and to Creative Commons for making it possible.