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Blogging for Health & Life Sciences
A critical evaluation
by Dr Anne Osterrieder & Marion WaiteFaculty of Health & Life Sciences Research Conference25th June 2013
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Where are you?
Have you already started blogging and want to know more?
OR
No idea about blogging .....but ...Curious?
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Benefits of blogging for teaching & learning
Facilitate courses, build content
Share resources
Develop writing skills
Alternative way to present your work
Create an online presence
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Reflection & evaluation (Brookfield, 2005)
Brookfield's critically reflective lens 1: autobiographical experiences of teacher/author/learner
As a source of primary
research data
Models and demonstrates
reflection
Ongoing teacher and
peer feedback
Links to secondary
data & current
thinking in a discipline
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Elements of Graduate Attributes
Promoting
• Digital literacy - students & staff
• Critical self - awareness ... (of learning & feedback styles) - students & staff
• Global Citizenship (by valuing learner diversity & sustainability through paperless practice)OBU Graduate Attributes
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PhD blogginghttp://sciencehastheanswer.blogspot.co.uk
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Curating information
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Academic blogging - common barriers
• Lack of confidence in: writing skills, subject knowledge, technical skills.
• Time constraints.
• Fear to appear unprofessional.
• Keeping a blog going.
• How to write a blog post?! How often? About what? How to promote it?
• Questions around legal issues such as copyright, intellectual property, libel law, institutional guidelines....
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ReferencesBrookfield, S. (2005) Becoming a critically reflective teacher, abriged in Oxford Brookes University
RADAR collection [Online] at https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/e646a903-79ca-7312-51f0-b0360a77c0b8/1/index.html
'Science has the answer' by Dr Heather Doran: http://sciencehastheanswer.blogspot.co.uk/
Guardian Science Blogs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science-blogs
Plantcellbiology by Dr Anne Osterrieder: http://www.plantcellbiology.com