Medicine 2.0 Workshop – Group 1 (Difficult)For the next 40 minutes or so, I’d like you to do two things:1.Learn a web 2.0 ‘competency’2.Report back to the group on this experience and how useful you think the skillis, personally and professionally1. Competency 1 – Create a medical / F2 WeblogYou don’t need Elsevier, the BMJ, or a hospital journal club to publish your thoughtson medicine, research, or being a junior doctor – you can do it yourself in a matter of minutes. So take half an hour, in pairs or 3s, to create a blog. We’ll use Google’sblogging tool – Blogger.
1.
Familiarise yourself with what a blog should look like – take a look atnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com,www.nhs.uk/News/Pages/NewsArticles.aspx, or
www.neatorama.com.If you’re really stuck trycolinsmededblog.blogspot.com
Note that most blog posts contain at least one link word that, if you click on it,takes you to a primary or related source.
2.
3.
Click on
Create your blog now
4.Create a Google account if you don’t have one already
5.
Create your blog – enter a name and web address then click on
Continue
6.
Choose a design you like, then click on
Continue
7.Start bloggingStep 6 is obviously a little more complicated than that. But it isn’t too tricky. To createa new post, just type in some text in the Posting box, then try to include a link tosomething.To create a link:1.Select the word in your post that you want to turn into a link
2.
Click the
Link
button in the Posting box (a little world with a chain on top)
3.
Enter the web address you want that word to link to (eg www.google.com)
4.Don’t worry about posting something earth-shattering – Group 2 will provideyou with a god topic and some learned opinion.Now post your comment to your blog by clicking on
Publish Post
.To view your blog at any time, click on the
View Blog
link at the top right of blogger.You can change the way it looks by using the
Layout
tab.2. What did you do, and could it be useful?In the remaining time, get together as a group and compare your experiences andthoughts about creating a weblog. Choose one or more people to present a 5 minutefeedback session explaining roughly what you did, and what your group thought of the process and its potential value. Don’t be afraid to be controversial – if someone inthe group thinks blogs are pointless, explain why.
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