Ethics assignment Reflective blogging in the Professional Ethics
Ethics assignment Reflective blogging in the Professional Ethics for Physiotherapy module
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
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
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
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
Preparatory reading Wikis, blogs and podcasts (background information)http: //www. biomedcentral. com/14726920/6/41 Blogging as academic publication (http: //bit. ly/ij. MAs)
Instructions Go to www. mrowe. co. za/physioblog
Blog title
Sidebar with information
Meta link to Site Admin i. e. where you go to edit your reflections
Pages with extra information
Dashboard
Quickly posting a blog entry
Enter your post
Post published
More comprehensive editing i. e. not using Quickpress
Editing a post
Adding text
Saving / publishing
Viewing your post
The published post
Commenting on other posts
Comment form
Add and submit your comment All comments will be moderated
Comment as it appears on the blog
Reply to comment Click on the “Reply” link
Turbo (optional install) On “Dashboard” page
Turbo install page
Installing Turbo Note: This image shows a Linux install. Yours will say “Windows” under the Install Gears button
Accept Terms and conditions
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
Enable Gears
Subscribing to the blog Also optional
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
Alternative ways to blog Without 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
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. . .
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
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