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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
Where are you?
Have you already started blogging and want to know more?
OR
No idea about blogging .....but ...Curious?
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
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
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
PhD blogginghttp://sciencehastheanswer.blogspot.co.uk
Curating information
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....
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