Ethics assignment Reflective blogging in the Professional Ethics for Physiotherapy module.

Ethics assignment

Reflective blogging in theProfessional Ethics for

Physiotherapymodule

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/1472-6920/6/41

Blogging as academic publication (http://bit.ly/ijMAs)

Instructions

Go to www.mrowe.co.za/physioblog

Blog title

Sidebar with information

Meta link to Site Admini.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 editingi.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 commentAll comments will be moderated

Comment as it appears on the blog

Reply to commentClick 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 blogAlso 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 blogWithout 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 Firefox

http://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