Hello all, I haven't updated this for this some time, but I have been thinking a lot about the digital stories and how everyone is getting on with this process.
Alex and I had a paper accepted for a Health Practice Education conference in Edinburgh in March. As our presentation is about 'MINE' and how we've used web 2.0 approaches, I think we've decided to present it as a digital story. So I've set about trying to write a digital story of MINE too - Alex seems to be adopting a behaviourist approach and letting me 'learn by doing', as for me it is most definitely a process of trial and error! Should we have resorted to our more comfortable roles I would be doing the reflective bit and he would be doing the techie bit - perhaps that in itself should be part of our story.
So just to share where I've got to so far - which has been quite a bit of thinking and a very small amount of doing. For me there seems to be two parts, the practical making of a digital representation of what happened in MINE - but I think this is preceeded to some extent by the other part which is the reflective account that will accompany it
I found I have returned to what I did in preparation for MINE, the delight in the bid being successful, sharing ideas with partners, all the preparation work, and how that impacted on the actual event. I have also asked myself why I pursued this in the first place.
I have looked again at the blogs, and these are a great resource and have prompted lots of thoughts about what we learnt during the two weeks, and the processes that underpinned that learning. At this point I jumped back to the visual bit of the process and thought about what photos, and video clips I could use to support or illustrate this learning.
I have found the following website quite helpful, http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/. It did talk a bit about historical aspects of stories, and whilst initially I wasn't sure how useful this might be, I did realise that it was very relevant, as many of own nursing practice learning expereinces (good and not so good) - have certainly shaped the type of teacher I have become today. It does give examples of stories from different disciplines as well as practical tips etc.
As well as the theoretical components, the whole Erasmus 'learning in all contexts' is a huge part of the IP, and the social, cultural, and friendship aspects were quite phenomenal. These are also very evident in the blogs and the dv's!,
This is very much a work in progress and I will keep you informed of any future crises or breakthrough's. There is a dv on the aforementioned website on making a digitalstory. It finishes with Dorothy, in Oz, clicking her heels and saying 'I want to go home' quite an apt end I thought as most people at the end of the IP didn't seem quite ready to...
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Sunday, 7 February 2010
What an amazing week it was !
It actually feels like a lot longer than a week since we all met at Archway. Perhaps that is because everyone mixed and bonded with such ease that it feels like a group that has been together for a very long time. Being somebody who loves a bit of underpinning theory, you could say that in 'group theory stages' we have easily moved through forming, norming and are most definitely storming at the moment !
I think we need to explore the impact that facebook has had on the cohesion of this group, Alex is really keen to follow this up, and we will be pursuing this a little with you.
Lots of comments on cultural differences have emerged, all hugely positively, but highlighting our practice differences, nursing regulatory and curricula differences but even so the amazing compatability when we explore how we feel and what we value about nursing and learning to nurse.
The blogs are really interesting, and there is a vast amount of work and qaulitative feedback within them. I think some of us have found them challenging - but a welcome challmege on the whole. The need to meet students on their own ground, and communicate in ways that they feel comfortable with is important - it did try and theorise it and you could argue the use of web 2.0 approaches is a humanistic one, where the student and teacher meet on an equal level, and both learn ! As eariler we really need to follow up the eduational value of these - are they useful because they are critically reflective, because they encouage communication, as students have to write and articulate - even if it is not refelctive, or perhaps becuase knowing that others will read what they have written they give it more care ? Lots of thoughts no answers yet, but hopefully you'll be contributing to this debate later in the week.
I did have one further question on the blogs - should students write them academcially, or rather with complete grammar and syntax, or should txt language be allowed ?
Overall, this does seem to be providing everyone with what I would consider to be a true Erasmus expereinces, one where there is learning in all contexts, social, cultural, emotional, cognate - there is so much wonderful evidence of this already.
For next week we need to think about what will go into our toolkits and be presented at the student conference.
Some thoughts from what I've read are:
How does web 2.0 feature both in future student toolkits, and how will it be used in the conference ?
Should we be telling students about specific aspects of 'survival' in their exchange countries, eg: giving specific directions or letting them experiment - directions and tube maps vs instinct !
How much country specific in the toolkit, and how, by dv ?
What about practical issues such as occupational health clearance and MRSA swabs ?
How will learning theories, the concept of mentorship and practice assessment be included ?
We have groups of students and groups of mentors, but each country also has an academic as part of their team - how do the academics contribute ?
We aimed to use co-operative inquiry as our approach to MINE, is it working ?
Looking forward to seeing you all tommorrow !
It actually feels like a lot longer than a week since we all met at Archway. Perhaps that is because everyone mixed and bonded with such ease that it feels like a group that has been together for a very long time. Being somebody who loves a bit of underpinning theory, you could say that in 'group theory stages' we have easily moved through forming, norming and are most definitely storming at the moment !
I think we need to explore the impact that facebook has had on the cohesion of this group, Alex is really keen to follow this up, and we will be pursuing this a little with you.
Lots of comments on cultural differences have emerged, all hugely positively, but highlighting our practice differences, nursing regulatory and curricula differences but even so the amazing compatability when we explore how we feel and what we value about nursing and learning to nurse.
The blogs are really interesting, and there is a vast amount of work and qaulitative feedback within them. I think some of us have found them challenging - but a welcome challmege on the whole. The need to meet students on their own ground, and communicate in ways that they feel comfortable with is important - it did try and theorise it and you could argue the use of web 2.0 approaches is a humanistic one, where the student and teacher meet on an equal level, and both learn ! As eariler we really need to follow up the eduational value of these - are they useful because they are critically reflective, because they encouage communication, as students have to write and articulate - even if it is not refelctive, or perhaps becuase knowing that others will read what they have written they give it more care ? Lots of thoughts no answers yet, but hopefully you'll be contributing to this debate later in the week.
I did have one further question on the blogs - should students write them academcially, or rather with complete grammar and syntax, or should txt language be allowed ?
Overall, this does seem to be providing everyone with what I would consider to be a true Erasmus expereinces, one where there is learning in all contexts, social, cultural, emotional, cognate - there is so much wonderful evidence of this already.
For next week we need to think about what will go into our toolkits and be presented at the student conference.
Some thoughts from what I've read are:
How does web 2.0 feature both in future student toolkits, and how will it be used in the conference ?
Should we be telling students about specific aspects of 'survival' in their exchange countries, eg: giving specific directions or letting them experiment - directions and tube maps vs instinct !
How much country specific in the toolkit, and how, by dv ?
What about practical issues such as occupational health clearance and MRSA swabs ?
How will learning theories, the concept of mentorship and practice assessment be included ?
We have groups of students and groups of mentors, but each country also has an academic as part of their team - how do the academics contribute ?
We aimed to use co-operative inquiry as our approach to MINE, is it working ?
Looking forward to seeing you all tommorrow !
Friday, 5 February 2010
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