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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)
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
