Using social networking for eMentoring
Image: 'mentor'
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Sarah Stewart
http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com
• Realities of life for health professionals
• One attempt to ‘fix’ problems
• Why this didn’t work
• How social networking can be used for ementoring
Image: 'Midwife taking stock' www.flickr.com/photos/68319844@N00/446270854
Image: 'No Known Restrictions: The Doctor (LOC)'
www.flickr.com/photos/39735679@N00/434456122
Image: 'Amy in Labor'
www.flickr.com/photos/26667277@N00/311398700
Image: 'Time* Ticking away...' www.flickr.com/photos/15734079@N00/1032525361
Image: 'Justice' www.flickr.com/photos/61304380@N00/352842329
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hot%20nurses&w=49101424%40N00
Global shortage of health staff
Image: 'Worry' www.flickr.com/photos/95572727@N00/177496023
Geographical & professional isolation
Rural practitioners
Image: 'elephant talk' www.flickr.com/photos/47968145@N00/325235488
Mentoring: strategy for recruitment & retention, & life-long learning
Barriers to face-to-face mentoring
Time
Geographical isolation
Scarcity of suitable mentors
Funding
Flexibility
Image: 'IMG_8118' www.flickr.com/photos/18374272@N00/183503927
Advantages of computer-mediated communication (CMC)
Time to reflect
Reduces isolation
Increases access to mentors
Image: 'After 5 days of processing in a 10 day index build ‘www.flickr.com/photos/44124477712@N01/19954330
Image: 'Clowning Around'
www.flickr.com/photos/42921300@N00/264814182
Improves skills
Challenges thinking
Increases access
Sharing
Time flexibility
Image: 'Ali and Carmen' www.flickr.com/photos/97445131@N00/263974150
Attitudes to learning
Attitudes about time
SkillsPrivacy
Attitudes about CMC
Resources
Image: 'The Key of my mind...' www.flickr.com/photos/44532984@N00/755378645
Not motivation…ownership
Downes, 2007
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