Beyond the Garden Wall: Using Wordpress to support teaching and learning.
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The document discusses using WordPress to support teaching and learning beyond traditional virtual learning environments. It provides examples of medical schools and universities using WordPress blogs for teaching purposes. Student response was positive, with thousands of hits on the blogs during teaching blocks. Students engaged with cases, images, and assessments on the blogs and wanted more of this type of supplementary content. There are plans to further develop and evaluate the use of WordPress blogs to deliver educational content in a more open and accessible way compared to traditional learning management systems.
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Beyond the Garden Wall: Using Wordpress to support teaching and learning.
- 1. Beyond the Garden Wall Using Wordpress to support teaching & learning Natalie Lafferty
- 13. University Mary Washington Blogs
- 14. UMW - Digital Storytelling Course
- 16. “ Edupunk - an approach to teaching and learning practices that result from a do-it-yourself (DIY) attitude. Many instructional applications can be described as DIY education or Edupunk. It describes inventive teaching and inventive learning.”
- 21. Student Response 6,000 hits on DundeeChest by the end of the 4 week teaching block 78% would like other blocks to have a blog Over 60% wanted to see additional posts over the coming months
- 24. Student Response Over 2,000 hits during 4 week block Most popular features, case, x-ray and bones of the week Students wanted more cases and ‘test yersel’ posts Students visiting/reading via Blackboard, Dundeeblogs, Google, RSS, email, mobile devices
- 26. Future plans Self-hosting in the Medical School More formal pilots and evaluations Retain educational focus - more cases of the week and formative assessment Aggregate the content into a front page for each year group
- 27. Thank you Natalie Lafferty Email - [email_address] Twitter - nlafferty Blogs - http://dundeemeded.wordpress.com / http://mededelearning.wordpress.com /