Happy Summer!

Last student comments to the blogs of Elaine and Regina! I hope that everyone enjoys the rest of their summer!!!!!

Foundations Final: Tablet-Based Collaborative Learning

Unfortunately, the Blogger video capabilities are lacking.

I posted it in 1080p at the 'appellation' website that I emailed to you all yesterday afternoon.

Its much better there!

Last Blog of the Semester

Last week's non-traditional barrage of wiki postings, as a final exam, was both new and illuminating. After eight days of blogging in a collaborative posting, our semester's authors have received at least their 15 minutes of fame.

I have blogged, argued, illustrated, and dissected collaborative medical learning and its implications, or rather its lack of complications, throughout this summer. By no means should this suggest it to be a perfect science, pardon the pun, but rather, simply, to suggest that it may be slightly more organized than collaborative freshman composition exercises. Student maturity, experience, and general acumen may be the reason. However, for a last post, I wanted to highlight clinician to patient collaborative learning.

A 2008 article by Martinez-Sarriegui et al. in Spain, illuminates a "shared care" (1) system that allows patients to log-on and perform the following tasks:

1. upload blood sugar readings and receive physician-lead medical support,

2. mentor new patients/be mentored to,

3. participate in group support,

4. change appointments,

5. chat about questions and other related interests.

Their conclusion is that "patient intervention for data retrieval and communication" are optimized (17). It sounds wonderful; however, the interesting part is that this is based on 'pre-iPad' technologies!!!! Telemedicine is looking even brighter!

Staying Organized

Blogging/wiki final for Mon. 25th through Monday Aug. 1st:

Final wiki posts: #9

Additional comments: #9

Citation Info: #2