Using social media for mentoring, community development & education Sarah Stewart nnnnn EDNA Brisbane 2009 http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com www.flickr.com/photos/27315689@N00/749317332

eMentoring www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/510908795

Aged Care Queensland eMentoring project Jan. – July 2009 Connecting experienced staff with less experienced staff using online communication www.flickr.com/photos/43345322@N00/379997873

Aged Care Queensland eMentoring project Jan. – July 2009

Connecting experienced staff with less experienced staff using online communication

Aiming to reach staff in rural & remote areas, allied health, indigenous & Torres Strait people Barriers: time, finance, lack of Internet access www.flickr.com/photos/37882873@N00/2868315258

Aiming to reach staff in rural & remote areas, allied health, indigenous & Torres Strait people

Barriers: time, finance, lack of Internet access

Face to face & online mentoring workshops eMentoring handbook/CD ROM Acknowledgements: Dept. Health and Aging Community Gambling Benefit Fund

Face to face & online mentoring workshops

eMentoring handbook/CD ROM

Acknowledgements:

Dept. Health and Aging

Community Gambling Benefit Fund

Community blogging http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503019876@N01/1804295568

Can use blogs to disseminate information, encourage interaction & connectivity, build local community & wider networks Barriers: computer skills, concern about security of information & personal identity, perception that online information is ‘rubbish’

Can use blogs to disseminate information, encourage interaction & connectivity, build local community & wider networks

Barriers: computer skills, concern about security of information & personal identity, perception that online information is ‘rubbish’

http:// docs.google.com/Doc?id =dcr62szf_8cs4jhzfs Chinchilla 16 th May 10am-3pm

International Day of the Midwife May 5 th 2009 http://onlineprofessionaldevelopment.wikispaces.com/International+Day+of+the+Midwife+2009

Using variety of online communication tools to connect midwives all over the world All involved are volunteers Using wiki to organise activities Non-midwives volunteered to help support the event-power of the network

Using variety of online communication tools to connect midwives all over the world

All involved are volunteers

Using wiki to organise activities

Non-midwives volunteered to help support the event-power of the network

Second Life-virtual birthing unit

SLENZ: http://slenz.wordpress.com

Using Second Life to provide education

Using Second Life to provide education

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kowhai/82/213/35/

Creative Commons All resources are free to share & all development work shared in open environments like blogs

All resources are free to share & all development work shared in open environments like blogs

Development work carried out using tools such as blogs, wikis & Google Docs.

Development work carried out using tools such as blogs, wikis & Google Docs.

http:// wikieducator.org/The_virtual_birthing_unit_project

Lessons plans & learning objects developed using other online tools so people who cannot access Second Life can still participate in some way

Lessons plans & learning objects developed using other online tools so people who cannot access Second Life can still participate in some way

http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/search/label/second%20life

http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/search/label/second%20life