Axuedu.com is an exhaustive educational portal specially designed for the students pursuing online degrees satisfies all the requirements of the students. The top listings of the universities and International Medical Schools are made available in both country-wise and continent-wise.
2. Why me?
• I am NOT a medical educator
• I am NOT a researcher
I am however passionate about the
topic and personally use social media
in all aspects of my professional and
personal life.
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3. What is Social Media?
Social media is media designed to be
disseminated through social interaction,
created using highly accessible and
scalable publishing techniques.
Social media uses Internet and web-based
technologies to transform broadcast media
monologues (one to many) into social
media dialogues (many to many).
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4. What is Social Media?
• It’s having conversations
• It’s making connections
• It’s building relationships
• It’s sharing resources and information
• It’s networking
• It’s collaborating
“Social media is the platform where
connection, conversation and collaboration
take place.”
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6. Social Media as it Relates to
Medical Education
To narrow the discussion:
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Ning
• Delicious
• Google Wave
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7. Social Media as it Relates to
Medical Education
How are these tools being used?
• Tools for communication
• Tools for sharing of information
• Tools for collaborating on projects
• Tools for connecting
• Tools for saving time
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8. Social Media as it Relates to
Medical Education
Who’s Participating?
• Institutions with faculty and students
• Institutions with the communities they serve
• Faculty with fellow colleagues
• Faculty with students
• Students with fellow peers
“Everyone!”
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9. Facebook in Medical
Education
Facebook is a social networking website that is
operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.
Users can add friends and send them messages,
and update their personal profiles to notify
friends about themselves.
Additionally, users can join networks organized by
city, workplace, and school or college. The
website's name stems from the colloquial name
of books given at the start of the academic year
by university administrations with the intention of
helping students to get to know each other
better.
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11. Facebook in Medical Education
Personal Profile
• Must be a Friend first
• Share as much or as
little as you choose
• Limited profile controls
• As a user you also
control what you see!
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13. Facebook in Medical Education
Join a Group
• Tend to be short-term
• Less participant
interaction
• Not open to public
viewing
• Less formal
Become a Fan
• Long Term relationship
• Greater methods for
communication
• Seen on Public Profile
• Scheduled Events
• More formal
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14. Facebook in Medical Education
Keyword Search:
“Medical School”
9,800 Groups / 76 Fan Pages
“Medical Education”
7,500 Groups / 63 Fan Pages
“Medical Association”
4,600 Groups / 237 Fan Pages
“E-Learning” 1,500
Groups / 127 Fan Pages
“Curriculum Development”
1,200 Groups / 4 Fan Pages
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18. Facebook in Medical Education
Is Facebook a waste of time?
It depends on how you use it!
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19. Twitter in Medical Education
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-
blogging service that enables its users to send
and read messages known as tweets.
Tweets are text-based posts of up to
140 characters displayed on the author's profile
page and delivered to the author's subscribers
who are known as followers. Senders can restrict
delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by
default, allow open access.
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20. Twitter in Medical Education
Who is using Twitter?
• Medical Schools
• Medical Libraries
• Medical School Departments
• Medical Organizations
• Medical Journals
• Faculty
• Students
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21. Twitter in Medical Education
How can Twitter be used?
• Announcements
• Helping Students to Study
• Gathering Resources
• Sharing Resources
• Promoting Activities
• Sharing Employment Opportunities
• Networking
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25. Twitter in Medical Education
Sharing of Resources
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26. Twitter in Medical Education
Is Twitter a waste of time?
It depends on how you use it and who you follow!
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27. Linkedin in Medical Education
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social
networking site.
Founded in December 2002 and launched in
May 2003, it is mainly used for professional
networking. As of October 2009, LinkedIn had
more than 50 million registered users,
spanning more than 200 countries and
territories worldwide.
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28. Linked in in Medical Education
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29. Linkedin In Medical Education
Keyword Search of Groups:
Medical Education: 213 Groups
Medical Technology: 217 Groups
E-learning: 208 Groups
Instructional Design: 61 Groups
Curriculum Development: 45 Groups
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34. Delicious in Medical Education
Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced
"delicious") is a social bookmarking web
service for storing, sharing, and discovering
web bookmarks.
The site was founded by Joshua Schachter
in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It
has more than five million users and 150
million bookmarked URLs.
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36. Google Wave in Medical
Education
Google Wave is a self-described "personal
communication and collaboration tool"
announced by Google at the Google I/O
conference on May 27, 2009.
It is a web-based service, computing
platform, and communications protocol
designed to merge e-mail, instant
messaging, wikis, and social networking.
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39. Final Thoughts
Facebook – Social, personal interactions;
become Friends and Fans
Twitter – Quick interactions with Followers
LinkedIn – Professional Networking, SIGs,
Online CV
Nings – Specialized social networks, public
or private
Googlewave – Too soon to tell!
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