5. The following is available
Learning Edge
which is a suite of tools that you can access 24/7 to
support your learning
Access through the GO Portal
1. Access to the Virtual Learning Environment (Bb)
2. Eshare
3. My Library Tab (BOB and Lynda)
4. Mobile Learn
5. Turnitin
6. The aim of this workshop
• Is to make you aware of the technologies
available to support your learning.
• As well as gain insight into the netiquette
expected from all Edge Hill University
undergraduate student nurses.
7. So by the end of this session you will
be able to:
• Test your University E-mail by e-mailing your
personal tutor
• Test your login (Username and Password)
• Access Learning Edge
• Access My Library
• Access Blackboard
• Introduce yourself by posting a message
• Know who to contact for Help and note the no.
• (i.e. Students Help Desk 01695 650800)
11. Turnitin
Set up to enable you to self check your work to improve academic writing skills
Originality Report and Originality Score Check
12. Activity
• Find a computer on campus (anywhere)
• Log in (user name and password)
• Access E-Mail
• Post an email to your personal tutor ( introduce yourself)
• Now Access Learning Edge
• Click on the My Library Tab
• Review the Area (access the Uniskills presentations)
• Click on the Courses Tab
• Access the Programme Area
• Navigate the area
• Click on Getting to know you listed on the menu
• Complete the activity
• Post your response
27. Become part of
your community?
Online Communities
NMC strongly advises not to:
• Share confidential information online.
• Post inappropriate comments about colleagues or patients.
• Use social networking sites to bully or intimidate colleagues.
• Pursue personal relationships with patients or service users.
• Distribute sexually explicit material.
• Use social networking sites in any way which is unlawful.
30. Make use of Learning Edge
I Pledge to ACCESS MY LIBRARY TAB in LE
1. Access Uniskills to review resources
2. Review the Reference Guides
3. Learn to Reference
4. Learn to undertake a literature search
5. Add History of Nursing to the Search in
Discover More
6. Select Relevant Articles
7. READ
We like to talk to students about how they present themselves online, as this is becoming more and more important to your employability.
A lot of employers look online to find extra information about potential employees now, and most report they have made some decisions about who to employ based on what they found – whether it was a positive or a negative decision.
Some people call the information you put on line your ‘digital tattoo’ – because you cannot necessarily remove it all. Information gets copied and saved by companies who can benefit from it, other people can put information online about you too. So you have some control, but it is limited.
We’re going to talk a little bit about how you can take control of what people will find out about you online.
Example – Paris Brown UK Youth Crime Commissioner – Daily Mail – Tweets. Can happen – some papers like to bad mouth the NHS.
So that’s one side of this. The other side is presenting yourself well – e.g. LinkedIn.
First of all, have a search for your name online.
Search using a major search engine like Google, using quotation marks for the best results.
There are other search engines that are designed to help you search for people like pipl.com.
And if you really want to look deeply at your online reputation there are these other sites, but they are probably of more use to celebrities.
It is worth searching after the session, we’ve had students do this and find old photos they’d put on Myspace years ago which wouldn’t be appropriate for their new career as a teacher.
You might also want to take control of what people find when they search for you by setting up a page that you can direct people to. LinkedIn is a career focussed social networking site. You can set up what is basically an online profile/CV, and connect with other people in your area of work.
This is what your profile might look like on there.
Find a professional looking photo of yourself, and keep your activity on there work focused.
Laura has mentioned that you will be creating an ePortfolio, and this is something that you could also use to show off your learning.
Keep an eye out for online communities full of people in your profession where you can support each other.
However the NMC has a code regarding all uses of social networking sites – “The code states that nurses and midwives must "uphold the reputation of your profession at all times" (NMC 2008), while students must "uphold the reputation of your chosen profession at all times" (NMC 2009a). This means that conduct online and conduct in the real world should be judged in the same way, and should be at a similar high standard. Nurses and midwives will put their registration at risk, and students may jeopardise their ability to join our register, if they:”
The NHS have a confidentiality policy - http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/conf-policy-1.pdf - They note that “Person-identifiable information is anything that contains the means to identify a person, e.g. name, address, postcode, date of birth, NHS number, National Insurance number etc. Even a visual image (e.g. photograph) is sufficient to identify an individual. Any data or combination of data and other information, which can indirectly identify the person, will also fall into this definition. “
We use social networks to talk to our friends in the same way we’d talk to them face-to-face – but in reality we have to be more careful because online the whole world can overhear you. Lots of people have got into trouble as they have forgotten this.
Remember jokes and comments can lose their meaning online, also people on your course might not know you as well as your friends.
If you are having a discussion online – keep posts short and encourage others into the conversation.
More formal – not for sharing like Facebook
Respect – It’s about learning together, and less about winning arguments.
