What a difference


02 March 2006: “The final comments were about mecahnisms for involving nurses from a variety of backgrounds in C4H projects were discussed including a suggestion from Stuart Glendinning Hall of running a blog – but it was suggested many nurses would not be able to access this.”

20 March 2007: “The first speaker was Janette Bennett, Senior Clinical Advisor with the BT Health Executive;…There need to be radical changes to the ways of working (eg virtual support services), and these have radical implications for the nature of education needs. She sees possibilities for new online environments, such as MySpace, for modelling new ways of working, learning and thinking. Underlying infrastructures, rather than technologies, she suggests, are what provide the real boundaries to be addressed.”

Mash-up model for education


http://blog.odeworld.co.uk/

This website claims a new web2 model called ‘Mash Up’ – where content is added by users and also users have their own playlists – it seems a cool idea for education.

But will it succeed?

The chicken-and-egg of it is that to succeed loads of companies need to offer content but they’re not likely to bother until it’s successful <?>.