Blogs

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Blogs and the Net Generation
Medical Academic Education Unit School of Medicine

• John Sandars Senior Lecturer
• j.e.sandars_at_leeds.ac.uk

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• What are blogs?
• Why should we be interested?
• How are young people using them?

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Blog is a type of website where entries are
made (such as in a journal or diary), displayed
in a reverse chronological order.
http//en.wikipedia.org/
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Typical Blog Title main title, or
headline, of the post Body main content of
the post Permalink URL of the full,
individual article Post Date date and time of
the post Comments Categories (or tags)
Trackbacks links to other sites that refer
to the entry
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http//www.lemony.co.uk/weblog/
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Things are changing! The Neaten

• The Net Generation
• Demographic revolution meets the digital
  revolution
• Learn, work,
  play and shop differently
• Digital
  natives / Digital immigrants

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Creating a blog its incredibly easy! Blogger
Free www.blogger.com
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Finding a blog - Blog search engines Bloglines
http//www.bloglines.com/ Google Blog
Search http//blogsearch.google.com/ Technorati
http//www.technorati.com/
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Blogs

• Read
• Write
• Course page
• Individual Journal / E portfolio / File store
• Collective space
• Interact

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http//blog.bioethics.net/ http//blog.bioethics.n
et/ http//www.docnotes.com/ http//www.docnotes.
com/
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First-year undergraduate students in the first
semester

230 medical students 2006
 
197 medical students 80 psychology students
(Sandars Morrison 2005)
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How are young people using blogs?