Over the past few weeks, our team has been keeping up with a website about smoking. We have been able to post various articles and vlogs about topics that interested us related to smoking. We had created a schedule to post and reply to other team posts.
I enjoyed researching and talking about smoking. This is a big thing that will be talked about with clients all throughout our career. Although we do a lot of learning in school about smoking and the effects on the mouth, I enjoyed researching other topics and expanding my learning. This has made me more confident and ready to speak about smoking, vaping, use of marijuana and hookah. Recording the vlog has allowed me to practice speaking, and be more confident when speaking about the topic.
During this assignment, we were posting as if we were teaching others about this topic. This had made me excited to explore and find resources to make my topic memorable to the learner. I made sure to find great articles that I could apply to my posts and had furthered my learning in picking out valid articles. This also had taught me to set my article and vlog up in a way that would attract the reader. I wanted them to be interested in reading or listening more.
Being able to vlog a learning topic was quite different. We have done our outreach assignment where we are teaching a live class, but I have rarely had to record myself vlogging about a situation. This made it interesting to learn how to talk to myself and not a group of people. This assignment has taught me how to speak more confidently about smoking and different effects it has.
Overall, this assignment has given me an opportunity to educate others about smoking. It has let me explore topics I had enjoyed and wanted to explore more about. This project taught me how to advocate for the smoking population and be able to have in depth conversations with them about various topics in the future.
LINK TO OUR BLOG: https://smokingandoralhealth.blogspot.com/