- Introductions
- What is social media?
- How can social media be used in medical education?
- Breakout groups:
- Debate or Q&A
- Wrap up & Closing
Station 1: Twitter
- Learn how twitter functions through use of an account created for the group
- How to use twitter directories to select accounts to 'follow' related to medicine and medical education
- Gain understanding of how to shorten urls and other common twitter functions (retweet, hashtag, trending topics, twitter lists)
- Review privacy settings and changing options for notifications
- Post live tweets from the workshop using the medical education hashtag
Station 2: Wikis
- Learn terminology and basic functions of a wiki
- Explore structure, navigation of a wiki
- Experience real time collaboration with stations 1, 3 and 4
- Collaborate, compose and publish a page on a wiki
- Review privacy settings, sharing options and member management
Station 3: Podcasting
- Learn elements of audio recording, editing, and posting
- Learn basics of iTunes submission, tagging, and syndication
- Record, edit, publish, and syndicate a podcast episode
Station 4: Blogging
- Explore structure, navigation of a blog
- Compose and publish a post to the blog
- Review options for privacy settings