overview
This week
- Refresh - your cloud knowledge, please make sure you check out our pages "The Cloud" and Market as well as Week 5's site if you need more of a refresher
- Explore - the cloud as it relates to education in the medical field
- Activities - there are a few informal/optional activities found through the site. The main activity centers around solving a problem with your group from Assignment 2. See below for an introduction to this main activity. In the cloud you will have a group discussion space to collaborate in and draft a solution. Your group will post their solution to our site blog rather than the class blog. Finally, there is a quick survey to complete individually. The survey examines your experiences working in the different cloud environments.
- Precis - check back at the end of the week for our observations, reflections and further contemplations, after spirited discussion and presentation of your novel solutions...
Problem
Here is the problem that you will be looking at with your group from Assignment 2 in your group discussion space:
We understand that the medical education field may not be familiar to everyone, that's okay! We are here to discuss, explore and experience different areas. In the workplace we are often thrown into projects that are unfamiliar and this attempts to mimic just that.
Here is a resource that may help generate some areas of discussion for your assessment tool:
How to Improve Healthcare with Cloud Computing
Here is a resource that may help generate some areas of discussion for your assessment tool:
How to Improve Healthcare with Cloud Computing
UTILIZING TOOLS for group work: Please read
For your various groups, you will see that different tools and platforms have been set up for you to display your response to the problem above.
For those using Padlet, please note that there are significant limitations to the public Padlet, in the sense that we have no control over deleting posts, nor do you, and it is particularly useful to use the platform to post your group's results, rather then using it as a brainstorming board. We highly suggest that you utilize a Google Doc, it has a little more privacy, more editing capabilities and an ability to host comments and varying levels of discussion for which can be responded to and deleted as necessary.
We wanted to present various tools for this assignment to allow you to experience something " a little different" as well as experience new opportunities within the cloud. It is through these experiences that we discover:
For those using Padlet, please note that there are significant limitations to the public Padlet, in the sense that we have no control over deleting posts, nor do you, and it is particularly useful to use the platform to post your group's results, rather then using it as a brainstorming board. We highly suggest that you utilize a Google Doc, it has a little more privacy, more editing capabilities and an ability to host comments and varying levels of discussion for which can be responded to and deleted as necessary.
We wanted to present various tools for this assignment to allow you to experience something " a little different" as well as experience new opportunities within the cloud. It is through these experiences that we discover:
- what works for us and what doesn't
- barriers, limitations and challenges to certain programs
- benefits, customization opportunities and tools that best fit our ed tech needs
opportunity to explore collaborative learning opportunities with our peers