tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post1596552502680363887..comments2024-03-27T03:58:43.402-04:00Comments on <center>CasesBlog - Medical and Health Blog</center>: 25% of medical students use Facebook for education - with mixed successUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-59483920892960937582011-03-02T10:13:35.163-05:002011-03-02T10:13:35.163-05:00Because they are exposed.Because they are exposed.Denise Vanessahttp://shows.thetvstream.info/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-50650416293586370232011-02-28T21:21:31.202-05:002011-02-28T21:21:31.202-05:00Nice one, but again, who uses Facebook for medical...Nice one, but again, who uses Facebook for medical education? <br /><br />Very few, would be my guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-44968107069287340422011-02-28T21:07:59.910-05:002011-02-28T21:07:59.910-05:00Blogs are best for medical education:
- you can e...Blogs are best for medical education:<br /><br />- you can expand beyond 140 characters<br /><br />- there are no constraints on the format as is the case with Facebook<br /><br />- you can embed videos - just try this with Twitter<br /><br />- your blog is your own, it does not belong to Facebook<br /><br />- you can actually track the conversation on a blog with open comments - much better than the scattered approach to replies employed by TwitterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-25945250496611527432011-02-28T09:56:20.591-05:002011-02-28T09:56:20.591-05:00Facebook "doesn't embrace the whole web&q...Facebook "doesn't embrace the whole web" but many people never leave Facebook. They read updates there, watch videos, see photos, and blog, yes, they blog daily inside the service.<br /><br />You have to try to reach learners where they are, and they are on Facebook as of now. Where they will in 2014 nobody knows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-31611349632168926462011-02-28T09:47:22.971-05:002011-02-28T09:47:22.971-05:00"university students are interested and activ..."university students are interested and active in supporting their learning by using Facebook"<br /><br />facebook as an educational environment? "education related reasons" includes also chatting on FB with a classmate? I would not stretch too much the "facebook obsession". Certainly FB is a tool. It can be used for sure also for educational purposes. But facebook doesn't embrace the whole web, especially when it comes to academic resources. <br /><br />Puzzled.medgeekhttp://medicalpills.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com