So it seems that even those who enjoy blogging can have a bit of a lag in posts. This weekend was a slightly different weekend from most as I found out I had actually passed my exams. I had had the fear for the entire week leading up to results and finding out they had been released at the beginning of Friday's session was probably one of the worst scenarios as it left almost a 2 hour window where we had agreed not to check (longest 2 hours of my life). But I'm back now realising passing the exams and OSCEs means nothing if I don't pass this SSC so back to blogging I go.
Turns out it's normally around the 18 month mark people tend to give up their blogs, or at least lose interest. There seems to be a couple of theories around this, one of which being that people start blogs with the intention of getting them out there and well recognised and possibly making money off of them, but unfortunately that's not something that happens with all blogs, and I guess 18 months must be that point where it feels like you've dedicated quite a lot of time to it and reaped no rewards. I mean I think that it's a pretty similar length of time to getting pregnant, having the baby and then the maternity leave altogether, but I mean you don't expect to have a fully functioning human being by the age of 9 months, it's something that is constant and the baby is constantly growing just like your blog if you just keep working at it.
The presentations on Friday were great, Grace's, like my own seemed to focus on the actual principles of designing an e-learning resource, whereas Adeeb, Eric and Lukman's presentations focused more on the global introduction of technology into education. All the presentations together I felt gave us all a good idea as to both the advances in technology used in education and also the limitless possibilities for education in the future.
I took a lot from Grace's presentation in order to answer these questions. It was mentioned that reems of text aren't really the best method of getting important information and that worried me, because at points there is quite a lot of text in my learning resource. However, when I had a think about it I realised that this text was actually further information. I had to think about what my learning resource was trying to teach exactly and how it was trying to teach it, and rather than being a source of the scientific information or a source of answers it is a source that is supposed to enable you to make the correct choice in a situation. It then provides answers and explanations for those that need them and want to know why a certain answer is incorrect, but generally speaking it is more a run through of a scenario that should enable a person to act safely and efficiently in a ward scenario.
Third Year Medical Student
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