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Posts Tagged ‘community’

Social Networking Around Personal Health

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Last year during a presentation, I mentioned the site PatientsLikeMe as an example of a platform that allows people to share health information with others and build a learning community. I came across a paper that examined this type of social network that was interesting….Social Uses of Personal Health Information Within PatientsLikeMe, an Online Patient […]

Collaborative Writing Projects with Google

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Google Docs may be something valuable to try for our collaborative writing projects.  Watch the video to learn more. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA&hl=en&fs=1] Here is more information and resources for Google Docs.

Environmental Health Community Blog?

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I think about new and innovative ways to build community with opportunities for people to share and discuss topics of interest coming out of the Environmental Health Sciences Center. One way to do that is to build a blog that has many authors/contributors. I have been creating blogs that have me as the single author. […]

Citizen Journalism

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

As I think about ways to expand the Hydroville Curricula to other audiences, such as community colleges, I also think about how to adapt it to give students technology skills that will help them in their careers.  Since Hydroville is about understanding and solving on real-life enviromental health problems in the community, it seems a worthwhile assignment would […]