Using blogs and wikis in a graduate public health course

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-32

  Cobus, Laura ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; Graduate students; Information literacy; Public health; Web 2.0; Wiki

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMPUTER LITERACY; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 61649128610     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02763860802615922     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. O'Reilly, T. "What is Web 2.0." Available: . Accessed: June 14, 2007.
2. Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. "Introducing Web 2.0: Social Networking and Social Bookmarking for Health Librarians."/ Can Health LibrAssoc 27, no. 3 (2006): 65-7.
3. Boulos, M.N.K.; Maramba, I.; and Wheeler, S. "Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts: A New Generation of Web-based Tools for Virtual Collaborative Clinical Practice and Education." BMC Med Ednc 6, no. 41 (2006): 1472.
4. Boulos, M.N.K., and Wheeler, S. "The Emerging Web 2.0 Social Software: An Enabling Suite of Sociable Technologies in Health and Health Care Education." Health Info LibrJ 24, no. 1 (2007): 2-23.
5. Barsky, E. "Introducing Web 2.0: RSS Trends For Health Librarians." / Can Health LibrAssoc 27, no. 1 (2006): 7-8.
6. Barsky, E. "Introducing Web 2.0: Weblogs and Podcasting for Health Librarians."/ Can Health Libr Assoc 27 no. 2 (2006): 33-4.
7. Atreja, A.; Messinger-Rapport, B.; Jain, A.; and Melita, N. "Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Develop a Resource for Evidence Based Medicine." AMIA Annu Symp Proc (2006): 847.
8. Connor, E. "Medical Librarian 2.0." Med Ref Serv Q 26, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 1-15.
9. Giustini, D. "How Web 2.0 Is Changing Medicine." BMJ 333, no. 7582 (2006): 1283-4.
10. McLean, R.; Richards, B.H.; and Wardman, J.I. "The Effect of Web 2.0 on the Future of Medical Practice and Education: Darwikinían Evolution or Folksonomic Revolution?" Med J Aust 187, no. 3 (2007): 174-7.
11. Murray, K.K. "Mass Spectrometry and Web 2.0." J Mass Spectrom 42, no. 10 (2007): 1263-71.
12. Murray, P. "Refractions. Will Web 2.0 Plus Healthcare Informatics Equal Health Care Informatics 2.0?" Br ] Healthc Compnt Inf Manage 23, no. 3 (2006): 12.
13. Sandars, J., and Schroter, S. "Web 2.0 Technologies for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education: An Online Survey." Postgrad Med J 83, no. 986 (2007): 759-62.
14. Sandars, J., and Haythornthwaite, C. "New Horizons for E-Learning in Medical Education: Ecological and Web 2.0 Perspectives." Med Teach 29, no. 4 (2007): 307-10.
15. Santoro, E. "Podcasts, Wikis, and Blogs: The Web 2.0 Tools For Medical and Health Education." Recent Prog Med 98, no. 10 (2007): 484-94.
16. Skiba, D.J. "Emerging Technologies Center. Nursing Education 2.0: Poke Me." Nurs Educ Perspect 28, no. 4 (2007): 214-6.
17. Skiba, D.J. "Emerging Technologies Center. Web 2.0: Next Great Thing or Just Marketing Hype?" Nurs Educ Perspect 27, no. 4 (2006): 212-4.
18. Skiba, D.J. "Emerging Technologies Center. Do Your Students Wiki?" Nurs Educ Perspect 26, no. 2 (2005): 120-1.
19. Skiba, D.J. "Nursing Education 2.0: Are Mashups Useful For Nursing Education?" Nurs Educ Perspect 28, no. 5 (2007): 286-8.
20. Stephens, M. "Patchwork. Five Web 2.0 Technologies For Hospital Librarians." JHospLibrl, no. 2 (2007): 103-9.
21. Adams, S.A. "Using Blogging Tools To Help Individuals Record Their Experiences: An Exploration and Review of Two Commercial Web Applications in the Netherlands." Stud Health Technol Inform 130 (2007): 193-203.
22. Barsky, E., and Giustini, D. "Introducing Web 2.0: Wikis for Health Librarians."/ Can Health Lïbr Assoc 28, no. 4 (2007): 146.
23. Sifry, D. "The State of the Live Web, April 2007." Available: . Accessed: February 12, 2008
24. Rainie, L. "The State of Blogging." Available: . Accessed: February 12, 2008.
25. Lenhart, A., and Fox, S. "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers." Available: . Accessed: July 29, 2008
26. Deitering, A., and Bridgewater, R. "Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Using Wikis for Professional Knowledge Sharing." j of Web Libr 1, no. 1 (2007): 27.
27. Godwin, P. "Information Literacy and the Internet Generation." Libr & Infor Update 6, no. 3 (2007): 36-9.
28. Wikipedia. "Wikipedia: Size of Wikipeciia." Available: . Accessed: February 12, 2008.
29. Rainie, L. "Wikipedia Users." Available: . Accessed: February 12, 2008.
30. Cohen, N. "A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as Research Source." The New York Times (2007). Available: . Accessed: February 12, 2008.
31. Giles, J. "Special Report: Internet Encyclopedias Go Head to Head." Nature 438, no. 5 (2005): 900.
32. McDermott, I.E. "Internet Express. All A-Twitter about Web 2.0: What Does It Offer Libraries?" Searcher 15, no. 9 (2007): 34.
33. 33- Liesegang, T.J. "Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Physician Learning 2.0." Opthalmology 114, no. 10 (2007): 1801.
34. Bonniface, L., and Green, L. "Finding a New Kind of Knowledge on the Heartnet Web site." Health Info LibrJ 24 (Suppl 1, 2007): 67-76.
35. Eysenbach, G. "From Intermediation to Disintermediation and Apomediation: New Models for Consumers to Access and Assess the Credibility of Health Information in the Age of Web 2.0." Medinfo 129, no. 1 (2007): 162-6.
36. Fox, S. "Reports: Health." Available: . Accessed: February 12, 2008
37. Zimmerman, R.K.; Wolfe, R.M.; Fox, D.E., et al. "Vaccine Criticism on the World Wide Web."/Med Internet Res 7, no. 2 (2005): e17.
38. United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; 2000.
39. Institute of Medicine. Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21 st Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.
40. Cobus, L. "Integrating Information Literacy into the Education of Public Health Professionals: Roles for Librarians and the Library." / Med libr Assoc 96, no. 1 (January 2008): 28-33.
41. Wolfe, R.M., and Sharp, L.K. "Vaccination or Immunization? The Impact of Search Terms on the Internet." J Health Commiin 10, no. 6 (2005): 537-51.
42. Simmons, M.H. "Librarians as Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory to Move Toward Critical Information Literacy." Portal: Libr Acad 5, no. 3 (2005): 297-311.
43. American Library Association. Presidential Committee on Information literacy. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.
44. Valenza, J.K. "Web 2.0 Meets Information Literacy: Make New Friends and Keep the Old." Access 13, no. 2 (2007): 22-7.
45. Owusu-Ansah, E.K. "Beyond Collaboration: Seeking Greater Scope and Centrality for Library Instruction." portal: libr Acad 7, no. 4 (2007): 415-29.
46. Williams, G. "Unclear on the Context: Refocusing on Information Literacy's Evaluative Component in the Age of Google." Library Philosophy and Practice 9, no. 2 (June 2007). Available: . Accessed: September 24, 2008.
47. Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. "Evaluating Internet Information." Available: . Accessed: April 21, 2008.
48. Engstrom, M.E., and Jewett, D. "Collaborative Learning the Wiki Way." TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning 49, no. 6 (2005): 12.
49. Godwin, P. "Information Literacy in the Age of Amateurs." Innovations in Teaching & Learning in Information & Computer Sciences 5, no. 4 (2006): 265-84.
50. Ramos, M., and Piper, P.S. "Letting the Grass Grow: Grassroots Information on Blogs and Wíkis." Ref Sew Rev 34, no. 4 (2006): 570-4.