mlearning project - Reminiscing work with elderly
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Sylvia Moessinger
Sep 18, 2012, 4:46:30 PM9/18/12
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Hallo everybody,
here another attempt of an mlearning project follwoing the same pattern as I did for the project about health care professions.
This mlearning project is about reminiscing work with elderly and how this project could raise awareness and understanding and tear down stereotypes that might exist towards older people. Please have a look a my draft attached or simply follow the link to my Google doc, well now Google drive .
Any comments would be more than welcome.
Sylvia
here another attempt of an mlearning project follwoing the same pattern as I did for the project about health care professions.
This mlearning project is about reminiscing work with elderly and how this project could raise awareness and understanding and tear down stereotypes that might exist towards older people. Please have a look a my draft attached or simply follow the link to my Google doc, well now Google drive .
Any comments would be more than welcome.
Sylvia
angela pierri
Sep 19, 2012, 10:25:40 AM9/19/12
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I like a lot your project, i thought a follow up could be a social communication ...the best interviews published in wiki like real biography of celebrities or photo can be used in a false Back cover...
Compliments!
Compliments!
angela
Sylvia Moessinger
Sep 19, 2012, 3:27:57 PM9/19/12
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Hallo Angela,
that sounds like a real good idea :-) Make a bestseller out of it ;-) But I can imagine, in case the ebook / wiki or a print version is well designed, will find it's readers. Digital and/or print versions could be provided to each senior citizen home which participated. The biographies could be also used as case studies for further teaching. Thus plenty of application possibilities.
Sylvia
that sounds like a real good idea :-) Make a bestseller out of it ;-) But I can imagine, in case the ebook / wiki or a print version is well designed, will find it's readers. Digital and/or print versions could be provided to each senior citizen home which participated. The biographies could be also used as case studies for further teaching. Thus plenty of application possibilities.
Sylvia
angela pierri
Sep 20, 2012, 4:22:07 AM9/20/12
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:-)
bello!
angie
Ignatia/Inge de Waard
Sep 20, 2012, 6:38:59 AM9/20/12
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hi Sylvia, adding my feedback here, to keep a project feedback overview - if possible :-)
On your health care professions/health care student interview skills mLearning project:
It is quite an extensive mLearning project, for it can be broken down in many aspects: raising student awareness on which jobs there are (job descriptions as you mention, possible witnesses on the different jobs - preferably old students - this always rings well with students and gives a good look at the quality of the school), organizing all the current jobs (makes me think of an RSS type of automation, otherwise it will be tough to keep updated), and the interviews the students themselves produce in the setting of their future preference (auto-produced, but with the potential of being used in future course runs).
I read that your health institution is not yet fully connected? It might be a good introduction to the school management to see what extra interest is generated by your project (in terms of promotion, support for getting your students into the 'real world' ...
Creating a hub is very important and from an IT point of view, you must make sure it has enough space for multiple student access at the same time (you need to make sure you engage the IT department or people from your school very early. I know from my own experience that it makes live much more easy - spoken from IT part of my job). This coincides with the problems you list. Get them in, and those problems will be decreased.
Another potential problem might be the cost to the student: streaming video can be expensive, so better put out a strategic policy that can help set out guidelines or best practices. For example, if your school has overall wifi access, ask your IT people if they can allow a student mobile access point to be created, based upon their MAC address. This will allow students to access information one's they are in school, through single click on the wifi on their phone. But saying this, it also means that you must be certain ALL students have a wifi enabled, internet accessable phone.
Than on your elderly mLearning project
ah, before I forget (remark also of importance to previous project), you mention google group as a means to organize the interviews, I do not think that is ideal. A wiki might be better, or even youtube (for videos) as this is very accessible to mobile devices (more than wikis) and it is a youth thing to visit. Or you could think about Vimeo, which is similar to Youtube, but has better security options (to make it private, or for group, or from location accessible...).
Not sure how your school is organized, or which types of skills are taught, but if you gather all those wonderful narratives from the elder, you might want to join hands with other disciplines: for editing movies... or partner up with multimedia school nearby to edit the stories (just a wild idea). Or join hands with researcher from a university nearby, that way the narratives become part of the community and can be shared through history. Or join hands with the city where your school is located to get some funding, and embed your students activity into a creative mobile project supported by the city.
... oh well... dreaming never hurt anyone :-D
Hope this helps!
On your health care professions/health care student interview skills mLearning project:
It is quite an extensive mLearning project, for it can be broken down in many aspects: raising student awareness on which jobs there are (job descriptions as you mention, possible witnesses on the different jobs - preferably old students - this always rings well with students and gives a good look at the quality of the school), organizing all the current jobs (makes me think of an RSS type of automation, otherwise it will be tough to keep updated), and the interviews the students themselves produce in the setting of their future preference (auto-produced, but with the potential of being used in future course runs).
I read that your health institution is not yet fully connected? It might be a good introduction to the school management to see what extra interest is generated by your project (in terms of promotion, support for getting your students into the 'real world' ...
Creating a hub is very important and from an IT point of view, you must make sure it has enough space for multiple student access at the same time (you need to make sure you engage the IT department or people from your school very early. I know from my own experience that it makes live much more easy - spoken from IT part of my job). This coincides with the problems you list. Get them in, and those problems will be decreased.
Another potential problem might be the cost to the student: streaming video can be expensive, so better put out a strategic policy that can help set out guidelines or best practices. For example, if your school has overall wifi access, ask your IT people if they can allow a student mobile access point to be created, based upon their MAC address. This will allow students to access information one's they are in school, through single click on the wifi on their phone. But saying this, it also means that you must be certain ALL students have a wifi enabled, internet accessable phone.
Than on your elderly mLearning project
ah, before I forget (remark also of importance to previous project), you mention google group as a means to organize the interviews, I do not think that is ideal. A wiki might be better, or even youtube (for videos) as this is very accessible to mobile devices (more than wikis) and it is a youth thing to visit. Or you could think about Vimeo, which is similar to Youtube, but has better security options (to make it private, or for group, or from location accessible...).
Not sure how your school is organized, or which types of skills are taught, but if you gather all those wonderful narratives from the elder, you might want to join hands with other disciplines: for editing movies... or partner up with multimedia school nearby to edit the stories (just a wild idea). Or join hands with researcher from a university nearby, that way the narratives become part of the community and can be shared through history. Or join hands with the city where your school is located to get some funding, and embed your students activity into a creative mobile project supported by the city.
... oh well... dreaming never hurt anyone :-D
Hope this helps!
Sylvia Moessinger
Sep 20, 2012, 3:40:46 PM9/20/12
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Dear Inge,
you bet your comments help :-D. Thanks for taking the time to providing such extensive feedback, considering how busy you are. Your advise is very valueable, thanks for sharing your ideas with me. That's wonderful. Now, I just have to get started ;-)
Sylvia
you bet your comments help :-D. Thanks for taking the time to providing such extensive feedback, considering how busy you are. Your advise is very valueable, thanks for sharing your ideas with me. That's wonderful. Now, I just have to get started ;-)
Sylvia
karolyn
Sep 21, 2012, 2:33:21 AM9/21/12
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Hi Sylvia,
Sure Inge did lots of revision for ya.
Surely there is nothing new in the world- recently I was excited to start almost a similar elderly project in America with an American friend but we had challenges of connecting to an established org (but still revising). If you are really into some health system or government/city, we could share with you our idea and see if we can take it up in German in the meanwhile if possible and interested.
I was really concerned how the elderly are treated in the developed world and really wanted to help... In Africa its very different thank God.
I am really happy that I have now a concerned German too... and oh no it was not Mobile but we can find ways to integrate it using now your idea too....
catch ya.
Great project- Onetime we shall be old/elderly too, I never forget that!
Sylvia Moessinger
Sep 21, 2012, 4:38:24 PM9/21/12
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Hallo Karolyn,
it is interesting to hear that you work on a similar project and I would love to hear more about your project. I am a vocational teacher and I am not in contact with a public health authority. However, you gave me an idea which might be worth to consider to get in contact with an govermental ministry that cares for elderly. Yet, I thought about starting with a small local project and in case it works good and I get some positive feedback, then the next step would be get in contact with an bigger organisation and to raise the whole project on a more professional level, e.g. like Inge suggest to contact a publisher to publish the biographies. Well, I guess it is a long way, but it should be worth it. Bye the way I like your quote "Onetime we shall be old/elderly too, I never forget that!"
Sylvia
it is interesting to hear that you work on a similar project and I would love to hear more about your project. I am a vocational teacher and I am not in contact with a public health authority. However, you gave me an idea which might be worth to consider to get in contact with an govermental ministry that cares for elderly. Yet, I thought about starting with a small local project and in case it works good and I get some positive feedback, then the next step would be get in contact with an bigger organisation and to raise the whole project on a more professional level, e.g. like Inge suggest to contact a publisher to publish the biographies. Well, I guess it is a long way, but it should be worth it. Bye the way I like your quote "Onetime we shall be old/elderly too, I never forget that!"
Sylvia
Lutz Siemer
Sep 28, 2012, 7:52:24 AM9/28/12
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Hello Sylvia,
i like your ideas and I'm also inspired by Linda's idea of the ethnografic portraits as a method. I have no further feedback to add but I would like to talk to you about the possibilities of collaboration in Germany. Our institute did some projects in the last years in the area of demographic change and "pflegenotstand". Maybe you want to check our website to see if it is intersting for you: http://www.heurekanet.de/cms/website.php ... look i.e. at TransVAE...something that maybe had also be developed including mobile learning activities. If your interessted we could do a skype call or something like that.
Best, Lutz
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