Transcript Reflections and Digital Storytelling

Reflections and Digital Storytelling
Amy Pittenger
Rationale for Project
Student’s personal journey is a primary component of the
learning objectives of the course
• Medical controversies course
– Three sections
– One reflection for each section
• Create a mechanism for students to convey
– Pair images and narration to reflections
Section 1 : Drugs: Introduction to Drugs and the U.S. Healthcare System
Week 1 Writing Instruction and Drug Use and Drug Information
Week 2 Drug Use and Drug Information continued
Week 3. The Pharmaceutical Industry – Drug Regulation and Development
Week 4 The Pharmaceutical Industry-Advertising
Section II: Patients: Access and utilization of healthcare
Week 5 Types of Health and Medication Insurance
Week 6 Government Healthcare Systems
Week 7 Medication Misadventures/Role of the Healthcare Team
Week 8 Health Disparities in Medication Use
Week 9 Drug Pricing/ Learning from Non US Medication Systems – online role play
Section III: Pharmacists: Controversies and Challenges of Drugs and Healthcare
Week 10 Medical Tourism and Counterfeit Drugs
Week 11 Plan B and Conscientious Objection
Week 12 Plan B and conscientious objection – online role play
Week 13 Medicine as Politics
Week 14 Presenting final projects
Excerpt from Student Guidelines - Rationale
• Reflecting on our learning processes can be one of the most
invaluable learning tools in understanding how and what we
retain, in discerning how we have arrived at the understanding
and conclusions we have of ideas and concepts, as well as
thinking about what we have gained and how to improve on
our strengths and weaknesses in the future.
• We also believe that reflection forces us to take a few minutes
to dwell on our experiences as learners because we must
identify the things that worked and did not work for us in the
process, while at the same time, asking ourselves why?
• What changes in my role as a learner could have helped me
gain the most from this experience? Too often as learners, we
focus only on the goal and not the process that got us there.
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Example of Reflection Guidelines – Writing the
Reflection
Over the past four weeks, we have discussed drug
development, regulation, and promotion.
What were your views prior to going through this section?
How have your views been strengthened or challenged?
(mention specific readings or discussion postings)
Please reflect on how your knowledge of the previous
section (s) has impacted your understanding of the issues
presented within this section. (mention specific readings or
discussion postings)
Example of Reflection Guidelines – Pairing Images to Reflection
• Utilize images which enhance and extend the ideas
expressed in reflection
• Pair images with your written reflection script – add
narration using VoiceThread
• To prepare for this assignment, students are asked to
create an introduction to the class using VoiceThread
• We have created VoiceThread tutorials
Grading Rubric – to receive full points
Use of image and narration
• Author finds images which convey the emotion the section
issues and own personal conflict.
• Images extend the viewer’s understanding of author’s
journey and human component of the issues discussed.
• Image and narration are seamlessly blended.
• Evidence that reflection was written first before images
applied.
IRB approval – working with Cassie
Scharber
• The IRB: Human Subjects Committee determined that the
referenced study is exempt from review under federal
guidelines 45 CFR Part 46.101(b) category #1
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES IN EDUCATIONAL
SETTINGS.
Principal Investigator: Amy Pittenger
Title(s):
Situated Identity in an online discussion class