Embedding Twitter in SimulationEmbedding Twitter in Simulation

Charlotte Davies - @onelongplait

Catherine Mungalsingh- @cmungalsingh

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Aims and ObjectivesAim:

•Raise awareness on using twitter to support learning from

simulation

Our Objectives:

•Discuss and discover anatomy of an effective educational

tweet in simulation

•Signpost helpful tools in making ‘a good’ educational

tweet in simulation

•Considerations in setting up ‘a Twitter protocol”

#SLSNConf16

Not how to use

Twitter…

and its 140

characters

Life Tweeting

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Our Experience

#pruhed

#kchfoam

Next Steps

Why do we use Twitter in Sim?

Encourage Use

Simulation Checklist:

Grouping our Tweets

SOME OF OUR TWEETS

Advertising Tweets

“Schedule” tweets

Educational Promotion Tweets

Learning + Signposting Tweets

Learning + Signposting Tweets

Learning + Signposting Tweets

Feedback Tweets

Feedback Tweets

Useful?

Useful?

• Information gathering

• Information giving

• Shares the mental model

• Reaches different levels of learners

• Free, easily accessed

• Archivable, searchable, recordable

• Allows introverts to “talk”

• Increased participation

Accurate?

GMC Guidance

Group Work

Can Twitter help support simulation?

What makes a good tweet?

- Advertising

- Promoting

- Learning & Signposting

- Feedback

How do you prove the educational value and impact of a

tweet?

A Good Tweet

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