Joining Open Education and developing a learning plan #817open

Somewhat to my surprise, I have decided to take another MOOC (Massive Open On-line Course).  This one is from the Open University in United Kingdom and is on Open Education (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/open-education/content-section-0).  I recently completed the E-learning and Digital Culture (EDC MOOC)and I learned about this course from the EDC Google+ group and on Twitter.  I

I am a pediatrician and I am involved in medical education during the clinical years (medical students and pediatric residents).  I learned a tremendous amount through the E-learning and Digital Culture MOOC particularly about the process of learning from peers in social media groups and about the many tools available for on-line education- for content delivery and for collaborative learning and creation.  It was a bit overwhelming and time-intensive, though I really enjoyed it and it "energized" me in my work.   I did wonder if I would apply what I learned in my teaching. 

Open Education #817 is an opportunity for me to think e-learning in a more systematic way and to think about what aspects might be applicable to medical education.  I include in medical education: trainee education, family and patient education, and collaboration/knowledge creation across disciplines and groups.

My Personal Learning Plan for this course includes:

1) Develop a strategy to organize what I am learning.
    - I am still using paper files (or the digital equivalent of Dropbox for Word documents).  I do not have a system for organizing what I learn, what I want to read in the future etc.  I plan to explore the use of Pintrest, Diigo, Evernote and Pearltree, both for my own organization and as teaching tools.  First stop is http://pinterest.com/twahlert/dropbox-evernote-diigo-in-education/

2) Utilize social media to learn from peers
   - I joined Google + and Twitter six weeks ago as a part of the EDC MOOC.  I found it to be a wonderful community and way to learn.  Who knew I would like twitter chats (thank goodness for tweetchat during those frentic chats).  I haven't yet figured out circles, following etc but I will participate in the 817open google + group and have more opportunity to learn how I want to use social media for learning.

3) Use a variety of tools in creating learning objects
   - My technology skills have been for the most part limited to Word and PowerPoint.  I plan to explore a bit more of the many different tools that I was introduced to during the EDCMOOC and to think about when to use various tools (if at all).  The starting list of tools from EDC MOOC is below and I plan to continue to look at the various digital artifacts created-
http://padlet.com/wall/edcmooc_artefact

1. Facebook Interaction Tracker-http://www.zeebly.com/social_me
2. Timeline-http://timeline.verite.co/#
3. Scoopit-http://www.scoop.it/ (Laurie Niestrath)
4. Tiki-Toki Timeline - http://www.tiki-toki.com/ (HB Hessler)
5. Diigo - www.diigo.com (Rick Bartlett) (Laaurie Niestrath)
6. Pinterest - http://pinterest.com (Ary Aranguiz)
7. Glogster - http://glogster.com
8. Youtube- http://youtube.com
9. Ustream - http://ustream.com
10. Infogr.am- http://infogr.am11.Mixbook - http://mixbook.com
11. Storify- http://storify.com
12. New Hive -http://newhive.com
13. Slideshare- http://slideshare.net
14. WebDoc- http://webdoc.com
15. BlogTalkRadio- http://blogtalkradio.com
16. Knovio-http://knovio.com
17. Google Hangouts - record your hangouts
18. Prezi -http://prezi.com (Laurie Niestrath)
19. Voicethread- http://voicethread.com (Ary Aranguiz)
20. Photostory- http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/ (Laurie Niestrath)
21. Thinglink - http://www.thinglink.com/ (Kay Oddone)
22. Animoto - http://animoto.com
23. Piktochart - http://piktochart.com
24. Wix - http://www.wix.com (Jono Purdy)
25. Popplet - http://www.popplet.com (Jono Purdy)
26. Animaps - http://www.animaps.com (Jono Purdy)
27. Museum Box - http://museumbox.e2bn.org (Jono Purdy)
28. Sqworl - http://www.sqworl.com (Jono Purdy)
29. Popcorn Maker - http://popcorn.webmaker.org (Jono Purdy)
30. Ipiccy - http://ipiccy.com/ (Anne Robertson)
31. Sketchguru - free android app (Anne Robertson)
32. Picmonkey - http://www.picmonkey.com/ (Marina Shemesh)
33. Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/ (create word clouds) (Marina Shemesh)
34. Adobe Captivate - http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html (authoring tool) (Madhura Pradhan)
35. Articulate Suite - http://www.articulate.com/ (authoring tool) (Madhura Pradhan)
36. Storybird - http://www.storybird.com (Cristina Silva)
37. ImageChef - http://www.imagechef.com/ (Cristina Silva)
38. Dipity - http://www.dipity.com/ (Cristina Silva)
39. Livebinders http://www.livebinders.com/ (Eileen Lawlor)
40. Videoscribe: http://www.sparkol.com/videoscribe.php (Angela Towndrow)
41. PearlTrees: www.pearltrees.com (Cathleen Nardi http://bit.ly/14iwRkM)
42. SlideRocket- http://www.sliderocket.com/ (Annie Oosterwyk)
43. Meograph- http://www.meograph.com / (Annie Oosterwyk)
44. Wallwisher: http://www.wallwisher.com (Ora Baumgarten)
45. Trello.com: https://trello.com/ Organize anything, together ! ( gianni buspo)
46. Mahara https://mahara.org/ (Linda Pospisilova)
47. Jing www.techsmith.com/jing.html (Kay Oddone) - Screen capture and screen casting tool - great for creating tutorials!