Forthcoming Webcasts

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Date	Time	Details	Live Presentation	Interaction with other participants
Thursday 12th January 2012	12:00 pm - 13:00	Ray Jones and Pam Nelmes: Using online methods to engage service users, students and professionals	View the Live Webcast	Via Twitter #puwebcast

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Using online methods to engage service users, students, and professionals.

Thursday January 12/1/12 at 12pm
Ray Jones and Pam Nelmes

Plymouth University has been running online discussion programmes on e-health in which service users and health professionals have been able to discuss in discussion forums the pros and cons, and barriers to implementing e-health methods for various groups. (More information about this project is available at www.stakeholdersonline.org.uk ). In this online session on Thursday 12th January we will briefly describe our experience of this approach using the example of mental health.

We will also use the session to trial the use of Twitter ‘break out rooms’ (nests?!) for discussion between participants and to discuss the pros and cons of various methods to engage users, students and professionals online, including discussion forums, email listserves, chat rooms, Facebook, and Twitter.

The session is open to anyone. You will need a PC that plays sound and is able to run Windows Media Player to receive the videostream. Start logging on at 12pm to make sure that you are ready to go at 12.10.

What you have to do:

Before Thursday 12th, sign up for Twitter at www.twitter.com . (Don't worry, you don't have to be swamped by tweets, you don't have to see any unless you want to log in).
Before Thursday 12th, check that your computer can play the webcast videostream http://video.plymouth.ac.uk/webcast2
At 12pm on Thursday 12th January, if you only have a desktop PC or laptop you will need to open two browser windows in one go to http://video.plymouth.ac.uk/webcast2 as the URL on your browser . This is the webcast videostream. There should be some music playing or something.
In the other browser window log in to http://tweetchat.com. (If you have a smart phone or tablet you might want to do it on your separate device).
Sign in using your Twitter details
Type puwebcast into the Tweetchat box (following on from the # sign already there) at the top. All the recent tweets with #puwebcast in the message will appear
If you want to add something to the discussion just type in the box.
We will be using break out nests – we will tell you how to go to your nest during the session.