A way to express

I read an article/paper on how a student who studied in the US and went back to Canada to use what she learned about DS and how she can use DS as a nurse. She has had several conferences with patient's who have survived breast cancer. Her idea is to compose a variety of DS that survivors can look at. Some of the DS would deal with "What to expect after surgery" ,"What to expect during treatment" and so on. All of the stories would be of actual patients that are going through it or have already finished treatment. I think this is a great service that she can do for her patients. To give them something to watch others in their own situation that could express not only in words but by their own facial expressions of what they are going through. Here DS is used for patient education but also used as a support system.


Enhancing Patient Education and Supportive Care Research Through Partnership:
The Life After Breast Cancer Patient Education Conference
Schering/CANO Lectureship 2006
Jennifer Wiernikowski
Juravinski Cancer Centre
Nursing Department
699 Consession Street
Hamilton, ON L8V 5C2

here is the link: http://www.cano-acio.ca/en/files/journal/Schering_Lecture_2006_EN.pdf

Digital Storytelling Articles

What Makes a Good Story?by Chris King
http://www.creativekeys.net/StorytellingPower/article1004.html

This particular article was on the same site of one of the other articles I read. Eventhough it is not an article about DS, it is an article about storytelling. Here are 7 tips on how to storytell. Some of these would apply to DS in education and in health education.

A good story is one that touches people in some way.
A good story has to have substance.
A good story needs conflict and resolution.
A good story creates vivid images.
A good story is not “wimpy.
A good story is the story that is perfect for your audience.
A good story is a story that you love and love to tell.

Digital Storytelling Articles

I enjoyed reading the article "Once Upon a Time". It is wonderful to see the other side of how DS would enhance other skills that we need to learn as a young student. We need to learn reading comprehension and writing skills. The added bonus is how to use media/technology to teach and to discover. Great article!

Digital Storytelling Articles

It has been difficult to find articles that are free. I have found two articles that hit home for me. Working in a community clinic, I have many patients that do not read or write. I have a goal to produce many DS to upload to our computers that we will have installed later this spring (I hope). The purpose of this is to give my patients an opportunity to learn about dentistry and how they can improve their own dental care for a better life. Having access to these DS will make an impact on my patients and their families. I believe this would be a wonderful service for both our clinic, for our students who do a rotation to see other ways that we can communicate our knowledge to our patients, and most importantly, to our patients.

Patient education on mobile devices: an e-health intervention for low health literate audiences
Source Authors: Michael Macert, Brad Love, and Pamela Whitten
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1486533.1486539&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE

This artilce abstract discussed how patient education can be given to the community in a mobile device for underserved patients.

Looking for websites for our assignment was not an easy thing to do. I really wanted to focus on dental procdures or patient eduation DS. It was very frustrating not to find them easily and so many website off of google would not actually have examples. They were primarily written information. I am sure if I had a lot of time to browse, I could find some or at least find sites that could lead me to finding some.