Week 9 - Blog Topic Vaccines for Tweens. No Class Monday ! Enjoy APHA and/or Getting Caught Up !

This week's topic is Vaccines for Tweens : Planning a Health Campaign, a webinar based on social marketing theory.

Go to the California Distance Learning Health Network (cdlhn.com). Select Public Health Cafe : Vaccines for Tweens. It's a 30 minute webinar on using social marketing to plan a campaign. It may be useful for your own project planning. What take home messages do you get from this ?

Then check out the Kid's Cool Sites at the top of the page. On the cool sites page, check out the 3 Goose Mumps videos - what do you think of this approach for promoting vaccines to tweens ? What part of the website do you think will be most effective for tweens in raising awareness or promoting vaccinations ?

Please also take a few minutes to bone up on Health Literacy using the BB Resources. It's a really important issue for us in public health.

Check out the Harvard School of Public Health website's Literacy video (15 minutes) and the slide show linked to week 7 and 8 on BB. What is your take home message from each of these ? Feel free to play with the software tools mentioned in class that are resourced for you under week 7 & 8.

Please note : There is no extra credit opportunity with Delicious. Miriah will be doing that one.

Please do load up your own Delicious account with your best links related to your group topic and be sure to share them with your fellow group members. It's a great tool for getting everyone on the same page before planning your presentation.

Week 8

For this week, please review either the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction article or the Badvertisement article, both of which can be found on Blackboard.

Extra Credit Contact Info:

If you have signed up to take one of the acceptable BATS classes (dreamweaver, photoshop, anything media related) please turn in some type of proof to Kristen. Her email is S627.kristen@gmail.com

If you are going to the APHA conference, you can type up a report about the lecture/presentation you attended. Please turn these reports in to Dominique. Her email is dmh0812@gmail.com. You can also arrange to give a presentation to the class about your experience, but you will need to speak with Dr. Mulvihill about this, as class time is limited.

You can also sign up for Delicious, the social bookmarking website. Please contact Miriah for more infomation about this process. Her email is myrtle1980@yahoo.com

If you are going to resubmit your midterm question #36, please make sure to list the specific challenges for each group listed on the report and come up with a solution for each challenge. These are due in class on November 3rd! Turn a hard copy in to Martha. You can email her with questions at ms.marthasolorzano@gmail.com

I will be giving you more information about writing an article for the two newsletters when we meet in class again, so please hold off on this.

Phew! Thanks.

**Remember, there is NO CLASS this Monday!!**

Charlie Rose War on Cancer/Obesity Video (week 7)

This week we are revisitng the YouTube video titled War on Cancer and Obesity with Charlie Rose. Please focus on interviewing techniques. How might you be able to apply what you learn here towards your expert interviews for our projects?

Congrats to everyone for surviving the midterm! ;)

Dr. Salls' Editorial (week 6)

Hey everyone,

I have never edited an already published post, so we'll see how this works. If you have already commented, you do not need to comment again. For this week's blog, please read the editorial by Dr. Salls and respond with your opinion on which holds more responsibility...the individual or the society?

**Also, please send me an email at schild07@gmail.com with just your URL address, so I can compile a list. Also, if you did not type up a paragraph on your blog (meaning you hand wrote it, or didn't turn one in) please include that paragraph with your URL.

Thanks!

Alcohol Ban on the Beaches/Project Info

Just some housekeeping issues first:

Please remember to post your comment to the blog by NOON on FRIDAY, so that I have enough time to enter in all of your points, and of course, so everyone has a chance to read your thoughts before class, so we can all be prepared to discuss.

Also, if for any reason you did not post last week, please send me an email at schild07@gmail.com. I just need it for the roster.

One more thing! Dr. Mulvihill and I both request that you use your real name as your blogger ID so that we know who posted and also, so that when we discuss the comments in class, we know who said what, and we can refer to you in class. You can change your ID by editing your profile, it will give you the option to create a display name. You do not have to use your last name, but a last initial is very helpful, especially since there are some duplicate names in the class.

We Can video responses

Hey again everyone,

Hopefully you didn't have too much trouble accessing this page. Please feel free to email me (Stephanie) at my gmail account (schild07@gmail.com) if you have any questions about the blog. Any questions about the class should be directed to either Dr. Mulvihill or the class, via this blog.

For this week's blog, please watch the Childhood Obesity YouTube.com video Dr. Mulvihill tried to have us watch in class. You can find it by searching "childhood obesity". It should be the first one, with a black screen and the words "we can" across it. It was posted by someone named "gmeldrum".
While watching this video, think about what we discussed in class today, about knowing characteristics about your target audience.
When the video says "we", who are they talking about? Physicians, experts, parents, children, community members? How did this person try to make their video attractive or appealing? Does this video appeal to your self-efficacy about how we can change this epidemic?

**Please post your reaction to this video, using some of the components we discussed in class today to explain why you did or didn't think this video was a good example of health communication.

Have a great week!
Stephanie

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