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The Worst Video Game of All Time

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Kate Bentham — Leave a comment

Over recent weeks Karl S Green has been counting down his favourite video games. This week he shares with us what he considers to be the worst video game of all time, one called Night Trap. Karl explains the story, the…

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My Number 1 Favourite Video Game of All Time

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Kate Bentham — Leave a comment

Karl S Green has been counting down his favourite video games over the last few weeks, and this week we reach number 1. The winner is Soul Blazer, a game which Karl discovered when he was 11 years old, and…

Tagged with: favourite computer games, gaming, retro computer games, RPG action games, Soul Blader, Soul Blazer
Posted in digital games, digital technology

Serious selfies, spring, and sensations

Posted on March 29, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

Thank you very much to all the contributors to Week 12’s 15 posts. Since I am behind on summaries, I hope that this brief summary will be enough to lead you to explore these posts. I found them all well worth…

Tagged with: Ayrshire Health Blog, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, modern architecture, NHS, NHSS, nurse, Old photos, selfie, spring, Super Metroid, unselfie, Wordpress
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, architecture, blogging, communicating, communities, digital games, health, health services, leadership, learning, local government, management, natural environment, politics, public relations, setting goals, social care, social media, society, storm, universities, working practices

Leaving, changing, starting, springing

Posted on March 22, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — 1 Comment

Despite the date on this summary, I am writing it a month after it should have been written (I have been very busy, mostly with voluntary work for a community group), so I will attempt the briefest summary I have written…

Tagged with: Allied Health Professionals, Ayrshire Health Blog, National Health Service, NHS, NHSS, spring
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Frank Sidebottom, 150 Swedish tax inspectors and some physio

Posted on March 16, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

Thanks very much to everyone who contributed Week 10 posts – and apologies for my tardiness in writing the Week 10 summary. There was a strong health theme to the posts, not least since we had more healthcare professionals than usual…

Tagged with: dementia, physiotherapy, video games
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, charitable trusts, cultural heritage, digital games, health, learning, managing change, medical practice, mental health, monkeys, patient care, setting goals, social media, therapy, working practices

Stress, a little grrrr, blue light and some other colours

Posted on March 2, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — 1 Comment

Stress, emergency services, healthcare, and art featured in Week 8’s posts but we will start with music. Carol Woolley’s post about a choral evening A Valentines musical treat (I’ve included a video of Thank You for the Music by Abba because it…

Tagged with: acrylics, ambulance service, Australia, Ayrshire Health Blog, barber shop singing, BlueLightCamp, bush fires, choirs, choral music, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, Grampian, medication safety, National Health Service, NHS, NHSS, origami, paintings, Paramedics, patient safety, Scotland, scrutiny, stress, Texas, Wales, writing
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Chocolate, Daleks, The Wall, and rituals

Posted on October 22, 2013 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

We had 11 contributions for Week 41, the week in which this tweet: Another brick in the wall by @RossWigham http://t.co/7StWLUeUrP Wk41 #WeeklyBlogClub — Weekly Blog Club (@WeeklyBlogClub) October 21, 2013 was our 5,000th tweet – thanks to Derek Barron for noticing…

Tagged with: #ourday, Ada Lovelace Day, Ayrshire Health Blog, Hadrian's Wall, Mexican, NHS, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, Northumberland, Professor Dame Wendy Hall
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, aeroplanes, communicating, cultural heritage, design, digital games, digital technology, family, film/video, finance, fine art, food, health, health services, historic buildings and sites, history, learning, local government, mental health, music, natural environment, painting drawing, parks, patient care, research, social media, squares, streets, therapy, tourism, working practices

Inspiring youngsters + research, resilience, randomness

Posted on March 17, 2013 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

It became clear when going through the Week 11 contributions that inspiring youngsters was a theme that had emerged over the previous few days. Sometimes themes emerge organically, with one post sparking off an idea for another one. This one…

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Healthcare meets the software revolution

Posted on November 26, 2012 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

Debbie Provan writes about the various ways in which healthcare professionals use or could use social media and other digital tools both for learning and for providing good health information. Healthcare meets the software revolution by Debbie Provan on the Ayrshire Health blog.

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