Ed Tech in HE Reflections

You may not have heard of List.ly yet--I had not actually before I opted to review this tool. If you're looking for a mechanism to incorporate social media, this is one to evaluate. In considering a possible activity incorporating one of the volumes of social media tools available, I felt this particular tool held a tremendous amount of value dependent on how it is implemented. In the link below, I outlined possible applications for this tool. Link to learning design document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3n7-Sg9tVMnU0hrVzBUeDhqS2c/view?usp=sharing   See earlier blog posts for more detail on the List.ly tool, as well.

My goal here was to c reate a student support resource to include in an online course or syllabus. It was important to be able to identify how this would help students, specifically, as the focus is on learner support & engagement. One of the tools that I have not yet implemented but could see as beneficial to students in the psychology classes that I teach relating to human development/lifespan development is Storify. The intent behind the integration of this tool is multi-fold--student engagement being a major rationale, but also collecting information on a particularly relevant topic for the week(s) that we use Storify. It appears that their newest/pending iteration with Storify 2 may improve collaboration, as well, with additional functionality.  Here is an example that I located which shows the utility of this tool for a topic, shown here with the topic of "Using social media to get a job":  https://storify.com/PBSMediaShift/edshift-chat-using-social-media-to-get-