Social Media Learner Support & Engagement
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-...