Benchmark 1 (and 7)
Consider your digital identity. Either create an experimental twitter account for this course or use your own existing account. Put your twitter handle in the google sheet by your topic choice. Follow the #letSNCyourbrain and the account @SNCpysch. Use an application like “tweetdeck” to help stay on top of this course. If you feel comfortable, tweet about your project as it develops across the semester.
Goals:
- Develop a professional digital identity
- Cultivate a personal learning network
- Distinguish between quality digital media and “fluff”
- Contribute creative, quality works to our networks
- Maintain a dialogue and open source of communication
Requirements
- Tweet or retweet course related material with the #LetSNCyourbrain once per week
- Here are some prompts or ideas for tweets:
- Quote a short passage you find compelling from one of the texts
- Something you learned from class
- Ask a thought-provoking question
- Share a link to a physiological psychology article or news story
- Share your progress on your project
- Set up study groups
- “This wk in @sncpsych XXXXX #letSNCyourbrain”
- Participation in Live Tweet (guidelines will be given at end of semester)
Additional Guidelines
- You must use the #letSNCyourbrain!!!!
- You may retweet up to 5 times over the semester. The remainder of your tweets should be unique tweets.
- Tweet your infographic and/or a link to your infographic/podcast
- For example: “check out my infographic on XXXXX <link> #letSNCyourbrain”
Ways of engaging further
- Liking classmates tweets
- Replying to classmate’s tweets
- Responding to questions
- Retweeting content you want to promote
Please follow
- course account: @sncpsych
- course hashtag: #letSNCyourbrain
Consider following these accounts to hear about neuro/psych news:
- @SciAmMind
- @CogNeuroNews
- @NeuroNow
- @Neuropscyhblog
- @TrendsCogSci
You are NOT required to follow my personal account. You are, however, welcome to follow me on Twitter. If you decide to follow me on Twitter understand that the tweets represent my own views and do not necessarily reflect SNC. I primarily tweet about science, neuroscience, psychology, and teaching, with the occasional tweet about running and current news events sneaking in.
Due: weekly throughout the semester (once per week tweets)
Assessment: Completion (I will check twitter each week, tally your tweets/retweets, and reply to questions and occasionally respond to other comments)
Altogether, this assignment will be worth 25 points (~1 pt/week; ~2-3 pts for sharing infographic & podcast; ~5 pts for participating in Twitter chat)
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