There is a better way to learn about how social media effects our daily lives and how people feel about it than reading it in a textbook. In Professor Stine Eckert’s Web Design for News Content class, students were given a scavenger hunt to be completed on Twitter and roughly 45 minutes to wonder the halls and campus of Wayne State University to ask student and professors how they feel about social media, how they get news and how they get news on campus. Students were required to Tweet their finds with a picture of the student or professor that was quoted and use the hashtag #hive55 as an easy way for fellow students to find and comment on posts. Posts were then collected and uploaded onto Storify for a cohesive story.
What resulted was a fun and eye opening way to find out how fellow students and educators view social media.
Emily J Ridener 