Social media platforms as educational interfaces

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This parallel session will outline and evaluate my recent pedagogical research into social media applications as educational interfaces. The aims of the project were 1) to explore the use of social media platforms as alternative educational interfaces to the VLE 2) to collate useful online resources in my subject area and 3) to help students to recognise reliable online source materials. The project draws on my approach to the teaching dance history on the second year module Theoretical Concepts in Dance, which places equal importance on theoretical and practical knowledge. I use reconstructions of seminal pieces, alongside traditional lecture delivery and analysis, to facilitate student exploration of the history of dance in the twentieth century. In the practical research carried out as part of this project I created online resources using social media platforms such as padlet and pinterest to support reconstruction work. These multimedia memo-boards functioned as digital repositorie

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