I have been trying Social Media as a method of engaging the students with the work for about a term now and need some student feedback as to how they think it is going. I decided not to send them a Google form as that takes too much nagging to get them to do it, so I have just been talking to them face to face and asking them questions in person.
The links to each of them are on the front of my class site - link here
Student Feedback
Student 1 - Y13
She has followed the TikTok account and is asking me if I have done any new ones. She watched the latest one about rendering. She is one of the students who helped me learn how to do the basics on TikTok so she was quite keen to see how I did with it.
Student 2 - Y13
Not very good at reading his emails so does not get the notifications about new videos being up. He hasn't really engaged with the content because of this.
Student 3 - Y13
She has watched the videos on TikTok. (especially the cookies one ... they all love the cookie recipe !!). She seems to use a "just in time" method with her watching. When she needed to know something about 3D, she went specifically to that video to watch it and when she wanted to know about rendering, she went to that one.
Student 4 - Y13
Her attendance has not been great so this is exactly the kind of student I was hoping to help with the trial, but she does not open her emails so knew nothing about it.
Student 5 - Y12 (not taught by me)
He watched the video the first time I sent them round but has not engaged with them since then. He is the type of student who does read his emails but he has not watched any more of the videos. He is unsure if this is to do with him not being taught by me but it is me that is sending the links through.
Student 6 - Y11
Watched the first ones and found one of them useful - the perspective one. Saw the emails for the latest ones but did not look at the videos they were busy and "forgot". They don't use either TikTok or Instagram so can not give an opinion as to whether they are useful on there. They watch on YouTube when they do watch.
Student - 7 - Y11
Has not seen any of them as he does not look at emails that are past the top. He has watched the one I sent last week. He thinks that adding spoken instructions would be more helpful. Watched it on TikTok last week.
Student 8 - Y11
Does not check his emails. If he did watch them, they would watch them on TikTok.
Student 9 - Y13
Does not read her emails.
Thoughts :-
- The HUGE stumbling block with this plan is relying on the emails to notify the students that a new video has been uploaded. How do I get them to follow on one of the three social media that I have been putting the videos on?
- Should I put posters up in the room with the social media logos and the handle of the account? This would only work if they are in the room but at least it isn't relying on them opening their emails!!
- Links directly to the videos on the class site and the workspace as I at least know they are going there. (I tried this with the Y9 food class - class site example here)
- QR codes posted up on the wall - made into stickers etc.
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