Social Media and Mobile Technology--Attempts to Improve Student Engagement

Student engagement has been identified as a focus area at SUNY College at Oneonta. This session will share how the director of SUNY's Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center is improving student engagement through leveraging social media and mobile technology by using ConnectYard to better reach students in his media ethics and new media courses. ConnectYard is a centralized social media communications platform that leverages Facebook, Twitter, and video and text messaging to engage students, build community, and expand institutional communications.