Design and implementation of social media in education module

Karen, Niha, Rosa, Araceli, and I were in charge of the design and implementation of this module: Social Media in Education.
Our professor Dr. Sara McNeil gave us the opportunity to choose a role in the group and work in teams according to our designated goals.

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To start with our contributions to the team we created several channels of communication.
- WhatsApp was meant to interact and communicate with everyone in the team quickly.
- Google Drive with common folders to share all the resources, materials, and other information and knowledge.
We used a "google doc" to create an outline of our modules that include objectives and goals, the presentation with their parts and who contributed, the instructions for the hands-on project and artifact sections, the articles to read, the infographics section, the instruction section with the discussion questions, and other ideas, resources or links to include.
For each section a common folder was created and shared with all the members of the team.

Each member has their sections to work on. When a file was added, everyone got a notification of the new file. Despite the assignation of the roles, each member of the team helped other members who needed an extra hand.
Our team was very helpful, supportive to each other, and we really enjoyed working together on this assignment.

Microsoft Teams

Our team accepted the challenge to develop and implement our module within a social media app: Microsoft Teams.
After having all the materials and resources created for our module on Google Drive, we shared it all on Teams folders. Our classmates could read the articles we chose for the module and accessed the content of the module. 

After the video presentation of our module the students started with their activities and discussion questions.

Previously all the students were invited by Dr. Sara McNeil, so they could see this video and content. Most of us were new to Teams, so there was the best opportunity to learn about social media and education "in situ".
During this week the students were posting their comments and posts. Many of them were sharing the struggles and challenges they were facing with this app as they were first-time users. After practicing for a while, all of us started to be more confident and our interactions and participation increased.
Eventually everyone did a great job!
I really enjoyed this experience! ;)