UDL – Challenge 2 – Community

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created by Adam Zalewski (@azalewski)

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Community
I use an activity using Microsoft teams.  We have a community where the students share their experiences and reflect. They are expected to comment on other posts as well and can use emojis. They have found it very interesting because they are sharing from their own unique experiences and learn from others.  I feel it’s important that a community activity serves a purpose for the class. If it is just answering questions that don’t need input from others it isn’t very engaging.
In addition to a community activity being engaging, it should be relatively low stakes. That is, you can edit your responses and have a range of topics to choose from. Many people posting get anxiety on what to write and I feel the same. As an instructor I respond to every post with my insight and try to support them too. However, as a community that uses any form of social media, we have to be careful about what is being posted despite the welcoming and open nature of the assignment. For that that reason, rules are established that I have based on the literature using social media in healthcare. Here are the rules below with the references.

1. Be professional and courteous.
2. Protect confidentiality. A key practice is to remind social media users to never disclose protected health information or other patient identifiers.
“Patient identity can be kept confidential by deliberately changing details such as gender and age, or by being non-specific about the date of consultation and perhaps the anatomical site of the ailment.“ (Hennessy et al., 2019)
3. Allow for interaction that supports constructive debate and conversations while maintaining respect for others.
4. Be thoughtful, posted information should always be considered permanent.

References
Hennessy, C. M., Smith, C. F., Greener, S., & Ferns, G. (2019). Social Media Guidelines: A review for Health Professionals and faculty members. The Clinical Teacher, 16(5), 442–447. https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.13033
Taylor, J., & Loeb, S. (2019). Guideline of guidelines: Social media in urology. BJU International, 125(3), 379–382. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.14931

 

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