Tweeting

https://twitter.com/PsyMoffat Largely a twitter account for psychology students can be used to keep students informed of how psychological research is received by the public and how it can influence policy in terms of newspaper articles. In addition information about new research can also be shared that can extend the students learning. Students can also be asked as a plenary each day to write a tweet, and the best one gets posted onto my account The addition benefits of twitter is that through push technology, any students that follow my account can have information pushed to them when I have made additional posts. Potential issues include misuse. As this generally will be accessed outside of the classroom students sometimes forget the rules of appropriate behaviour and engage in making comments that would be considered inappropriate in class. Students without smart phones and have limited access to the internet may feel excluded, and students who have chosen not to have a twitter account may be reluctant to join and engage - if this is the case it is likely that even with encouragement they will not access updates regularly. Push updates could help to minimise this.