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Disseminating Science and Education through Social Media: The Experience of a Students’ Editorial Team at the University of Padova

“WeSocial: Online Learning Community” is a project aiming to provide students with the basic skills in science communication via social media as a useful tool in their future careers and to disseminate the University Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science activities to the general pu...

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Autores principales: Balzan, Stefania, Di Benedetto, Chiara, Cavicchioli, Laura, Merlanti, Roberta, Gelain, Maria Elena, Zanetti, Rossella, Cortelazzo, Anna, Marinelli, Lieta, Cardazzo, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35496709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00345-21
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author Balzan, Stefania
Di Benedetto, Chiara
Cavicchioli, Laura
Merlanti, Roberta
Gelain, Maria Elena
Zanetti, Rossella
Cortelazzo, Anna
Marinelli, Lieta
Cardazzo, Barbara
author_facet Balzan, Stefania
Di Benedetto, Chiara
Cavicchioli, Laura
Merlanti, Roberta
Gelain, Maria Elena
Zanetti, Rossella
Cortelazzo, Anna
Marinelli, Lieta
Cardazzo, Barbara
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description “WeSocial: Online Learning Community” is a project aiming to provide students with the basic skills in science communication via social media as a useful tool in their future careers and to disseminate the University Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science activities to the general public. The project is based on two main actions: professional training on science communication and social media strategies, and the establishment of an editorial team composed of students supervised by the teaching staff. When the training phase was concluded, official department accounts on Instagram (bca_campus_unipd) and Facebook (BCA_campus_unipd) were opened. Currently, the students’ editorial team (SET) oversees publishing a maximum of 3 posts per week, whose content deals with the academic, research, and educational areas of the department seen through the students’ eyes. The social media accounts are constantly growing and becoming a “place” for the virtual community of the department. Since students are both “information producers” and the “audience” of the project, they propose and focus on issues particularly important to them. As a result, the department’s social media has become a meaningful and relevant experience for students, enhancing their sense of belonging to the departmental and university community life. Moreover, the project is fostering the interaction between students and teaching staff and, thanks to peer communication, is increasing the awareness of department activities especially in the student audience.
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spelling pubmed-90530162022-04-30 Disseminating Science and Education through Social Media: The Experience of a Students’ Editorial Team at the University of Padova Balzan, Stefania Di Benedetto, Chiara Cavicchioli, Laura Merlanti, Roberta Gelain, Maria Elena Zanetti, Rossella Cortelazzo, Anna Marinelli, Lieta Cardazzo, Barbara J Microbiol Biol Educ Tips and Tools “WeSocial: Online Learning Community” is a project aiming to provide students with the basic skills in science communication via social media as a useful tool in their future careers and to disseminate the University Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science activities to the general public. The project is based on two main actions: professional training on science communication and social media strategies, and the establishment of an editorial team composed of students supervised by the teaching staff. When the training phase was concluded, official department accounts on Instagram (bca_campus_unipd) and Facebook (BCA_campus_unipd) were opened. Currently, the students’ editorial team (SET) oversees publishing a maximum of 3 posts per week, whose content deals with the academic, research, and educational areas of the department seen through the students’ eyes. The social media accounts are constantly growing and becoming a “place” for the virtual community of the department. Since students are both “information producers” and the “audience” of the project, they propose and focus on issues particularly important to them. As a result, the department’s social media has become a meaningful and relevant experience for students, enhancing their sense of belonging to the departmental and university community life. Moreover, the project is fostering the interaction between students and teaching staff and, thanks to peer communication, is increasing the awareness of department activities especially in the student audience. American Society for Microbiology 2022-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9053016/ /pubmed/35496709 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00345-21 Text en Copyright © 2022 Balzan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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Balzan, Stefania
Di Benedetto, Chiara
Cavicchioli, Laura
Merlanti, Roberta
Gelain, Maria Elena
Zanetti, Rossella
Cortelazzo, Anna
Marinelli, Lieta
Cardazzo, Barbara
Disseminating Science and Education through Social Media: The Experience of a Students’ Editorial Team at the University of Padova
title Disseminating Science and Education through Social Media: The Experience of a Students’ Editorial Team at the University of Padova
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title_full_unstemmed Disseminating Science and Education through Social Media: The Experience of a Students’ Editorial Team at the University of Padova
title_short Disseminating Science and Education through Social Media: The Experience of a Students’ Editorial Team at the University of Padova
title_sort disseminating science and education through social media: the experience of a students’ editorial team at the university of padova
topic Tips and Tools
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35496709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00345-21
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