Motivation and emotion/Wikiversity/Social contributions

Social contributions

What are social contributions?

• Any publicly viewable contribution to the internet that enhances the motivation and emotion project beyond the chapter you are working on.
• Could be a direct edit to a resource page or talk page or a discussion or social media post which in some way directly or indirectly improves the quality of book chapters that other people are working on.

Why social contributions?

• Encourage and support peer feedback
• Enhance communication skills
• Reward student engagement

How to make social contributions

Contributions can be made by:

• Improving past chapters:
  • Search for chapters to improve
  • Add links to related, more recent chapters
  • Rewrite and update
• Current book chapters
  • Edit and improve chapter chapters
  • Comment and provide feedback on chapter and/or user talk pages
• UCLearn discussion forum posts e.g., respond to requests for feedback
• X - use #emot24

Types of social contribution

Social contributions can include:

1. Feedback added to chapter discussion pages (e.g., especially about chapter plans and/or drafts)
2. Direct editing to improve chapter pages (e.g., adding new info/content, fixing errors, improving layout/formatting) - changes could be to current year chapters and/or chapters developed in previous years - examples.
3. UCLearn discussion posts related to book chapters
4. Tweets about book chapters using the #emot24 hashtag etc.

Summarising social contributions

• Summarising social contributions with links to evidence

Topic development

• Make at least three different types of social contribution and summarise them with links to evidence on your Wikiversity user page.
• See the topic development guidelines for more details.

See also

• Search for chapters to improve
• Social contribution (Book chapter guidelines)
• Social contribution (Topic development guidelines)
• Summarising social contributions