Title: Building Connections Across Communities: Creating Public Voice by Integrating Technology into Classroom Experiences

Description: Providing students will opportunities for collaboration and engagement with media not only enhances attention in a classroom it also offers vital opportunities to enhance the skills students practice everyday. Integrating multimodal technology and assignments into our teaching provides vital experiences using social media in professional and civically engaged ways.  This presentation discusses the rationale of why multimodal assignments are important as well as offering multiple examples and tools that can be implemented tomorrow.