Students Work on Social Sciences Kaleidoscope (SSK)

The Social Sciences Kaleidoscope (SSK) will be a web portal for social media channels students maintain to discuss what they are learning and researching in the social sciences. A call went out in the fall 2013 semester for students to participate in the spring 2014 semester, and two student projects were selected; each student will receive a $400 stipend for participating. A new University of Wisconsin-Parkside website is being developed that will have a dedicated SSK page, but the students are already working on their projects, which can be directly accessed. Jenn Zentmyer is using a Tumblr to examine her experiences in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) certificate program (http://scientistjz.tumblr.com), and Manvinder Singh is using a Facebook page to engage the public in facts he is leaning in his Victimology class as a Criminal Justice Major (https://www.facebook.com/manny.singh.374549)