Paisley Worthington, Jennifer Reniers, Dale Lackeyram, and John Dawson University of Guelph, 2018
Students need to learn and practice communication skills in a
psychologically safe way. Given that workspaces and career opportunities are now geo-distributed, success after school is dependent on these skills and derivative traits. Social media is unsuitable for such learning because it is not safe and encourages the laziest (and often worse) in humanity.
Quick signaling and blogging within the safety of a classroom's or school's journal is the perfect way for students to practice reflective communications, as well as:
Teachers, counsellors, and parents can also participate in the journal to relate their own experiences, as well as mentor students in openness and communications styles.
Measurable points system in Neelix does not require any learning. The weights are relative.
Privacy options enable the user to post anonymous feedback.
Neelix is adaptable to your context. Create your own set of experience categories, hierarchy of activities, and teams. Each post can be tagged appropriately.
Students, tutors and teachers can tag multiple themes when posting feedback.
People can be tagged on feedback items as a way of saying "thank you" or recognising a challenge that someone had to overcome. This feeds into the gamified Experiences Board.
Neelix is built on the concept of a Consortium. It is easy to make your Team Journal collaborative across teams or external partner.s
Role based permissions allow differentiating access between maintenance, advanced, doers, observer, and infographics only permissions.
The most important conversations are not always the easy ones. Use humour to release some steam, apply an avatar character, or add GIF memes (Neelix provides GIPHY integration) to enrich your feedback.
Markdown editing is supported on commentary. Feedback can be rich text, with links and image inserts.
17 rich infographics allow inspection of experiences across any time period, by themes, teams, and activities.
Posts can be created directly from Slack or Microsoft Teams via app integrations.