Social Media

Resources:

• Here is an editable Facebook template link by @russeltarr.
• You can easily download/edit/print screen a Twitter/Instagram/Snap Chat template from Google Images. 
• Try this website Fake Text here.

What to do:

You can use these activities as exit passes or as ways to summarise the learning your students have undertaken in a simplified manner.

• Create a display board out of the tweets written?
• Create a class hashtag? Share important information? E.G #RevisionIdeas15
• Draw images to represent learning via the Instagram statuses.
• Get students to take over the 'class' Instagram account and share pictures of their learning for a week? 
• Put yourself in other peoples shoes and imagine what they would tweet/post/share?
• Use the Facebook profiles to demonstrate connections between famous/important figures across a variety of subjects.
• Snapchat homework/controlled assessment tasks and set expiry times based on deadlines.

Variations:

Ask students to create their own social media platform? Ask them how it can benefit their learning?

• Read this blog post here by @lakogan about how to use Snap Chat in education!
• Here is a post- 50 ways to use Twitter in the classroom!
• Does using social media actually improve grades- see here!

Image from http://mastersineducation.org/infographic-how-to-get-better-grades-through-social-media/

20 ways to use #Twitter in the classroom: #edchat #unionrxi pic.twitter.com/81TCeS19Pt

— Dr. Justin Tarte (@justintarte) April 6, 2015