Using Social Media In The Classroom
Extend Learning Beyond The Classroom...
Classroom Extensions: Instagram...Vine...Twitter
Ways To Use Instagram In The Classroom
- Showcase student work
- Capture field trip memories, student presentations, memorable classroom moments.
- Create "content nights". Gary Moss, a social studies teacher at Frank Seale Middle School, hosts "Social Studies Night" every so often and gets students engaged in conversation over the content/current events.
- Post as characters in a book, historical characters, artist, etc.
- Feature "Student of the Week"
- Record steps of a science experiment or project development
- Document student progress
- Reflection of work completed
- Field Trip (or as most do today, Virtual Field Trip) scavenger hunt
- Writing prompts
- Reading recommendations
- Content/classroom news notifications
- Creating opportunities for real-world content conversations outside the classroom
- Digital Storytelling
- Examples of content such as metaphors, comparison of gas prices
Check out this free guide on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Uses for Vine In The Classroom
While everyone agrees our attention span is getting shorter and shorter, maybe it's time to make it work for you! Below are some resources on how to use Vine in the classroom.
How to Use Vine in the Classroom
8 Ways You Can Use Vine to Teach Reading Comprehension3 Ways to Use Vine in the PBL Classroom
Twitter For The Classroom
Want to learn how to tweet? Check out this Twitter How To, created by the MitCrew.
Here's a list of some great ways to use Twitter in the classroom:
- Get your questions answered! (I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't ask the Twittersphere for help with something!)
- Live tweet video clip viewing
- Live tweet field trip/virtual field trip events
- Tweet as a character or historical figure
- Answers to formative assessments; take polls, provide feedback/reflections
- Reflection of completed work
- Engage students in content conversations
- Take class notes...yes take notes then curate class notes for the day using Storify, a web tool that curates tweets based on users preferences. This is how I typically take notes at a conference and I am able to include additional tweets from others at the conference to provide a more comprehensive view.
- Track content, topics relevant to your classroom content area
- Engage and inform parents
- Play content games such as scavenger hunts
- Work on summarization skills...it's 140 characters or less & students need this practice!
- Create progressive or collaborative content
I love this resource produced by Educational Technology and Mobile Learning on 50+ Ways On How To Use Twitter In Your Classroom because it organizes uses of Twitter by categories: Communication, Organization, and Resources.
Check out the Twitter Guide For Teachers!
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