This document discusses using Instagram for teaching and educational purposes. Some key points:
- Instagram has over 300 million active users who share over 30 billion photos
- It can be used to engage students, teach digital citizenship, and build class community
- Teachers should set up a separate Instagram account and not use it for official announcements
- Example assignments outlined include having students share photos related to vocabulary words, quotes from readings, or grammar lessons
- Hashtags can help organize student posts into galleries around certain topics or classes
- Benefits include allowing visual representations of concepts and real-world connections to course material
3. Instagram Life
• 300 million active users
• Over 30 billion photos shared to date
• An average of 70 million photos per day
• 70% of Instagram users come from
outside of the U.S.
• Considered the most important social
network by more American teens than any
other network
Internet Trends Report, 2015
4. Features
• Free
• Easy to share
• Unlimited uploads
• #hashtags
• Comment
• Tag
• 15 second videos
• IOS/Android
• Filters
6. Activities
• Explore vocabulary, theories,
& concepts
• Pre-task to think about the topic
• Visualize to support readings
• Real-world connections
• Showcase student work
• Engage multiple classes
• Capture class memories
7. Set-Up
• Separate Teacher Account
• Info on Syllabus & Linked to Bb
• Optional
• No follow backs
• Not used for official announcements or
homework
• Like it = I saw it
8. Assignments
• Where is Denise?
• Extra Credit Challenges
• Correct the Error
• Vocabulary Image
• Quote in MLA Format
• Essay Image
• Team Grammar Selfies
• Ongoing Campus Events & Info
9. Extra Credit Challenge:
Post where you read.
Share a new vocabulary
word, definition, and
sentence.
Share something
interesting you learned.
14. Book Club Lines +
MLA Format:
Choose a line from
your book, illustrate it
with an original photo,
cite the quote in
correct MLA format.
Correct mistakes!
15. Grammar Selfies:
Take a team selfie.
Write and share
compound & complex
sentences about your
team’s similarities and
differences.
Correct each other’s
mistakes!
19. Challenges
• Creating accounts
• Private accounts
• Direct messaging
• Reposting
• Misspelled or general hashtags
• Small print on phones
20. Coming Next:
• Quote of the Day (Monday Musings)
• Where is it Wednesday?
• Scavenger Hunt
• Caption That
• 15-second Videos (act out a scene, book
commentary, movie trailer)
• Weekly themed photos
• Post a collage – students write 6 word story
• Post a collage of images and facts about a place
from the readings. Students guess and and
another fact they find.
Dipping my toes in – ESOL/ENGL
Online next semester hybrid, this one: F2F
Images support so much in language classes + everyone loves taking photos
Tried Twitter – they don’t have it
Bb – not a great visual way to share
Insta – most everyone has it
#hashtags to find our class easily
Comment = interactions and corrections
Tag me or each other in groups . . Video (haven’t done it yet)
In addition to content, vocabulary, grammar and language practice. The oldest student posted first and helped everyone else (don’t assume). Quietest students post a lot (gives everyone a voice). Builds community – learn each others names etc.
Some things I tried out this semester. Optional/extra credit, in groups . .. Direct messages, tagging me
Didn’t spend a lot of time on this. Will create better hashtags. Link to Bb so they see it regularly even if they aren’t following.