Unit Three: Social Media in other Classrooms
Unit Objectives
1. Participants will be shown various real examples of social media use in a classroom
- Actual social media accounts
- "Fake" social media template websites
- "Fake" social media paper templates
2. Participants will view rubrics that accompanied the social media site projects to see examples of student understanding and comprehension of material
3. Participants will being to think about how they will use social media and create a rubric for future social media projects
Examine the following examples of social media in various classrooms
Read student social media accounts
"Fake" Social Media Template Websites
[Texting]
[More Social Media Template Examples]
"Fake" Social Media Paper Templates
File:FacebookTemplateIntroduceYourselfActivity.pdf
Real Student Work Examples
Students were asked to create a "fake" social media site for a person living during colonial times. Here are several examples of student social media site creations.
[Colonial Tanner Text Message]
These are just a few examples. The students were graded using the following rubric.
Tasks
Begin to brainstorm on how you could use social media in you own classroom.
Please write a brief discussion post (200 words) on how you could use any of these examples in your own classroom. Also discuss which ones would be the easiest to use and the most difficult to use and why.
Please submit your post in the Unit 3 forum on
Please comment on at least one other participants discussion post.
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