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

1. #teachingwithinstagram

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

5. Benefits
Student engagement
Digital citizenship
Build class community
Easy communication

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.

11. Vocabulary:
Showcase your
group’s vocabulary
word in an original
image.
Provide the
definition and a
personal sentence.

12. Pre-Topic Task:
Post a picture of
something that
represents an
important
component of your
Identity.

13. Pre-Writing:
What Would You
Hold Forever?
Share a photo of
something you will
keep as long as you
live.

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!

16. Find the Mistake:
Look for real-life
language errors.
Share and correct.
#grammarpolice

17. Class and Activity
Hashtags create
Photo Galleries.

18. Capturing Class Memories

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.

21. Resources
• #teachersfollowteachers
• #teachersofinstagram
• #teacherlife
• List.ly/list/EDQ-instagram
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• Twitter: @dmaduliwilliams
• dmaduli@swccd.edu