Using social media to teach writing and to correspond with larger writing assignments.

1. Writing with Social Media
Katherine Lashley
AFACCT 2014

2. Facebook

3. 6 word stories
 Focus on brevity
 http://www.sixwordstor
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Students write their
own 6 word story
The story can match
their essay
Students post it on FB
Student comment

4. 6 word stories
 https://www.facebook.
com/groups/55686911
1020555/
 https://www.facebook.
com/groups/2435472
65688240/

5. Chalk the Sidewalk
 4 word message
 Related to essay
 Focus on
brevity, argument, mai
n topic
 Write in chalk on
pavement

6. Chalk the Sidewalk

7. Blogs

8. Blogs: Essay Chunks
 Students select a small section of a graded essay
to revise
 Students post it on their blog
 Focus:
 Topic sentence
 Concluding sentence
 Revising
 Audience

9. Blogs: Journals
 Students read and revise journal entries
 Focus:
 Revision
 Time between drafts

10. Twitter
Tweet about
blog posts

11. #hashtag
 #keywords for essay
 #keywords for research
 Search Twitter for the #hashtag and read what’s
trending

12. Pinterest
Save images, memes, and website links for your class

13. YouTube
 Videos of authors
 Movie clips
 Students create videos connected to essays
 Content
 Organization
 Presentation

14. New Ideas
 Skype
 Facetime
 Instagram
 Prezi

15. Advice on Using Social Media
 Find a good balance
 Too much can overwhelm you and your students
 Introduce in the first 2-3 weeks of the semester
 Do not introduce this late in the semester
 List it in the syllabus