These are the slides I used for my presentation at TESOL 2012. For more info see my blog: http://yorksensei.posterous.com/

1. Comics,
crowdsourcing
and upvotes:
EFL on the front page of the Internet

2. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
What is reddit?
Social media website

3. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
What is reddit?
Social media website
• Link aggregator
• All content is user-submitted
and voted upon by the
community
• The most popular content
appears on the “front page”

4. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Popularity and userbase
65% 10% 6% 3% 1.5%
Nearly 35 million
unique page views
Most users are male
between the ages of 24-35

5. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Content

6. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Content
Top 5 subreddits
1.funny
2. pics
3 politics
4. science
5. gaming

7. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Introduction to rage faces
• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.
• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.
Slides used:

8. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Introduction to rage faces
• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.
• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.
Slides used:

9. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Introduction to rage faces
• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.
• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.
Slides used:

10. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Introduction to rage faces
• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.
• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.
Slides used:

11. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Introduction to rage faces
• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.
• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.
Slides used:

12. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Introduction to rage faces

13. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Introduction to rage faces
• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.
• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.
Slides used:

14. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

15. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

16. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

17. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

18. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

19. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

20. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

21. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Comic making!
• Introduced the concept of trolling.
• Students registered on reddit.
• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.
• Commented on other peoples comics.

22. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

23. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

24. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

25. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

26. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

27. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

28. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
For more, log in and have a look!
r/EFLcomics

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Student reactions
What did you like about the project?
I was able to receive real
English comments!
I was impressed that readers
not only read my comic, but left
their impressions also
It was good to share my comics
with people overseas via the net

30. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Student reactions
What didn’t you like about the project?
It would be better if we had more
time (to make the comics)
It would be good if we had some
instruction on how to reply to
comments (I want to use some
English slang)
It’d be nice if the pictures moved.

31. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Community reactions

32. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Community reactions

33. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips
Community reactions
Current numbers:
• More than 7,200 subscribers
• Average of 17 comments per comic
• Top comics received more than 300,000 views
•14 comics have been featured on the “front
page” (top 100) of reddit.

34. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints and Tips
Hints
•NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content
•Youtube video (How to register)
•Monitor comments

35. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints and Tips
Hints
•NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content
•Youtube video (How to register)
•Monitor comments

36. reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints and Tips
Hints
•NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content
•Youtube video (How to register)
•Monitor comments