{"id":120,"date":"2015-09-07T21:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ashleybailey\/?p=120"},"modified":"2015-09-07T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:45:57","slug":"snapchat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ashleybailey\/2015\/09\/07\/snapchat\/","title":{"rendered":"Aw, Snap! Snapchat in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What Is Snapchat?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Snapchat <\/a>is that app that became infamous <\/a>for sending naked selfies that would disappear. Remember that? Well, its image has changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Snapchat offers its users a number of different options to follow friends, celebrities, and media outlets like CNN and the Food Network – and teens use it every day. While Snapchat hasn’t quite beat Facebook Messenger<\/a> in popularity, it’s tied with Instagram and far surpasses twitter in teen engagement.<\/p>\n

Snapchat’s Discover feature allows users to keep up with current events, and it’s Stories feature \u00a0– a compendium of short videos and photos that lasts 24 hours – allows users to vicariously experience the edited lives of their peers.<\/p>\n

It’s fresh, it’s common, and its main aim is to tell a personal story. That’s why I plant to use it in my English Language and Literature class this year.<\/p>\n

How I plan to Use Snapchat<\/strong><\/p>\n

All kinds of educators are using Snapchat<\/a> in all kinds of ways<\/a> lately. \u00a0They use it to update students, to send out announcements, to teach about social media, and much more. I’m really just jumping on the cool-train here. \u00a0But having studied the medium, I think it is especially relevant for English and Media Studies teachers to learn about this particular platform.<\/p>\n

I plan to use Snapchat to post summaries of my course material for the day, and ask students to respond. But as a Media teacher, there is so much more to Snapchat than just posting short personal videos. \u00a0 I become a curator, an editor, (potentially) a comedian, and a student of media trends. I get hilarious and lovely snaps from friends of mine daily – and instantly! I get short snippets and tips from the Discover feature. And I am building the skill to distill the essence of my lessons (for class purposes) into relevant, pithy, personality-rich packages for my own benefit as much as for the benefit of my students.<\/p>\n

More importantly, I get to tell a story economically, and with doodles.<\/p>\n

Safety-wise, students can add teacher Snapchat accounts without teachers seeing what students have posted. Accessibility-wise, any student with a phone or ipad can join and participate.<\/p>\n

As for invading a space occupied predominantly by students, I don’t think they’ll mind. When I \u00a0mentioned my idea to the class last week, one student asked “why isn’t every teacher doing this?”. Students want teachers to understand where they’re coming from. They seek relevance.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0So this is my first experiment of the term – to share in and learn from the relevance they seek.<\/p>\n

With the Canadian PM election coming up, and then the American Presidential election – it will be fun to see which social-media platforms keeps us millennials most informed, and which ones the parties use to create the most impact. Some predict that in 2016, the top seed<\/a> will go to Snapchat.<\/p>\n

Here’s to experiments, media literacy, and a new school year of possibilities!<\/p>\n

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If you want to become more proficient at Snapchat, you can follow these people<\/a>, and\u00a0read these tricks<\/a>. If you are a Snapchat beginner like I was, I hope you find the links embedded in this post to be helpful.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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