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Back to School Snapchat Summer Story Project

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Back to school Snapchat project! This fun activity combines the app almost all of our students are obsessed with - Snapchat - with a great Back to School or first day of school activity to help you get to know your students and them to get to know each other! Students create Snapchat Stories on an..…

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Snapchat, Not Just For Sexting Anymore: How Colleges Use The App

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Colleges and universities start Snapchat accounts to woo prospective students and cheer on athletes in the NCAA men's basketball tournament

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My nieces and little friends have taught me how to use Snapchat over the last few months. It is where they are so it where I want to be too. I love seeing what they share with me and following their Snapchat Stories.

I have seen Snapchat in libraries and schools sharing special news, events, announcements, assignments, contests, and celebrations.

I love how they get students engaged using Snapchat by sharing with a library, classroom, or school Snapchat too.

We have seen stores and restaurants with Snapchat and even watched a local news channel share theirs one night on news.

Now I will admit the question I have been asking myself for months, How could I find a way to use Snapchat? How could I use with students and teachers? How could I use it to share what is happening on The Library Voice?

And this week it came to me!

I will share special poems, ideas, books & surprises through My Snapshat Story all month long! And this will be just the beginning.

In Snapchat, it is very easy to share your Snaps in your Snapchat Story. Above, you can see My Snapchat and there are several new posts for Poetry Month that I added tonight.

little surprises from all kinds of books, like this one from John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt,
and more!

Within Snapchat, you can also save your Snapchat Stories so it makes it very easy to share these on a blog (like I am doing here) or...

even on your Twitter and Facebook page like I did in the post above.

This would be the perfect way to get other students, teachers and families hooked and to follow your Snapchat too!

To make it very easy for everyone to follow my new Snapchat, I took a screenshot of my Snapchat screen.

I then put it into Instagram for a little editing....and to share with my Instagram followers too.

I created posters which would be a quick and easy way to advertise your new Snapchat in the library, classrooms, and throughout the school and community.

You can even take that image and when printing, select to make multiple copies on the page. This can be found at the bottom of the print menu.

This is such a terrific way to make cards or stickers to help with promoting too.

And if you are new to Snapchat, all you have to do it download the Snapchat app. Then press and hold on a friend's Snapcode to add them.

As I learn more about Snapchat, I created a Padlet for Ideas and Project For Using Snapchat In The Library, Classroom, and Within Education. If you have a Snapchat for your library or classroom....and ideas that you are using...please share them here too.

I am more excited than ever for Poetry Month and all the special things we will do with Snapchat throughout the year.

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A Little Snapchat For Poetry Month....And All Year Long From The Library Voice!

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My nieces and little friends have taught me how to use Snapchat over the last few months. It is where they are so it where I want to be too. I love seeing what they share with me and following their Snapchat Stories.

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Tune into SimpleK12 for a timely and informative presentation about using SnapChat in School Libraries.
http://www.simplek12.com/upcoming-webinars/

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Snapchat in the Classroom: 7 ways professors can use visual mobile platform for social media classes

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One of the things I have tried to do as a professor is to explore not only new topics in my classes, but also new platforms. One that seems to come up a lot right now is Snapchat. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4237MZIb8g[/youtube] While I do have an account, this is one platform I have not used as much as others.

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I have had been using Twitter in the classroom for diverse activities for pretty much a while. Among these ones, I usually send out a question and students tweet their answers. First tweet gets the prize. It has always proven to be pretty engaging and students love it. Of course, you can also use some other quizzing apps such as Socrative or Exitticket. However I find Twitter a bit more engaging due to its social aspect.

So it all happened during a Physics class. The topic was temperature conversions. Since I knew that most students were good at temperature conversion from past courses I thought of this class as a review. So I planned to use Twitter contest. I sent out a temperature reading and they would convert it to another unit. To avoid them cheating and using Google search to get an automatic answer I had them solve the problem on paper and take a snapshot of the process and tweet it. We kicked off but we encountered a problem. For some reason, two of the teams were having issues with their mobile Twitter (I only allow them to use handhelds for this particular activity since a PC or Mac server might send tweets faster than a mobile and some of my students have handhelds only.). Their tweets were not sending out so the game was a bit uneven. After three trials we realized it was not going to work.

Then my students had an idea: they suggested we use Snapchat instead. I had heard about Snapchat in the past but was not really interested. For those of you who do not know what Snapchat is, it is basically an instant messaging service such as Whatsapp or Line, except that it sends snapshots only. So, you take a picture, send it to any of your Snapchat contacts and they get to see it. The picture is not saved, it disappears after certain seconds and is not retrievable. Teenagers have been using this application to send selfies or fun snapshots to each other; all of my students had accounts! We had a recess break and they convinced me to install it.

Snapchat was really fast! It sent pics almost instantly and in the order they were sent, so I could see who had finished the development of the problem and sent a picture first. Needless to say, student had lots of fun and they felt they were mastering the procedure. Good thing was that the winner team was not always the same one.

Now, as with all good things, there are probably some pitfalls about using Snapchat in class, student privacy being the main one. However, Snapchat has some interesting features that seem to avoid this issue. This is good if you, your school, or your district have strict policies regarding student/teacher interactions off school. You need to sign up with an unique username, but you do not have to add your students and they do not have to add you back. I did freak out a little when the service asked for my birth date, but this is because the application has age restrictions. Pictures that you send or are sent to you are not stored, they vanish in seconds. You decide how much time (within a frame that has a limit of 10 s) you allot your friend to watch the picture. There is also a feature that allows your friends to store a picture but this only for a 24-hour period.

My students asked me if we were going to be using Snapchat again. So now I´d like to ask you: Have you used Snapchat in your classroom? If you have not, would you use it? What advantages or downfalls do you think it might bring? I would really love to read your thoughts on this one and learn from each other.

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I have had been using Twitter in the classroom for diverse activities for pretty much a while. Among these ones, I usually send out a question and students tweet their answers. First tweet gets the prize. It has always proven to be pretty engaging and students love it.

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Back to School Snapchat Summer Story Project

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Back to school Snapchat project! This fun activity combines the app almost all of our students are obsessed with - Snapchat - with a great Back to School or first day of school activity to help you get to know your students and them to get to know each other! Students create Snapchat Stories on an..…

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This evening my 18 year old son gave me some lessons on using Snapchat. After reading Mathew Ingram's (@mathewi) article from last week, "Snapchat's Ultimate Goal Isn't Just Chat-It's Total Media Domination" on our flight into Ohio, I decided Snapchat is a social media app and platform I need to learn more about.

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Back to School Snapchat Summer Story Project

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Back to school Snapchat project! This fun activity combines the app almost all of our students are obsessed with - Snapchat - with a great Back to School or first day of school activity to help you get to know your students and them to get to know each other! Students create Snapchat Stories on an..…

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My class had a bit of back-to-school fun writing six-word selfies and publishing them Snapchat style. It was easy! I simply asked each child to write a six-word sentence that explained his/her hopes, dreams, goals, or aspirations for the school year. We passed around an iPad, and each student took a selfie. Later, I inserted each child's photo into a PowerPoint presentation, created a gray text box across the middle of the page, and typed in his/her six-word sentence. Here's mine:

These six-word selfies made a wonderful classroom display!

Brenda

For more classroom activities, links, and freebies, visit my new blog, Enjoy Teaching.

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My class had a bit of back-to-school fun writing six-word selfies and publishing them Snapchat style. It was easy! I simply asked each child to write a six-word sentence that explained his/her hopes, dreams, goals, or aspirations for the school year. We passed around an iPad, and each student took a selfie.

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Snap Biographies! Students create Snap pages for historical figures!

This social media template is available in the larger Social Media Biography bundle, located here:
Social Media Biographies! Four engaging, fun, & popular social media templates!
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In this highly-engaging activity, students create Snap feeds for historical figures! This is great for a biography assignment!

This is a template for students to create a Snap page for any person they'd like! Ideally, it works best with biographies. Students will easily be able to show their figure's biographical information, what pictures they would have "Snapped" to their friends, and what comments would have accompanied those pictures!

This is a very versatile activity and can be used in a variety of ways to meet your curriculum! Your kids will have a blast!

A great way to integrate modern technology into the learning process!
This resource includes a paper in-class version and a 1:1 Google compatible version to be used in conjunction with Google Classroom. Just follow the included instructions for how to access the Google version, then share the resource through Google or assign via Google Classroom. This will allow students to type (and paste pictures) directly into the document!
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Snap Biographies! Students create Snap pages for historical figures!

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Snap Biographies! Students create Snap pages for historical figures! This social media template is available in the larger Social Media Biography bundle, located here: Social Media Biographies! Four engaging, fun, & popular social media templates! --------------------------------- In this highly-engaging activity, students create Snap feeds for historical figures!

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Snapchat Strategic Brief Assignment for UofL Social Media Class [#Freberg15] for the Spring 2015 semester.

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The Psych Files | Psychology News, Test Preparation and Memory Strategies

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Snapchat got a pretty bad rap over the past few years, but did you know that you actually can use this video messaging app in ways that really do help students see the applications of what their teachers are learning in their everyday lives. In this episode I share my experiences using Snapchat with my psychology class. Yes it has it's limitations, but it also has some strengths that I think are worth looking at. Join me as I explore snapchat and give you samples of "snaps" I sent my students.

Resources on Snapchat and Education

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Ep 250: How I Use Snapchat In My Class | The Psych Files

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Snapchat got a pretty bad rap over the past few years, but did you know that you actually can use this video messaging app in ways that really do help students see the applications of what their teachers are learning in their everyday lives.

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I have had been using Twitter in the classroom for diverse activities for pretty much a while. Among these ones, I usually send out a question and students tweet their answers. First tweet gets the prize. It has always proven to be pretty engaging and students love it. Of course, you can also use some other quizzing apps such as Socrative or Exitticket. However I find Twitter a bit more engaging due to its social aspect.

So it all happened during a Physics class. The topic was temperature conversions. Since I knew that most students were good at temperature conversion from past courses I thought of this class as a review. So I planned to use Twitter contest. I sent out a temperature reading and they would convert it to another unit. To avoid them cheating and using Google search to get an automatic answer I had them solve the problem on paper and take a snapshot of the process and tweet it. We kicked off but we encountered a problem. For some reason, two of the teams were having issues with their mobile Twitter (I only allow them to use handhelds for this particular activity since a PC or Mac server might send tweets faster than a mobile and some of my students have handhelds only.). Their tweets were not sending out so the game was a bit uneven. After three trials we realized it was not going to work.

Then my students had an idea: they suggested we use Snapchat instead. I had heard about Snapchat in the past but was not really interested. For those of you who do not know what Snapchat is, it is basically an instant messaging service such as Whatsapp or Line, except that it sends snapshots only. So, you take a picture, send it to any of your Snapchat contacts and they get to see it. The picture is not saved, it disappears after certain seconds and is not retrievable. Teenagers have been using this application to send selfies or fun snapshots to each other; all of my students had accounts! We had a recess break and they convinced me to install it.

Snapchat was really fast! It sent pics almost instantly and in the order they were sent, so I could see who had finished the development of the problem and sent a picture first. Needless to say, student had lots of fun and they felt they were mastering the procedure. Good thing was that the winner team was not always the same one.

Now, as with all good things, there are probably some pitfalls about using Snapchat in class, student privacy being the main one. However, Snapchat has some interesting features that seem to avoid this issue. This is good if you, your school, or your district have strict policies regarding student/teacher interactions off school. You need to sign up with an unique username, but you do not have to add your students and they do not have to add you back. I did freak out a little when the service asked for my birth date, but this is because the application has age restrictions. Pictures that you send or are sent to you are not stored, they vanish in seconds. You decide how much time (within a frame that has a limit of 10 s) you allot your friend to watch the picture. There is also a feature that allows your friends to store a picture but this only for a 24-hour period.

My students asked me if we were going to be using Snapchat again. So now I´d like to ask you: Have you used Snapchat in your classroom? If you have not, would you use it? What advantages or downfalls do you think it might bring? I would really love to read your thoughts on this one and learn from each other.

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I have had been using Twitter in the classroom for diverse activities for pretty much a while. Among these ones, I usually send out a question and students tweet their answers. First tweet gets the prize. It has always proven to be pretty engaging and students love it.

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The last few years have seen a whole host of social approaches and technologies enter the classroom. Whilst the likes of Khan Academy and the MOOC platforms have led the way, there have also been a wave of smaller, but no less innovative, projects.

For instance, the likes of Smart Kapp and Socrative are offering up a couple of tools for making the mobiles that most students carry with them better learning tools.

There has also been a growing use of games in the classroom, with a recent study highlighting just how potent they can be as a learning aid.
Snapchat in the classroom
A potentially unlikely platform to be used in a classroom setting is the latest social superstar, Snapchat. The video messaging service that deletes messages after a short time would appear an unlikely candidate, but a recent study found otherwise.

The study revolved around the delivery of feedback to students about the quality of their assignments. It found that a video message delivered via Snapchat was preferred by students to the traditional method of annotating the assignment itself.

"Almost everyone agrees student feedback is inseparable from the learning process - and some even say high quality feedback is the most powerful single influence on student achievement - yet the same literature points out that many students do not value the feedback comments but simply skip to the grade," the researchers say.

The researchers note how student expectations have evolved, with many not even bothering to collect their work physically, instead preferring to receive their grades remotely and automatically.

"Even if students read the feedback, some researchers have argued that they do little with it, resulting in lecturers complaining that the many hours spent in providing feedback feels like wasted effort," the authors say.
"Basically, we wanted to find a something better than the established comments-in-the-margin with a red biro scenario."
The study provided clear evidence that students both found the Snapchat style video feedback more effective, but it also helped to create a closer connection with their teacher.
"The students had already received detailed written feedback on their first assignment. The videos were generally recorded immediately after the assignment was read and while notes were made on the assignment as prompts no 'script' was written. The proximity of the recording to when the assignment was read, meant the comments were specific, the advice relevant and the language had a sense of immediacy.
"This also meant that our time was not wasted making copious notes to recall the specific details of individual assignments. We rarely re-recorded and never edited videos as this would make the process too time consuming and ultimately unsustainable for larger or multiple classes. The recorded videos along with the grades were then uploaded to the grade book in the online student learning platform," the researchers reveal.

It probably goes without saying that this is a relatively untouched topic, so more research will be needed to see just how effective this could be across a much larger sample. Nevertheless, it might be something for teachers to try out with their own class to see how pupils respond.
Photo Credit: Snapchat in the Class/shutterstock

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Could Snapchat Be Coming to a Classroom Near You?

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The last few years have seen a whole host of social approaches and technologies enter the classroom. Whilst the likes of Khan Academy and the MOOC platforms have led the way, there have also been a wave of smaller, but no less innovative, projects.

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Snapchat in the Classroom: 7 ways professors can use visual mobile platform for social media classes

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One of the things I have tried to do as a professor is to explore not only new topics in my classes, but also new platforms. One that seems to come up a lot right now is Snapchat. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4237MZIb8g[/youtube] While I do have an account, this is one platform I have not used as much as others.