Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Instagram and Vine


Instagram and Vine

Well, my last two social apps I had the pleasure of getting familiar with is Instagram and Vine. I was pretty familiar with Instagram, but never bother to use it since I am mostly on Facebook. But, it' s a fairly easy and simple app to use. Teachers and Librarians can also find it very useful  in the classroom or library.
Here are some ideas I found on ways to use Instagram in the classroom.
  1. Showcase students' work. Snap pictures of students' artwork and other special projects to share on a private Instagram account only accessible to families and others in your school community.
  2. Feature a student of the week. Invite students to alternate "taking over" your classroom Instagram account and sharing photos from their daily lives. Then have the featured student share his or her photos with the class.
  3. Capture field trip memories. Invite a student volunteer "archivist" to take photos on your field trips or during class parties and share them on your Instagram account.
  4. Go on an ABC scavenger hunt. Challenge kids to find print in the world around them—on signs, packaging and in the mail.
  5. Document student progress. Snap photos of student's writing at the beginning and end of the year. Order inexpensive prints from sites such as Prinstagr.am to show students how far they have come.
    For more ideas go to:

http://www.weareteachers.com/community/blogs/weareteachersblog/blog-wat/2013/07/22/10-ways-to-use-instagram-in-the-classroom
Here are  two links to my  instagram photos:

  (I can't believe I got all the way to the last project and couldnt' embed my pictures into my blog!)

 The first photo is me starting my first painting. My husband and I took a three hour BYOB painting class. The instructor guided us step by step to paint a beautiful masterpiece, lol!

 http://instagram.com/p/rDNbXkgxSB/

This is the finished piece!

http://instagram.com/p/rDUB0VAxc9/



    Vine is a 8 second  video you can make. I had never really heard of it and was curious as to how I could use it in the classroom. Well, after a few assigned readings, I got some neat ideas. Here are the highlights of how teachers/librarians can use Vine.


1. Use Vine videos to teach your students about inference. You can film a few shots of something and then let the students discuss what they think is going on in the video, or what caused the scene.
2. Have students re-create scenes from books they are reading using Vine to showcase their interpretation of the story.
3. Get students excited about an upcoming unit by using Vine to create a unit preview.
4.Help students memorize critical concepts. Vine videos are looped, so they continuously play what you record. This is great to teach things that need to be committed to memory, such as times tables or phonetic concepts.



 Below are my Vines of part of my garden. Both plants  started out as a little seedling.

 This Vine Video is my okra plant. I bought it when it was about 3 inches tall.  Its almost as tall as me now. (Mommy so proud :)) We have given 3 people a handful of okra already and it's still producing.

 My cucumber plant is a much bigger "vine" than it was two weeks ago. It has flowers and is climbling its way up the trellis. I can't wait until I get my delicious cucumbers. Yummy!
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