Novembre en images!
Twitter / Instagram Challenge
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| November list created by Kate Tidd - South Hadley High, MA |
Interested in participating in a country (and world-) wide social media campaign to promote French language and communication? Invite your students to follow the hashtag (theme word) #lefrancaispartout on Instagram (pictures) and Twitter (pictures and text).
Each day of the month has a theme word. Students and their teachers post pictures that represent the word and add the hashtags so others can find the posts.
For example: #horloge #lefrancaispartout is the image for 2 November. Take a picture of a clock and upload it to either Twitter or Instagram (or both!) with both hashtags. Some teachers are offering incentives to students who participate. Classes could work as a team to add the most images in a day. Pictures could be taken on campus during class or after school hours.
Need more information about using Social Media with students in the World Language classroom? Read my article from the AATF National Bulletin: Using Social Media to Develop Communication Skills.
Requests for participants:
1. Please ask your students to only use FRENCH in their posts. They may use Twitter or Instagram or both.
2. Remind students that this is an educational environment. Pictures and messages must be school appropriate.
3. Be creative! Don't just Google a picture, create a scene!
4. Always check the hashtag feed before showing it in class. AATF cannot control who posts using this hashtag. It is possible that inappropriate images are included in the feed, but this can also be a good moment to discuss Digital Tattoos and Digital Citizenship.
5. Know your audience! Discuss the challenge with your administration and/or parents if you feel that this activity would pose a concern.
You may ask students to use their own accounts, but don't follow your students!
You could create a class account with school devices. Students would all use the same account to post and you would have the option to delete any posts that do not meet your requirements.
6. Set up ground rules with your students before they begin posting. You may with to create a class hashtag to help you keep track of your students who are posting. #mvhsfrancais is the hashtag my students use so I know who is participating. A student in my class would tag a picture: #mvhsfrancais #lefrancaispartout #horloge.
7. To explore the posts from September through November, visit these sites:
Tagboard - Research ALL social media outlets for hashtags.
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