Six In Schools: Perfect Social Media Project for High Schoolers
Combinations or chances? I can’t decide. -Justice
Six-Word Memoirs’, Things Don’t Have to be Complicated: Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students of the World, was a collaborative effort, with a sweet scholarly twist: the Six-Word Memoirs included were solely student written and illustrated. SMITH Magazine called for students to submit illustrated Six-Word Memoirs via Twitter and students rose to the challenge!
For Ginger Giessler, it was a great social media project idea for students. Social media savvy herself, the New Tech Academy (Fort Wayne, Indiana) teacher encouraged her students to participate in the social media assignment.
Hard Exterior. Soft in the middle. -Britnee
Especially since experimenting with student publishing sites and social media for teens is exactly what New Tech Academy is all about. The school steeps its students in a project-based curriculum that emphasizes innovation and encourages creativity and a social media project for students fit the bill. Since Ginger specifically taught short story writing as well as AP Language and Composition, she was especially excited to find a social media activity for students based on a writing format.
“My students are having a blast writing their Six-Word Memoirs,” Ginger says. “For some, it was a way to express themselves without writing a long narrative that may not speak to the reader as strongly as their Six-Word Memoir. Above all, this type of social media lesson plan encouraged them to think hard about their word choice, punctuation and how they could illustrate the emotion/tone they wanted to express.”
Ginger’s expressive students submitted dozens of memoirs, the below being just a small sampling:
Hard Exterior. Soft in the middle. -Britnee
I’ve been saved from my sin. -Andrew
Combinations or chances? I can’t decide. -Justice
I’ve been saved from my sin. -Andrew
Submitting memoirs to the SWM Twitter is just one social media project example. Also, students - and everyone - are welcome and encouraged to submit their Six-Word Memoirs via the website!
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