Instagram and Vine

       Long gone are the days of polaroid pictures and waiting days, even weeks, to get your film developed and shriek with excitement over your latest adventure.  In the 21st century pictures and photo sharing are instantaneous especially with the development of social media.  Instagram is one social media site that allows you to share your photos with only a few taps on the screen.  Instagram also allows you to share your photos via other social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.  Instagram is a great asset to any classroom no matter the age.

You can use Instagram to:
1. showcase student work
2. highlight your students of the week
3. edit photos to use as writing prompts
4. make reading recommendation
5. even create collages of the great memories from the school year.

Here are a few of my Instagram pictures:



   Vine is another social media tool that makes the creation of and sharing videos at the snap of our fingers.  Once you create your FREE vine account all you do is tap the screen and you can create a 6 second video.  What is so great about Vine videos is that they can be anything you want them to be. You can blend different shots of your video together to create quick easy glimpses into your life!

Here are a few ways you could implement Vine into your classroom or library today!
1. Teach students about making an inference or prediction.
2. Have students recreate scences from a novel.
3. Create picture displays for teaching vocabulary.
4. Quick and easy hooks when beginning a new unit.

Check out my son on Vine!