This week we’re introducing a wonderful social media software, Instagram.
Instagram is a social media app which permits customers to share pictures and video clips. As social media websites like Fb (which its value noting is the mum or dad firm which owns Instagram) proceed to fall by way of use amongst youthful customers apps similar to Instagram are thriving notably amongst the 16-24 age group and so could be a great way of participating and speaking with college students in a format they discover participating and relatable.
Instagram means that you can:
- Add pictures onto your account and share them with different customers.
- Touch upon different customers’ posts and feedback.
- Use Instagram Tales that are brief video clips or pictures which you could annotate with textual content, drawings or different visible content material.
- Observe hashtags on sure matters and tendencies.
- Observe different Instagram customers and tag them in your content material.
- Livestream your self and permit different customers to co-livestream with you on the similar time utilizing the “Dwell” function.
- Put up questions in your Tales that your followers can reply to.
Info on tips on how to create and arrange your account will be discovered on the Instagram assist website.
annotated picture in Instagram
Is it free?
Instagram is totally free. You’ll merely must obtain the app after which create an account both utilizing an present electronic mail handle or a Fb account .
Will it work on my system?
Instagram works on Android and iOS. It’s also attainable to view Instagram pictures on net browsers, however net customers can’t add content material.
The place can I get the app?
Google Play (for Android)
iTunes (for ipad/iphone)
Concepts for utilizing Instagram in studying and educating
- Use to collectively construct a visible useful resource round a subject. You may use a hashtag to gather posts collectively, or create a group dialog to share and touch upon posts.
- Use the Tales sticker function to create polls.
- Create role-playing studying situations the place college students put themselves within the place of others and attempt to work out what kind of content material they’d put up, taking up the function of a well-known historic or fictional literary determine for instance.
Conclusion
If you want assist with utilizing Instagram or to debate how this or some other digital instruments may provide help to in your educating or studying please get in contact with the TEL group.
Canvas Coaching
Locations are filling up quick on our Canvas Fundamentals coaching workshops. We strongly encourage all Sussex tutorial employees to join a spot. Attending the workshop will familiarise you with Canvas and your choices for educating with the brand new VLE. It additionally offers you entry to your migrated modules from 17/18.
