Storytelling is an integral part of our personal and educational lives. We share micro-stories everyday on a variety of platforms, yet frequently fail to recognize the hidden poignant tales embedded in the hashtags and status updates. This session explores some innovative uses of social media tools (Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Storify, etc.) that can lead to story creation or “storyfinding”. Since social media is inherently social, many of these projects involve crowdsourcing and collaboration. Inspire your students’ creativity, learning, and cultivation of web literacies - the possibilities are endless. You can even emulate some of the ideas in an analog fashion for younger students.

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