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Lesson Plan for Teachers

 Hobby course lesson 8 

The focuses of this lesson are to help students analyse forum interactions, and to help them identify useful words and phrases to successfully start discussions and interact with other hobbyists on the forum 

Task 1: Gaining an overview of forum interactions (Steps 1-5: Exploring interactions in the Reddit forum) 

Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to help students explore the Reddit forum's interactions 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • Explain to students that the focus of the lesson is on interactions in the forum, and that the teacher will use the Origami sub-reddit as an example 

  • Ask students to open https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/  

  • Ask students to browse through existing posts, choose 2-3 posts to see the interactions in the posts (through comments), and try to categorise the comments 

  • Ask for some volunteers to share interesting comments, responses, and types of comments 

Handouts:  

Answers/models/note: To illustrate types of comments on Reddit, teachers may use this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/comments/mpx9yh/american_alligator_by_michael_lafosse_folded_by/) as an example. The types of comments in the post include (1) Making compliment: Wth for a split second it looked real, well done (2) Asking for specific instructions to do the hobby: What size paper did you start with? I remember book saying something like 2M ! (3) Giving an instruction: I used 1×1meter paper which was perfect. Also the book says it's a 128 grid when it's in fact a 256 grid, so I'd say start with paper no less than that size. 

Task 2: Gaining an insight into the forum interactions (Steps 1-2: Analysing forum interaction) 

Purpose: The aim of this activity is to help students analyse comments and responses to understand how people interact with each other on Reddit. 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • Ask students to open their Reddit discussion group, and explain that, in their sub-reddit, they are going to analyse how Redditors respond to others’ posts  

  • Ask students to browse through the existing posts, choose 2-3 posts, look at comments to identify how other hobbyists interact on their subgroup. Students then elicit types of interactions (from the comments) 

  •  Analyse frequency of words in the comments to identify patterns of Reddit forum interaction through https://www.wordandphrase.info/analyzeText.asp (Use the ‘Collocates and concordance’ handout for an explanation as to how to generate a word frequency list using the website)  

  • Set up breakout rooms, and ask students to discuss (1) the most frequently used words from their analysis (2) how these words indicate how other hobby enthusiasts interact on the forum 

  • Ask for some volunteers to share the results 

Handouts: Collocates and concordance (https://3d527928-cc79-4ee7-9c10-b738b111b2fd.filesusr.com/ugd/c7cbef_48773f9ba5ad4e16a410cca975fa241e.pdf) Answers/models/note: For this activity, teachers may start with illustrating how to use Wordandphrase.info from the comments included in this handout (https://3d527928-cc79-4ee7-9c10-b738b111b2fd.filesusr.com/ugd/c7cbef_48773f9ba5ad4e16a410cca975fa241e.pdf). 

Task 3: Identifying useful words and phrases (Steps 4-6: Analysing forum interaction) 

Purpose: The aims of this activity is to demonstrate how students can make use of the website (Wordandphrase.info) to identify useful words and phrases to help them communicate successfully on Reddit 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • Ask students to open their Reddit discussion group 

  • Ask students to take comments from some posts, copy the comments and paste them onto the search box, and click search 

  • Explain that students can click on any word to identify usages of words through the concordance lines (See the instruction in the ‘Collocates and concordance’ handout) 

  • Give students an opportunity to share and discuss (1) other ways to use the website (2) some interesting chunks  

  • Explain that they should read the Reddiquette (https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette) before making a contribution on Reddit 

  • Set up breakout rooms for students to discuss other norms of interacting with other on Reddit (and probably on social medias)  

Handouts: Collocates and concordance (https://3d527928-cc79-4ee7-9c10-b738b111b2fd.filesusr.com/ugd/c7cbef_48773f9ba5ad4e16a410cca975fa241e.pdf) Answers/models/note:  

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