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

Background information:  

Activity stages 

• Ask students whether they have managed to sign up for a Reddit account. More information on signing up for an account: https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060420092-How-do-I-sign-up-for-a-Reddit-account-

• Give students an opportunity to ask questions about using and creating an account on Reddit

• 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.