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Week 8

 Interacting about the hobby

Goal:

Students explore interactions in the forum, and analyse existing comments to create a model for writing their own questions.

Materials/Steps: Exploring interactions in the Reddit forum

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Check whether students have created an account on Reddit [Note: Only Reddit members are allowed to create and write responses on posts on subreddits]

Explain that the focus of the lesson is on interactions in the forum

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Open https://www.reddit.com/r/origami/

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Browse through the posts to see comments

  • Showing work

  • Making compliment: Wth for a split second it looked real, well done

  • Asking for specific instructions to do the hobby: What size paper did you start with? I remember book saying something like 2M !

  • Replying to the responses: 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.

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Ask students to discuss/share interesting comments and responses

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Materials/Steps:  Analysing forum interaction

Students do a keyword search of their hobby to analyse how Redditors respond to others’ posts

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Analyse overall patterns: students go to their subreddit and browse through the existing posts to identify how people interact on their subgroup

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Analyse frequency of words in the comments to identify patterns of Reddit forum interaction through https://www.wordandphrase.info/analyzeText.asp

(See the ‘Reddit origami responses’ file for the explanations of how to use the website to identify the word frequency list).

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Use corpora and concordance to identify usages of words through Wordandphrase.info

(See the ‘Collocates and concordance’   file for an example)

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Give students an opportunity to share and discuss:

  • Other possible ways to make use of the website 

  • Results from the analysis

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Writing responses

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