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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Browse through the posts to see comments
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Showing work
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Making compliment: Wth for a split second it looked real, well done
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Asking for specific instructions to do the hobby: What size paper did you start with? I remember book saying something like 2M !
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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://tagcrowd.com
(See the ‘Analysing responses using TagCrowd’ file file for the explanations of how to use the website to identify the word frequency).
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Use corpora and concordance to identify usages of words through CorpusMate and DeepSeek AI
(See the ‘Using CorpusMate and DeepSeek for concordance analysis’ file for an example)
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Give students an opportunity to share and discuss:
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Other possible ways to make use of the website
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Results from the analysis
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Writing responses
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Students read Netiquette on https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette
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Students brainstorm other basic norms of interacting with other Reddit subscribers.
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