{"id":17953,"date":"2015-04-20T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T17:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2015-04-20T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T17:21:26","slug":"faking-social-media-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/20\/faking-social-media-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Faking Social Media Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite projects has students creating social media updates from someone else&#8217;s point of view. Students choose fictional or nonfictional characters and then create Tweets, Facebook status updates, and Instagram posts. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tengrrl\/17006625277\" title=\"Three Little Pigs Tweet by tengrrl, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8766\/17006625277_19e62a760e_n.jpg?resize=320%2C164&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"164\" alt=\"Three Little Pigs Tweet\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The challenge is that I don&#8217;t want to encourage students to litter the Information Superhighway with dozens of throw-away accounts, used for maybe a dozen posts and then abandoned. For me, a collection of tools that let students fake social media updates has been the answer. I&#8217;ve listed <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bedfordstmartins.com\/bits\/teaching-with-technology\/tools-for-faking-social-media\/tgardner\/\" title=\"Tools for Faking Social Media\" target=\"_blank\">my favorites<\/a> in a post on my Bedford Bits blog.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tengrrl\/17006625277\" title=\"Three Little Pigs Tweet by tengrrl, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\">Fake Tweet created by tengrrl with simitator.com<\/a>. Three Pigs profile photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sarah_mccans\/229285189\" title=\"three little piggies by sarahemcc, on Flickr\">sarahemcc, on Flickr<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite projects has students creating social media updates from someone else&#8217;s point of view. Students choose fictional or nonfictional characters and then create Tweets, Facebook status updates, and Instagram posts. The challenge is that I don&#8217;t want to encourage students to litter the Information Superhighway with dozens of throw-away accounts, used for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-with-digital-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-4Fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17959,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}