comics, crowd-sourcing and up-votes: efl on the front page of the internet

Comics, crowdsourcing

and upvotes:EFL on the front page of the Internet

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Social media website

What is reddit?

reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

Social media website

What is reddit?

•Link aggregator

•All content is user-submitted and voted upon by the community

•The most popular content appears on the “front page”

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Popularity and userbase

Nearly 35 million unique page views

Most users are male between the ages of 24-35

65% 10% 6% 3% 1.5%

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Content

reddit What’s reddit? Rage comics Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & Tips

Content

Top 5 subreddits1.funny2. pics3 politics4. science5. gaming

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Introduction to rage faces• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.

• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.

Slides used:

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 1

• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.

• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.

Slides used:

Introduction to rage faces

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 1

• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.

• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.

Slides used:

Introduction to rage faces

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 1

• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.

• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.

Slides used:

Introduction to rage faces

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 1

• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.

• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.

Slides used:

Introduction to rage faces

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 1

Introduction to rage faces

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 2 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 1

• General introduction to the vocabulary for emotions in English.

• Students asked to guess the emotion of a selection of rage faces.

Slides used:

Introduction to rage faces

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

• Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

• Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

•Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

• Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

•Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

• Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

•Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

• Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

•Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

• Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

•Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

• Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Examples Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2

Comic making!• Introduced the concept of trolling.

• Students registered on reddit.

• Used ragemaker.net to make rage comics.

•Commented on other peoples comics.

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics ExamplesLesson 2

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics ExamplesLesson 2

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics ExamplesLesson 2

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics ExamplesLesson 2

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics ExamplesLesson 2

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics ExamplesLesson 2

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Reactions Hints & TipsRage comics ExamplesLesson 2

For more, log in and have a look!r/EFLcomics

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Student reactions

I was able to receive real English comments!

What did you like about the project?

I was impressed that readers not only read my comic, but left

their impressions also

It was good to share my comics with people overseas via the net

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Student reactions

It would be better if we had more time (to make the comics)

What didn’t you like about the project?

It would be good if we had some instruction on how to reply to comments (I want to use some

English slang)

It’d be nice if the pictures moved.

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Community reactions

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2 ReactionsExamples

Community reactions

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 Hints & TipsRage comics Lesson 2 ReactionsExamples

Community reactions

Current numbers:

• More than 7,200 subscribers• Average of 17 comments per comic• Top comics received more than 300,000 views•14 comics have been featured on the “front page” (top 100) of reddit.

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Hints

•NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content•Youtube video (How to register)•Monitor comments

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 ReactionsRage comics Lesson 2 Hints and TipsExamples

Hints

•NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content•Youtube video (How to register)•Monitor comments

reddit What’s reddit? Lesson 1 ReactionsRage comics Lesson 2 Hints and TipsExamples

Hints

•NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content•Youtube video (How to register)•Monitor comments