For a while, we've had an
emoji sheet by the classroom door in OH1 where students can choose a quick feedback on what they felt about the lesson that had just finished.
We saw an idea for using the
emojis as a resource and a stimulus for discussion during a lesson, and reflection on themes, by providing a symbol with several meanings
It was the work of
Jonathan Taylor, who tweets at
@HistGeoBritSec. He'd shared his ideas for megacities.
There are plenty of posts on the twitter feed, and quite a few teachers seem to have been using the idea following
Jonathan's session at Practical Pedagogies.
We created a bespoke set of emojis to related to the work we are doing on the
Nepal Earthquake. This goes
alongside the resource that Mr. Parkinson wrote for the British Red Cross, which has been very well received by lots of people.
Mr. Parkinson decided to try it with this context,
and came across this website where you are presented with a list of emojis and selecting a particular symbols adds it to a
tweet box, which can then be sent, and therefore
screenshotted...
There's also the
Emoji Copy website or Get Emoji, which allows you to build up a list by copying and pasting the icons into a box once again...
A few colleagues then tried the idea having seen it on my twitter feed, and had the idea of perhaps building up a 'library' of emoji boards for use in Geography.
And Mr. Parkinson came up with the name of 'emojiography' for this sort of activity....
Image: Alan Parkinson - example of student work
