Everyone's a critic
Please like me
Four actors
- You are playing the role of four social media influencers.
- Move to the four corners of the classroom. Create an Instagram post with your body and strike a still pose.
- When you have done this, you must come up with a caption for your post.
- Perform your caption in a stylised voice and announce it to the classroom audience.
Classroom audience
- You each have one like to give. From the centre of the room, view each of the four posts and vote with your feet.
- Move to the corner of the room to the influencer whose post you like the most.
What kind of content gets likes?
What kind of content gets likes?
- Which of the four 'Influencers' got the likes?
- What did they post, why was it effective?
Rinse and repeat
Rinse and repeat
Actors - You now have the opportunity to adjust your post.
Classroom audience - Recast your vote based on the changes that have now been made.
Discuss
Discuss
- Was there as a clear favourite out of the 4 performing Instagram posters?
- Did one poster receive more likes than a clear 'loser'?
- How did that make the 'loser' feel? What did they try and do to fix this?
Enquiry questions
Enquiry questions
- What kind of content gets likes?
- Do we make choices on what we post in order to get likes?
- Do we sometimes share more than we would normally be comfortable with in order to achieve likes?
- So, why do we need likes?