Students sat down to their Literature Class at Las Dalton Encinas on Friday to a new project; a partner project on social media. Everyone was told that they would be paired up with someone else in class and the assignment is making a fake social media account and curating it for your partner for a week. You don’t have to do anything for this, but it would be fun if you did. Feel free to reach out to each other ooc to plot with this too.
“Social media is now the best place for us to introduce ourselves to others and the world, right? What we reveal or what we hide about ourselves tells the story of who we are. And that is why we will be working in pairs. You will need to create your partner’s profile for a social media platform of your choosing. We can demonize social networks, like they do in other places, or we can use them as tools for learning. Get the most out of this opportunity, get close to your partner but keep it appropriate. And most of all, adapt it to your goal. Please, be creative. Use photos, videos, interviews, anything. You have access to all of the resources here at Las Dalton Encinas.
How this will work is simple, you will all get together outside of class with your partner to talk about how you want to go about representing each other. You will all keep your own social media accounts, don’t worry, you won’t be handing over passwords; the accounts for this project will be made brand new. They can be on any social media networking platform, including Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, etc. You may open up accounts on more than one platform, but only one is required. You will run your partner’s new social media account, and you will do your best to represent them. That means you’re going to have to get to know each other. You will continue to run this social media account for a full week, at which point we will be speaking about this again.”
➽ Las Dalton Encinas social media project partners:
GOING TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
The ooc view for how this will work is simple too. You will continue to post roleplay as your own character, and you will continue to post content for your own character’s main social media accounts. You can plot ooc to use this for plotting purposes once partners are assigned and you now have a reason to reach out to someone ic too. Think about secrets that your character has or things that nobody knows about your character and how you might be able to use that. You can watch Elite episode 2 to find out how it is used for plots on the show, or consider any Glee source material involving two people being alone together and how that opens up plotting potential. The characters that are not attending Las Dalton Encinas are more than welcome to participate as well, perhaps inspired ic by what they’re hearing and seeing about the project. Mention in the ooc blog whether or not you want to participate in this for me so that I can pair people up accordingly, so everyone that wants to use this has the option.
You don’t have to do anything at all, these aren’t real school projects and nobody is going to be failing you if you don’t participate, but this is something that you can use to give yourself a reason to be on the dash.
Once I have handed out partners and you have figured out how your characters are going to hang out to get to know each other, whether you do that ic or ooc, you can then start making social media posts for your character’s partner. You get to make up a URL, pick a social media platform, and post whatever you want, knowing that the goal is to show who the other character is in a full sense. That means more than pictures, it can mean so many things. Think of how eclectic and full a personal Tumblr blog can be, or your Instagram or Twitter. Text posts, aesthetics, moodboards, memes, gifsets, videos from YouTube, and anything else you can think of is on the table. You can even write out full interviews in character through para, phone call, text, pm, etc and then post those in interview format. To keep track of these, I’ll be posting them on the @elitestarters blog so just @ the blog like you do for open starters.
