The most recent trend I’ve seen on Facebook is where someone asks a question and then tells you to answer with a GIF only. I’ve not actually responded to any, but I do enjoy going through the responses and seeing how people responded. I never gave it much more thought than that, until I was at a recent training.

I was spending the day at The Salon and Spa Professional Academy in Kenosha, WI and one of the educators shared this with me. They have a private Facebook group for their students and just a few days before they started chemistry, she posted this question:

She said the responses were great.

Some students were…

some were…

others were…

She said they were fun to look through and gave her good insight into the general mood of the students regarding the subject.

I think this I brilliant idea on how to introduce a new subject. Not just the one’s students struggle with like anatomy, diseases or chemistry, but the fun stuff too like hair color and haircutting. I like it because you can really get a feel for how students are feeling about a subject, it is incorporating a current trend which helps us relate more to our students and quite simply, it’s fun!

Let’s see if we can have a little fun too…

Thanks, TSPA – Kenosha for the great idea!!