Culture is learned socially through shared behavior that contributes to group identity. Understand the context of current events and the memes we use as our social language.

Related Activities

Create a meme
Transpose a meme to a new form
Research a Geek term or event
Discuss current news
Teach Geek history to others

Badges Needed

Selfie

  • Take a still from a Geek movie you haven’t seen and caption it.
  • Recreate a meme using play-doh.
  • Add a sketchnote of a definition to our Geek Dictionary
  • Have someone to show you how they researched a topic, and try to use those strategies to investigate a recent Geek news item.
  • Write a blog post about your experience preparing for and giving a talk about an important moment in Geek history.

Friendship Is Magic

  • Create a variation of the “Hey, Girl” meme that reflects best practices for improving mental health.
  • Help construct a physical form of a digital meme created by another camper.
  • Add five new terms with reference links to our Geek Dictionary.
  • Organize a discussion in which participants role play different perspectives about Edward Snowden’s actions.
  • Explain a topic from three different perspectives.

Minecraft Steve

  • Compare the user experience of two different meme creation tools.
  • Make a t-shirt depicting a variation of a digital meme.
  • Create a web page listing 10 geeky things to do in Bloomington.
  • Create a custom search for Google that pre-selects sites that are likely to have new Geek information.
  • To help someone explain a Geek Dictionary term, recreate an illustrative image using PinBlocks.

ALL THE THINGS

  • Write the backstory for the actual circumstances of a photo used for a new image meme.
  • Create a silk screen design of an Internet meme.
  • Add an picture (with proper attribution) to a Geek Dictionary entry to illustrate what that term is about.
  • List other three contemporary events that may have contributed to a specific Geek news item.
  • Create a 5-slide powerpoint explaining a term from our Geek Dictionary.

Most Interesting Man

  • Convince 10 people to post content propagating your new meme.
  • Guess the one-word response 5 other people will use to describe your Pinblock creation of an Internet meme.
  • Find other examples of a Geek Dictionary, and explain three specific lessons our Geek Dictionary project can learn from them.
  • Promote a hashtag chat about a current Geek news event you will facilitate.
  • Contribute two questions to a quiz about information contained in our Geek Dictionary.

Hey, Girl

  • Introduce a new photo meme and get 5 other people to post their version.
  • Apologize to someone using three different memes.
  • Ask someone you meet what they thing #GamerGate is and video the response.
  • Add a comment to a blog post about a current geeky news item
  • Explain an infamous Internet incident from the point of view of the instigator