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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Thing 14-Social Networking

So I'm not even going to pretend that I just joined a social networking site. I am full on facebook addict. I love it so much that I even sucked it up and got internet for my phone so that I could never be without my facebook updates. I love it for the social value of seeing my friends both old, new, and work in their lives. If feel that it allows you to feel connected to people even if you might not have time for a full on phone call you can still see how they are doing and post quick comments to them. In fact this week one of our fellow teachers got married and although not everyone in our staff was in attendance, at some level we were after the fact as many of us got to see the wedding photos and make comments to the bride to help be part of her day. As far as educational value this might be tough. I feel like facebook is a part of my life that is private with my friends etc and I keep my setting set that way. I always tell students that they can not request me as a friend until the graduate because then for me it seems acceptable. I think to use a social network site for school would be tough. I would though consider a facebook page for the class of 2012 to keep students informed about what is going on and the newest class information. I am thinking this might be nice to do along with a wiki for the class.
Posted by Momma Hunt at 5:50 PM

1 comments:

joanandmaureen said...

I KNOW you are a FB addict! :) I have used FB Pages for our NHS Library Homepage to communicate information to students about summer reading and to share book trailer etc.(You can become a fan! - search NHS Library to check us out) My class officers also used FB to coordinate prom committee meetings -- they set up a group and then set up meetings as events so all the members were reminded and they got to reply - it worked great. ANd, oh yah -- this works! I can comment - YES! Maureen

August 2, 2010 at 9:23 PM

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