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Vicki Davis

Facebook Wants to Welcome Kids Under Age 13 to Social Network - Search Engine Watch (#SEW) - 12 views

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    One of my students turned up this information that Facebook is working on controls to help kids under 13 use the service. It is no surprise that 7.5 million Facebook users are under the age of 13 and that 5 million of THOSE are 10 years old or younger. COPPA, while set up to protect children, is actually keeping them from participating in society as they want to. This infographic and information is worth sharing as you educate your students. If you want until they are 13 to talk safety online, that is too late. "Last June, Consumer Reports magazine said they had unearthed "several disturbing findings" about children and Facebook, including: 20 million minors had used Facebook within the year prior to their study. 7.5 million of those users were under the age of 13 and not permitted to use the site. 5 million of those were 10 years old or younger. 1 million children had been harassed, threatened, or subjected to other forms of cyberbullying in the year prior."
Vicki Davis

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Friending 101 for Schools - 12 views

  • Anyone who has seen The Social Network finds Mark Zuckerberg's use of the word "friend" ironic as through the course of the movie we see him lose the few friends he has in order to gain the millions that are online. I've heard it is a mischaracterization (come on what billionare 20-something year old doesn't havea  lot of friends ;-) but nevertheless friend doesn't mean what you think.
  • Let's get this straight. We are talking about Facebook Friends (I call them FF's in class) and a Facebook friend has access to everything you put on your wall (unless you "list" them - more on that later.) It means that if you "friend" someone who hates you that they will be crawling your page and your life looking for something bad about you. It also means that if you "friend" your students and you skip school one day and post "I took a sick day to go to the mall." that you've just ratted yourself out -- in writing. Everyone will know, that sort of word travels fast.
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      great
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    This is my most popular post on Facebook and I still agree with the conclusions in this article.
Vicki Davis

Why You May Not Be Able to Claim Your Facebook Page Username Come Saturday - 0 views

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    OK< after all the hooplah about being able to claim a special username for your page -- the fine print says you have to have 1000 fans on Facebook to claim your name. This seems a bit high to Mashable and to others. Oh well, facebook is, well facebook.
Maggie Verster

A Simple Guide To Set Up Your School On Facebook - 11 views

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    "Creating a Facebook page for your school or college isn't as simple as it is when you're just creating a personal page. There are several pitfalls that I came across when doing so that Facebook simply hasn't addressed, and the administration process involved in adding schools on Facebook is more complex than a normal profile."
Carlos Martín

About us | Cosas que encuentro para clase - 2 views

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    Spin-off from the Facebook group with the same name which some teachers created last year. Most of us are teachers at Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas, and we like to share ideas, links and debate in Facebook, but we thought that all these posts would be better organized if we had a group so they wouldn't be lost among other entries in our personal Facebook wall. When the group started to grow (there are 92 of us already), we realized that we were missing some kind of categorization, so we thought a blog would do the trick. And here we are. We choose the ideas that are more popular among the posts in our group in Facebook and write a post here.
Vicki Davis

Faceless no more: Facebook admits errors | The Australian - 9 views

  • Staff reacted with shock and disbelief as they learned of the defacement of tribute pages set up to honour 12-year-old Elliott Fletcher and eight-year-old Trinity Bates.
  • Facebook stood accused of being faceless in Australia.
  • "Are people really doing that to a tribute page for a dead child? None of us as a group of people wants to see the product that we built used like that. It's awful."
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  • If Facebook is subject to the traditional rules of publishing, then it is legally responsible for all the content that it hosts -- a commercially untenable position for a company of just 1000 employees for 400 million users globally.
  • But in fact, there was no security breach -- the people who defaced the Bates and Fletcher tribute sites had Facebook accounts and the tribute groups or pages were left open for anyone to join or comment.
  • but people who set up tribute sites do not have to wait for the website to remove objectionable material. When a person sets up either a group or fan page on Facebook, they can set controls about who is allowed to join or post content and what types of content -- such as comments, photographs or videos -- are permitted. The person running the tribute page can also delete any content they want without any need for a higher authority to intercede.
  • the problem was compounded by the fact the group founder quit and the page was left without an administrator.
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    "Staff reacted with shock and disbelief as they learned of the defacement of tribute pages set up to honour 12-year-old Elliott Fletcher and eight-year-old Trinity Bates." This is an important article to discuss with students as the defacement of these pages happened because the group was set up for anyone to join and without moderation. Education Education prevents hurt and harm as happened in this case. Of course, it doesn't change the fact that Facebook, even though it is a global company, seems to have a centralized communications structure.
Mrs. Duarte

Can a Facebook page replace the need for a website? - 23 views

  • One thing is for certain: Custom Facebook page landing tabs have a huge impact on encouraging users to convert into followers.
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      If schools and nonprofits wish to make money they should also have initiatives on Facebooks.
    • Reba Gordon Matthews
       
      Our family has a non-profit organization and it is wonderful to learn about this Facebook initiative.
  • Guy Kawasaki’s post on how he chose a Facebook page
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      Guy is a great resource!!
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      Yes he is and the alltop education is very useful to give people that don't want to use an RSS reader.
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      Demonstrating to educators the power of annotated web.
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  • Vitaminwater
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      following Vitaminwater on FaceBook :) -shawnsieg
  • A targeted subsection of another site: If you need to brand and market a subset of your organization and the gap between the markets or messages is too diverse, a Facebook page might offer you a home on the web without the need to develop another site. That said, WordPress can be an easy way to get a strong site up and running – we’d recommend giving it a good look before ruling out another site.
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      Testing a sticky note...
Vicki Davis

Remains of the Day: Facebook May Let Strangers Message You For $1 - 2 views

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    With 7.5 million kids under 13 on Facebook, the idea that they are testing allowing strangers to message you for $1 is a problem. The whole COPPA/ Lie about your age to get on Facebook coupled with location based services on smartphones that don't require disclosure to parents is going to come to a head and if companies continue to pretend that lying on a checkbox absolves them of the responsbility to protect children, they are wrong.
Vicki Davis

Federal Trade Commission tells facebook they can no longer change privacy settings at will - 0 views

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    The days of randomly changing privacy settings that CHANGE EVERYTHING happening on Facebook are over. The FTC has told Facebook when they make changes that they must give people the chance to opt in. Good move, in my opinion.
Maggie Verster

Every Teacher's Must-Have Guide To Facebook - 25 views

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    You can't swing a stick in social media without hitting something on Facebook. Same goes for education. You can't talk about how technology is revolutionizing education without mentioning Facebook. It's a simple service to figure out but what about once you become a regular user? If you're a teacher, you would be well served by spending 3 minutes to read through this must-have guide. (We timed it out and it's a bit under 3 minutes. It's almost summertime, you can spare it for us!)
Jim Farmer

The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Guide [DOWNLOAD] - 6 views

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    Like Facebook, but wish your information wasn't so public? Time to lock your settings down. Facebook doesn't make this easy, however; features are constantly added and the default for each new one seems to favor transparency instead of privacy.
Gary Bertoia

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options - Graphic - NYTimes.com - 12 views

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    "To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet"
M Jesús García San Martín

Acercando Facebook al aula - 1 views

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    Iniciativa colaborativa de @londones, desde el I. E. Cañada Blanch de Londres, para acercar Facebook al aula de idiomas mediante vídeo-charla de Lord Richard Allan, director de Facebook en UK.
Susan Sedro

Facebook - Privacy settings recommended by Sophos - 0 views

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    Facebook walkthrough - adjust your privacy settings This guide walks you through Sophos-recommended privacy settings in Facebook, and shows you how to set more secure levels of privacy and reduce the chance of becoming a victim of online identity theft.
Dave Truss

Digital Citizen - thinking about Facebook, Friends and Teachers | Educational Origami - 17 views

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    From my perspective, being friends with students in an informal social medium like face book is fraught with dangers? Its like attending student parties. What do you think? *Note my comment & Chris Kennedy's!
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    A cross post from the original blog: As an avid Facebook user I'd have to give a big thumbs up to the consensus of the group. I, too, accepted friend requests from students and have stopped the practice. Our district developed a policy that strongly discourages teachers "friending" students on social networking platforms. This has made my life easier. When I receive friends requests I can decline and give them school policy as my reason. Students understand and it is never a big deal. It isn't just Facebook as I receive more friend requests through GoodReads. In response I am unrolling school GoodReads account for our learning commons, as well as a Facebook Group. This was we can be there for them in their network without crossing personal lines. Great discussion thread!
Vicki Davis

How Sharing Works Now (1) - 15 views

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    Facebook has "upped" their privacy to give you more granular control over who you share with. This is the overview and privacy settings have been simplified. Those of us following this are going to have to look at this AGAIn to see if we can use it with our students. Don't friend them yet. There are still issues (see Facebook Friending 101 for schools.)
Maggie Verster

Using Facebook for Learning - 0 views

  • According to the Educause report 7 Things You should Know About Facebook, “Facebook’s structure encour­ages users to view relationships in a broad context of learning, even as affiliations change—from high school to college to gradu­ate school to the workplace. By opening itself to virtually anyone, Facebook has become a model for how communities—of learn­ers, of workers, of any group with a common interest—can come together, define standards for interaction, and collaboratively cre­ate an environment that suits the needs of the members.”
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    Apps geared toward using Facebook as a tool for teaching and learning
Vicki Davis

Create a Facebook Page | Custom Fan Page Design - Pagemodo - 16 views

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    If you are a school and need help with your facebook page, this may be the option. Every school should have a facebook page in addition to your website. 
Vicki Davis

(1) Lill O Sperling - 3 views

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    You can communicate to your students on Facebook. Here is Lill O Sperling's Facebook fanpage. She is using it to communicate with her students. (You can follow this hip teacher at @LilOSperling
Vicki Davis

Drafts - Agile Tortoise - 4 views

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    IF you tweet or share a to a lot of apps, this app, Drafts will connect to just about anything. Type it, then decide where to send it, or you can save your most inspirational items to tweet, Facebook, or wherever later. It links with evernote, twitter, facebook, app.net, email, messages, calendars, dropbox, evernote, bufferapp, toodledoo and more (as well as ifttt.com integration.) I'm still learning about all the ways to use this handy tool. The only thing I wish it did is that I could add to it from the web and then see it on my ipad.
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