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Joh Fra03

Social Software, libraries & e-learning » Blog Archive » More about Facebook - 0 views

  • he survey found Facebook has become a really important social ‘glue’ to help build student communities, but that it’s role for teaching purposes is limited.
  • he also talked about how Facebook brings together different groups of people from different aspects of someone’s life. This theme came up later in the day, when we talked about a private or personal self as opposed to a more professional face.
Joh Fra03

TheRecord.com - Life - Teachers use Facebook to reach students - 0 views

  • MacNeil was already using his own website to post assignments, useful links and samples of work in his communications-technology class, so Facebook seemed a logical next step.
  • Looking through Vaughan's class Facebook page, there are several discussion topics being debated daily and students -- old and new -- posting messages by the hour.
  • "It wasn't that it was any better than sending an e-mail or anything like that, it was that they seemed more willing to accept that media over the other ones,'' says MacNeil.
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  • Vaughan says it was his students' idea to use Facebook and he has introduced it for the past three semesters with growing success."The students wanted to use it because it's a tool they already use and they (student teachers) also wanted to see if it was a tool they could use with their students in the future.''
  • eachers "are able to leverage a tool students already use instead of asking them to learn how to use a separate application,'' she says.
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