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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

Kapp Notes: Teens, Tweens and Social Networking - 0 views

  • Online social networking is now so deeply embedded in the lifestyles of tweens and teens that it rivals television for their attention...Nine- to 17-year-olds report spending almost as much time using social networking services and Web sites as they spend watching television. Among teens, that amounts to about 9 hours a week on social networking activities,compared to about 10 hours a week watching TV.
  • any students engage in highly creative activities on social networking sites...Overall, an astonishing 96 percent of students with online access report that they have ever used any social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and visiting online communities
  • Eighty-one percent say they have visited a social networking Web site within the past three months and 71 percent say they use social networking tools at least weekly.
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  • Students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education. Almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork.
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