Set up a dedicated Facebook group for your class
A Facebook group can allow your students to create discussion boards,
communicate with each other and their teacher, and can be linked with online
projects & other classroom groups. Teachers can use these groups to send out
mass messages, reminders, and potentially even post homework assignments.
Use Facebook Apps
Facebook is more than a place to tag photos from last night’s not-so-clever
encounter with tequila. It is now a platform that runs on mobile devices, and
can be integrated with applications designed for learning. From news to learning
a new language, there are many apps that allow searches and sharing across the
platform.
Follow news feeds
If your students are working on a project involving anything from current
affairs to piracy, Facebook news feeds can be an alternative to Twitter in order
to enrich a project with real-time opinion and commentary. Not only this, but
you can sign up and join groups focusing on certain areas; such as student
education, U.S. healthcare, or politics.
Practice foreign languages
As a traveler and advocate of language learning, I found Facebook to be one
of best resources in which to find ‘language buddies’ to practice your writing
skills in a secondary language. There are groups that are dedicated to this —
and you can get feedback on your attempts. It is also possible to find events
and links to language-based resources.
Follow figures of interest
This can be done on both Twitter and Facebook, especially since the Timeline
roll-out and subscription service began. You do not have to be friends with the
person you wish to follow — as long as they allow subscriptions to their
profile, any public updates
Use the Facebook Timeline for class projects
The Facebook Timeline feature may not be the site’s most popular update, but
it can be used to create a project more interesting than a traditional Power
Point presentation.
Use Facebook Questions and polls
Why not upload a photo to your class Facebook group and ask your students to
comment? There are cases of this feature being used as a way to ask questions or
set a class task — such as identifying a species of animal or important figure.
Polls can be also used for research, opinion, or to generate a later classroom
discussion.
World War 1 became infamous for trench warfare, where troops were confined to
trenches because of tight defenses. This was especially true of the Western Front.
World
War 1, also known as the First World War or the Great War and the War to End All Wars, was a world
conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919, with the fighting lasting
until 1918.
Here is the PBS website about the Vietnam War. There is a map along with a timeline with events. It also provides a teacher guide for lesson in American History.
Another North African mathematician, al-Hassar, about the same time developed the modern way of writing fractions, with a bar separating the top from the bottom, like 1/2 or 2/7. Al-Hassar also wrote textbooks in Arabic about how to add whole numbers and fractions, how to calculate square roots and cube roots, and prime numbers
By 3000 BC, people in Egypt were using hieroglyphs to write down very large numbers.