Jun 01 2009
A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Learning About Facebook
As regular readers of this blog know, earlier today Sue Waters, as part of the Edublogs Live Events, helped get me set-up with my very own Facebook page, which can be seen here. I’m still getting a handle on how it all works, but it’s a beginning!
I’ve posted about how it seems to me that Facebook is the online space most used by teachers — more so than blogs or Twitter — so it seemed to make sense to go “where the people are.”
In my effort to learn more about the ins-and-outs of how to use Facebook, I thought I’d prepare a short list of resources I plan on exploring over the next few days and weeks. I know that Sue will also be posting a recording of today’s Webinar soon, so I’d encourage you to watch that, too, since it’s specifically geared towards teachers. (Actually, Sue has just posted The Elluminate recording to Pimp My Facebook)
I’ve only found a few other resources that I thought were particularly usefulf for Facebook newbies like myself, but I’ve got to believe there is a lot more out there. That’s why I’ve just called this “A Beginning List…” Please leave suggestions in the comments section.
I’m only looking at Facebook as a way to make professional (and continue some personal) connections. However, I also know that there is a lot of controversy about if and how teachers should use it to connect with students.
I don’t include any resources offering commentary on that issue, but I’m hopeful that readers can suggest some good ones.
Here are my picks forA Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Learning About Facebook:
Facebook 101 is offered by the Goodwill Community Foundation. This resource is not designed for English Language Learners, but another one of their projects, The Everyday Life Project, is on The Best Sites For K-12 Intermediate English Language Learners list.
Expert Village has several online video tutorials.
The publishers of the famous “Dummies” series of books has two online videos on Facebook basics.
Sue has written a post titled How To Import Your Blog Posts Into Facebook. In it, she invites comments from others about advice to educators on using Facebook, so it’s well worth reading the post and the comments (and contributing some yourself!)
Suggestions and feedback, as always, are welcome.
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Good list. I also like this article on privacy settings for Facebook that teachers should be aware of… http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/
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I have been playing with Facebook all weekend. I wish that I had seen your links before I signed up! I will definitely be taking a look at the Facebook 101 class this evening as well as listening to Sue Waters’ presentation. I’m not sure how I want to use it when it comes to education and am hoping for some ideas from the presentation.
BTW I did send a request to you to be my friend. One “friend” that I added this morning is a Facebook account that has been set up for the troops in Afghanistan. You get immediate news as it comes out of Afghanistan and according to the morning paper it is faster than the authorized sources. My main purpose in doing this was to find a “troop” that my students could send letters and cards to for the holidays; and if we get our service learning grant again, to send boxes for Valentine’s Day. We’ve done it in the past for both Christmas and Valentine’s Day, but find that there are a lot of groups out there doing something for Christmas but not Valentine’s Day. The Army’s Facebook page today was filled with messages from the folks at home. On the left-hand side there are links to photos from the troops in Afghanistan. I’ll let you know how the projects go!
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