why i use facebook. (and why you should, too.)
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Why I Use Facebook. (And why you should, too.). Elizabeth A. Evans UNC-Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning December 2007. Scope. Your kids and Facebook/MySpace Legal, moral, ethical issues of student use “How to” create, use, configure. Scope. Features that might be useful… - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Why I Use Facebook.(And why you should,
too.)Elizabeth A. Evans
UNC-Chapel HillITS Teaching and Learning
December 2007
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Scope
Your kids and Facebook/MySpace Legal, moral, ethical issues of
student use “How to” create, use, configure
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Scope
Features that might be useful… Issues related to use…… to and for us, to and for our faculty,
to and for other campus staff
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You Talk
How many of you use Facebook?
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And?
Any other social networks?
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You Talk Some More
Anybody not have a basic understanding of
what Facebook is?
This is gonna be hard…
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A Very Short Definition
Facebook is a Web-based service that makes it possible for individuals in high schools, universities, corporations, non-profits, the military, and geographic communities (primarily English-speaking ) to interact with each other and to share information.
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And…
It’s free for individuals…
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A Very Short History
In 2004, a student at Harvard thought it would be cool to develop a way for Harvard students to connect with each other. Now there are millions of Facebook users.
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“So, what’s a social gal like you doing in a virtual place like this?”
del.icio.us
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How and When I Came to Facebook
Fall 2005(30 minutes)
Fall 2006(Several hours,some people, a couple of groups,some effort)
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How and When I Came to Facebook
September 2006
Women's center brown bag: Dangers of online social networks
Danah Boyd talk on social networking(On the same day!)
I was obviously missing something.
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Your turn
When I logged back into Facebook, what was (almost) the first thing I did?
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Back to the Drawing Board
Created a more complete profile Searched for campus faculty and staff Posted some photos (N=8) Wrote my first note September 29 Posted (and removed) links Created an event September 26 And more…
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Today
Profiles Events Groups Notes Applications “Fan of…” Mini-Feed
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On Your Own
Everything else :-)
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Your Profile
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Let’s Talk Specifics
What can and should go on your profile?
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Events
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Events I’ve Created
Games4Learning symposium Cyberinfrastructure: A Campus Perspective Discussion: The (Technology) Tipping Point From Learning Objects to Learning Impact: An Update on the IMS... Instructional Uses for Facebook Immersive Learning Environments ITS Open Lunch A Virtual Environment for Education: Second Life ITS Coffee Klatch And a few others…
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An example event
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Event example, part 1
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Event example, part 2
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Event example, part 3
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An Funny Thing Happened…
More than 50% of the “Yes” RSVPs were not people I invited.
“Instructional Uses for Facebook”
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Another Funny Thing Happened…
I invited 48 people. At the time of the event, 95 people were invited.
“The (Technology) Tipping Point”
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Groups
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Group Example
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Group Example, Part 1
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Group Example, Part 2
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Groups: Advantages
Feeling of community Place to post news/info/etc Can be open or with approval Event sponsorship Others?
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Groups: Disadvantages
Lots of them Little activity in many of them Not easy (yet) to see what’s new Others?
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Notes
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Go Heels (she said, quietly)
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Applications
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Mini-Feed
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A Few Conclusions
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Conclusions
Social networking can be very powerful Social networking can be a time sink Social networking can enhance
professional relationships Social networking can be used for
marketing We don’t yet know all the ways we
might use social networking professionally…
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Explore.Experiment.
Be Open.
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Final Call: Questions? Comments?