Presented by: Denise Knowles
Contact Information Denise Knowles Los Medanos College Web Application Specialist Email: dknowles@losmedanos.edu
2700 East Leland Blvd. Pittsburg, CA 94565-5197 (925) 439-2181, ext 3481 Fax: (925) 427-1599
Personal Motto “I would rather motivate and teach a student a discipline than just teach them the discipline� ~Denise Knowles
Are You On Facebook?
So many students, teachers, and librarians are on Facebook these days This social media site has become a free platform that educator can use. We are going to look at some of the applications and tools that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer for education. And, how to set up a group for a course or project. www.facebook.com
Observing Students
The Library is a place to observe the study habits and social behavior of students Walk through your library
and observe the students at the computers. What are they working on?…..I bet 80% are on Facebook
Why not use a tool they already know and are using
Surveyed and Observed Students at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Observed that they were answering paper questionnaires: They were bored Looking at their watches Fooling around
Surveyed a group of college students at the aquarium: If you were asked to use your cell
phones to answer the questions regarding the aquarium, would you prefer it? ○ “Yes!!! What a great idea!!!!”
Do you have a device that would
enable you to this? ○ All said, “yes.”
(there were at least 20 students)
Why don’t we use the technology our students love and possess to engage them?
The Average College Student’s Media of Choice
Students come to campus with a mountain of devices. Projected annual technology spending among college students (ages 18-30) has reached an all time high of $6.5 billion annually* They spend a significant part of their day engaged with their must-have "tech" gadgets. Students' have an increasing mobility and need for 24/7 connection They have a rapid year-over-year increases in ownership of both laptops and MP3 players. Desktop ownership for 18-30 years old college students is down to 46%; while laptops are now more preferred by 18-30 year olds at 75% of students reporting ownership *.
*College Explorer Survey (2009). Alloy Media & Marketing. Totally Wired Campus – The Class of 2013 Gets High “Tech” Grades: Retrieved from : http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/clientnews/Alloy_Media_Marketing_WiredCampus_Nov12_2009.pdf [2010, January 25].
The World is a mobile device’s oyster
Data from http://www.gsm.org/counter.aspx
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications: Most popular mobile phone standard GSM is considered a second generation (2G) mobile phone system. It enables the wide-spread implementation of data communication applications into the system. Presently, we are at the 4G level. According to my calculation (2/25/2010), 62% of the world’s population has access to data applications through their mobile devices.
Data from http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
Cell Phone Are Part of Our Anatomy
Nine out of every 10 Americans own a cell phone More people have cell phones than an Internet connections . On average, American individuals get a new mobile device approximately every 18 months . 1
Retrieved from: http://streetknowledge.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/cellphonesbrain-cancer/
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New York Times Bits (October 17, 2008), AT&T Wants More Web-Enabled Devices. Retrieved from: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/att-wants-more-webenabled-devices/ [February 23, 2010]. 2
GSM World (October 2006), Mobile Phone Lifecycles:Use, Take-back, Reuse and Recycle. Retrieved from: http://www.gsmworld.com/documents/health/research/GSMA_200610_MobileLifecycles_Final_English.pdf / [February 23, 2010].
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Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent
MARKET SHARE OF U.S. INTERNET VISITS TO TOP 5 SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
Rank
Name
Sept 2009
Aug 2009
Sept 2008
Year-over-year percent change
1
58.59%
55.15%
19.94%
194%
2
MySpace
30.26%
33.00%
66.84%
-55%
3
Tagged
2.38%
2.36%
1.62%
47%
4
1.84%
1.95%
0.15%
1170%
5
myYearbook
1.05%
1.16%
1.76%
-40%
Experian Hitwise. (October 9, 2009). Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent in Past Year. Retrieved from : http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/social-networking-sept-09 [2010, January 25].
MySpace is on its way out Facebook and Twitter are the hot trends Why not incorporate these power houses into our classrooms to engage students. Shouldn’t you be using the hottest trend rather than the social networking site you prefer.
Facebook Top Search Term in 2009
According to Experian® Hitwise® Facebook was the top-searched term overall for 2009. This is the first time that the social networking Website has been the top search term Facebook accounted for 1.09% of all searches. In fact, four variations of the term "facebook" were among the top 25 terms.
Experian Hitwise. (December 15, 2009). Facebook Top Search Term in 2009. Online Retrieved from : http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/facebook-top-search-termin-2009/ [2010, January 25].
Top 10 Searches and Websites Top 10 most-searched terms
Top 10 most-visited Websites
2009
2008
2009
2008
myspace
www.google.com
www.google.com
myspace
craigslist
mail.yahoo.com
mail.yahoo.com
craigslist
ebay
www.facebook.com
www.myspace.com
youtube
www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.com
yahoo mail
myspace.com
www.myspace.com
mail.live.com
yahoo
mail.live.com
www.ebay.com
yahoo
youtube
www.youtube.com
search.yahoo.com
ebay
yahoo mail
search.yahoo.com
www.msn.com
facebook login
yahoo.com
www.msn.com
www.facebook.com
myspace.com
www.ebay.com
www.youtube.com
Experian Global Press Office. (2009). Facebook Top Search Term in 2009. Online Retrieved from : http://press.experian.com/documents/showdoc.cfm?doc=3724/ [2010, February 18].
Facebook Ideas:
Post lesson plans and notes. Instructors can post lesson plans. Students and other instructors can benefit from having access to these lesson plans. Just add a link to the plan. Post Class Notes. a great place to post notes before and after class. Students who missed a class won’t be completely in the dark and instructors can refer back to notes. Set up Events. a great place to post events. Role Playing. Students acts as a famous character that is relate to your topic. This character posts things that pertain to their history. For example, someone role plays FDR and another role plays an advisor of that time with actual historical facts. Posting A Project. The student post their progress on a project. Or, comments / reports on the subject. Such as a museum visit. Book Reports. As a student is reading a book, they post their thoughts and impression; along with reporting on what is going on. They would do this over the course of reading the book. It would document that they really read the book and didn’t wait until the 11th hour. ie post: Gone with the Wind, pages 250-300, “Scarlett will never be hungry again. It made me sad to read her pain.” Celebrating student work Sharing events and announcements Announcing events Use Videos to Share Tips, Advice, and Lessons to Parents and Students Connecting with Other Classes
Old Art Assignment Example ď‚ž ď‚ž
Students are asked to visit an art museum The student is asked to describe the artwork they are viewing; name; artist; type; thoughts/impressions; etc.
New Age Art Assignment Example ď‚ž
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Students have the option of visiting an art museum using handhelds The student is asked to describe the artwork they are viewing through Facebook or Twitter; name; artist; type; thoughts/impressions; etc.
Did You Know Abraham Lincoln Is Tweeting?
A graduate student at Utah State University is using Twitter to send short messages out to the world in the voice of Abraham Lincoln and other historical figures. On his site TwHistory, a Web site devoted to historical re-enactments via Twitter. TwHistory has staged such reenactment as the battle of Gettysburg. Where re-enactors write in the voice of a handful of key characters, including Lincoln. Each Twitter account that a person is trying to portray represents a historical figure. For example, one graduate student writes Tweets using exact quotes from the diaries of soldiers. These re-enactments can be used as learning exercises for students. You can assign students to research historical diaries and other sources to write their own tweets.
Mobile Web
You can use the main features of the site with m.facebook.com, such as... wall posts adding friends uploading photos and creating events.
Information on: http://www.facebook.com/h elp/?page=823
Texting
You can text Facebook to:
update your status send a poke on the go receive texts Pokes wall posts from your friends right when they happen. Standard text message rates apply.
Mobile Texting: http://www.facebook.com/hel p/?page=821 Good resource for how to accomplish certain tasks: http://www.facebook.com/hel p/?page=821#!/mobile/?texts
Projects Example
In this example, the students are using the discussion board to journalize their reading progress for a book report. The date and time is recorded when a student posts. So, deadlines can be followed. Not as robust as a CMS discussion board. Students can post to this site from their mobile devices.
Application Example weRead
Book application on Facebook. List, rate, and write reviews for the books you have read. Great idea for an engaging book report. Navigate to: http://www.facebook.com/apps/applic ation.php?v=wall&id=2406120893
Click on “Go To Application”
Facebook Applications For Learning
Facebook offers many applications that pertain to education You can find Applications for Education at: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v =app_2344061033&ref=profile&id=100 000650498842#/apps/directory.php?a pp_type=0&category=200
English Project Ideas For WeRead
As a course introduction they can find their favorite book and mark it as a favorite. They can search for a book and take a quiz on the book. Debate about a book with others. Which can prompt them to get passionate about reading
Applications that can be used for education
myPersonality: makes real psychological research accessible, fun and interactive. Quizzes: social quizzing system. Flow through over a million different user generated quizzes. Books iRead: Share the books you're reading, and see what others think of books with this application. DoResearch4me: This app makes it easy to gather information using your thesis statement, instructions, and more. Flashcards: With this application, you can create flash cards to help you study on Facebook. Wikiseek Search: Use this research tool to find Wikipedia articles and more through Facebook. SkoolPool: Get the lowdown on schools, online and otherwise, with this neat application. Rate My Professors: Find out what other students think of professors before you register for their class. JSTOR Search: Find full text research articles on Facebook with this application. Notely: Organize your school life with Notely, an app that helps you wrangle your calendar, notes, assignments, and more. Study Groups: Get everyone together on your group project by collaborating with this application. Get Homework Help: This application will get you connected with tutors and other students that can help you with your assignments. SwapRoll: Save money on textbooks by trading them with the Swap Roll application. Notecentric: Take notes right inside of Facebook and share them with classmates using this application.
Applications that can be used for education (con’t)
Class Notes: Use this application to find scanned notes for your classes on Facebook. For Teachers and Administrators Share assignments, slides, and so much more with these applications. BookTag: This app offers a great way to share and loan books out to students, plus create helpful quizzes for studying. Webinaria Screencast Recorder: Record a video for students, and share it with this application. Mathematical Formulas: Distribute formulas, solutions, and more with this application. SlideShare: Create presentations to send to students with this slideshow application. For Everyone These apps are great for just about anyone in online education. Calendar: This calendar app from 30 Boxes lets you organize your days, set reminders and share your calendar with others. To-Do List: Stay on top of your tasks with this Facebook to-do application. Zoho Online Office: With this office application, you can keep all of your documents online, and even share them with classmates, students, and colleagues. Courses: Courses offers loads of functionality for online education, with features that let you add your courses, post announcements and assignments, search university reviews find classmates, create discussions and form study groups. Files: Powered by Box.net, this application makes it easy to store and retrieve documents in Facebook, so you can access them anywhere you have a connection. WorldCat: Use WorldCat to do research, catalog your library's collection, and share information with students. HeyMath!: These mini-movies explain difficult math concepts, so these are great to share with students or use on your own. CourseFeed: Take advantage of CourseFeed's class sharing, announcements, file storage, notifications, and more on Facebook.
Facebook’s New Security
On May 26th, 2010 Facebook announced they were rolling out new, simpler settings for controlling what you share. Read about the changes at http://bit.ly/dwUHfb Facebook and Privacy Page: living resource for information on how to control your sharing as well as a forum for discussing privacy with the people who use Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/security
Facebook Account Advice
Do not use your personal profile for course integration Create an account that is with your campus email or create a mock email account on Hot Mail. Gmail, or Yahoo. You can only have one account per email address. So, a mock account for a course section is a great idea This is my account I only use for education purposes. This is also called my Wall. Your Wall is a place where you and your friends can post content, such as photos and messages.
Your Facebook Profile
Click “Edit My Profile” to open the editing screen to edit your information. Only add data that pertains to business information.
Setting Your Basic Profile
You can set your Basic Info Profile Picture
You can set and change your basic settings
Relationships (single,
married, etc.) Likes and Dislikes Education and Work Contact Info
Privacy Settings
Under Account, Click on “Privacy Settings”
It is important to make this site private. If you have private contacts in your Outlook, Facebook invades your privacy and grabs those email addresses. Then connects those contacts with their Facebook account and grabs their friends that have similarities as you. For example: Facebook accounts that are using the losmedanos.edu email accounts will be matched up with you. Click on “Account” at the top of your page. Short menu should appear Click on “Privacy Settings.”
Privacy Settings (Con’t)
What Setting is chosen
The settings you choose, control which people and applications can see your information. You can share your information with friends, friends of friends or everyone. I suggest you change everything but your profile picture to “Friends Only.” This way only students you accept as friends can see your profile. You can Click on the “View Settings” at the top of the page to view what others will see with your new settings and some additional settings.
Choose Your Privacy Settings
I suggest you go through every option and change to what you think is best for your course. I would make it as private as possible. The settings in the graphic are the ones I suggest for a course Click on “Preview My Profile” to see how your settings will look to others Click “Back to Privacy to return to the main page.
Blocking Students
At the bottom of the main privacy page is “Block List.” Add users you do not
Blocking Students
want to see you or communicate with you Reuse for a new term: you can block out last term’s students Block out students who have dropped
Applications and Websites ď‚ž
Refining privacy
You can further refine your security by clicking on Applications and Websites at the bottom of the main Privacy page.
Application and Web Sites
What you disable is what you feel is best for your course. Do enable “Friends Only” on the Game and application activity. Otherwise, your students might not see your activity on some applications you might be using.
Warning On Applications and Websites
Applications you use will access your Facebook information in order for them to work. For example, a review application uses your location in order to surface restaurant recommendations. When you visit a Facebook-enhanced application or website, it may access any information you have made visible to Everyone. It will also access any publicly available information. This includes your Name, Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friend List, and Pages. The application will request your permission to access any additional information it needs. Closely review your “Application and Websites” privacy settings by going Clicking Settings
Groups
The simplest way to create a group: type “Group” in the search. Click Search On Groups page Click “+ Create a
Group”
Since groups look similar to Facebook Pages, what’s the difference between them? Groups: meant to foster group
discussion around a particular topic Pages: allow entities such as public figures and organizations to broadcast information to their fans. Only the authorized representative of the entity can run a Page.
Group: http://www.facebook.com/help/? page=826
Creating a Group for your Course
Click on Application Settings
Groups can be created for projects, course sections, or topics Simply go to click on “Account” at the top of the page Click on Application Settings
Creating a group for your Course (con’t)
Click on “Groups” A new page appears Click on “Create a Group”
Creating a group for your Course (con’t)
Fill out your group (course) information Name your page something that identifies the school and course. And, possibility the section number. Group Type should be set to “Student Groups” You can choose from several different types of Student Groups. I suggest “Classes & Departments” Click “Create Group” when done.
Creating a group for your Course (con’t)
You will be asked for to set some settings for this group. Most of these are the default settings. I have changed the access to “This group is secret.” “This group is open” is the default
Creating a Group Page for your Course (con’t)
Now your course page is ready for content Your students can join the group page by request or you have to invite them (depending on if you checked “This group is secret”). You can even link this page to Twitter by tweeting and including the link to this page in the tweet.
Students can join the Course Group
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When inviting students, they will receive an email with a link in the content or can confirm your invite directly in their Facebook account.
Course Group Settings Click on setting you would like to edit as admin
As the creator and admin you are able to change the setting. Click on the any of the settings you wish to change on the top lefthand section of the group. Change the settings to your preference You are also able to invite students from this section
Changing Course Picture Hover to change graphic
You can replace the large ? For a picture. Simply hover over the default profile picture. A “Change Picture” will appear.
Events?
Invite students to an event. ie: a study session, lecture, workshop, etc. When the invite is received
by the students they can RSVP
You can add links to supporting documents for the session. You can even create this event for a regular faceto-face class session and use this feature to add supporting content. You can also send a message in the invite
You Can Add Applications To The Group Page WeRead Application
In this example, I have added a tab for the weRead application into my LMC English 101 group site. I did this by clicking on the + sign at the end of the tabs
Profile Badge
Click on “Create a Profile Badge
You can create a Profile Badge that can be used to direct your students to your Facebook page from another Web site or CMS Click on “Create a Profile Badge”
Creating a Profile Badge
Copy and paste this code into your Web page or CMS
Click on “Other” Other will create the code you will need to embed into your Web page, CMS, or portal page.
Embedding the Badge ď‚ž
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I have embedded this badge into my personal Web site on our SharePoint intranet How you embed will vary on what is being used.
FrontLine Videos ď‚ž
A great series of videos on digital learners can be found at : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ digitalnation/view/