- Staying "connected" students, staff and stakeholders even when their phone numbers and addresses change. Probation officers and judges might find it useful? Visual record of student attendance?
- Keeping people informed about who is coming and what is happening at school and events.
- Posting assignments for students.
- Sharing with other GED programs.
- Improve student interest and attendance in obtaining a GED
- Getting "share of mind" from 16-24 population
- Establish a long term relationship?
- Get more students?
- Build a body of knowledge?
- Create a "learning" community that will help our learners into the future. To provide them support during their next stage.
- Provide longitudinal data. Valuable data. Should we give incentives? Can we sell data?
- Students can post a question for other students or teacher to answer?
- Promote more social connections?
Issues?
- Permissions? Who should see what?
- Administration of the site? What rules are needed?
- What material is acceptable to post?
- Where are the boundaries between students and faculty?
- In the future, what material might not be acceptable to post?
- How many students use Facebook? How often?
- What types of photos can be posted? Can we do it weekly?
How to proceed?
- Describe functions of the site
- Decide which are the most valuable
- Estimate cost of each function
- Do easy items first. "Low hanging fruit"
- Define these roles: administrator, teacher, student
What other GED programs have a Facebook page? Are they using other social networking?
"Social Networking", Reverence 3
Blaine High School in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin District 11 considers social networking. Someone created a bogus imitation and made mean postings. "40,500 students in 13 communities". Site services parents, teachers, and administrators. LinkExtend is a tool that helps students avoid dangerous sites.
Edmodo, a more secure social network, is used by 17,000 schools. (but it lacks the obliqueness of Facebook, which may be what we need to keep track of students)
Facebook vs. Twitter: Reference 4
Twitter is better for people who have simple cell phones. Facebook may end up being more successful.
Faculty on Facebook, Most successful
References
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Cool Cat Teacher
Blaine High School in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin District 11 considers social networking. Someone created a bogus imitation and made mean postings. "40,500 students in 13 communities". Site services parents, teachers, and administrators. LinkExtend is a tool that helps students avoid dangerous sites.
Edmodo, a more secure social network, is used by 17,000 schools. (but it lacks the obliqueness of Facebook, which may be what we need to keep track of students)
Facebook vs. Twitter: Reference 4
Twitter is better for people who have simple cell phones. Facebook may end up being more successful.
Faculty on Facebook, Most successful
References
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Cool Cat Teacher
- Faculty on Facebook: Confirm or Deny?. C. Michael Sturgeon. Faculty Coordinator of Instructional Technology. Lee University; Cleveland, TN msturgeon@leeuniversity.edu
- Social Networking: Keeping It Clean By: Waters, John K., T.H.E. Journal, 0192592X, 20110101, Vol. 38, Issue 1. Found on ERIC
- Facebook vs. Twitter: Battle of the Social Network Stars By: Tagtmeier, Curt, Computers in Libraries, 10417915, 20100901, Vol. 30, Issue 7
- Faculty on Facebook: Confirm or Deny?Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Instructional Technology Conference (14th, Murfreesboro, TN, Mar 29-31, 2009). 20 pp.
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