Well today i joined Facebook in our lecture today, but i found out that if you type Faccebook, you don’t get a very nice site (if you get my drift). I did find that joining Facebook was very different to joining Flikr. Facebook was a lot harder to join than Flickr. Once i had joined Facebook, i found it very hard to log back in again, they didn’t accept my email address again, i’m not really sure what happened there but it could have been because everyone in our lecture was trying to join Facebook all at once, whereas with Flickr we had to do it at home. I think that Facebook is the new MySpace, it is a lot safer because of the security conditions which is better for everyone, but especially useful for school students. This could be very useful in a classroom activity, you could teach the students to social network, not that they really need much help doing that. It allows the students to be more creative, and it is not as boring. This could be used as a classroom in the virtual world, everyone can contribute, not just the noisy ones, the quiet ones as well. You can give them a topic to research, like all good ICT classes, it is up to the students to do the work. With Facebook you can see who adds to the page, which students are doing the work and who isn’t doing the work, and a big bonus is that you can keep out people who aren’t welcome (predators), which isn’t always possible in MySpace or other sharing sites. I think that this is a good blog and we should all read it http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/social-networking-in-schools-gets-a-boost-from-nsba/
Anyway here is a link to my facebook page, although it isn’t very educational, it is worth looking at just for a laugh. http://ndedu.facebook.com/home.php?
