S Be Friends (?) With Facebook Jeremy Sarachan PETAL February 12, 2009
Dec 14, 2015
What is Facebook?
Who is on Facebook?
Started by a Harvard University student
Social Networking Site
A place to go within the web
What does Facebook offer?It “collapses time”.
Share observations/comments with your
“friends” and friends.
Ways to keep in touch without doing anything.
Ways to maintain connections.
Have fun! (Gifts, Quizzes)
What are the features?
Profile Picture
Status Line
Information
Friends
Applications
My Feed
News Feed
Instant Messaging
Who’s Online
…and More
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=64802090&ref=profile
The One With The Friends (are they like the Others?)
Who you know
Who you’ve known
Who you want to know Professional Contacts “Famous People”
The Elephant in the Room(6 slides too late)
Do I friend students?
Absolutely? Never? With rules?
You don’t have to.
Privacy settings exist, but don’t complain or reveal
Why It Matters for Academics
Where the students are How they communicate How they gather information
Useful for professors Information Gatherers Community of Scholars
Professional Contacts
My friends include: Arthur Asa Berger Mitch Resnick Rafe Martin Dale McAdam (or a memory) Gerald Erion
http://www.facebook.com/home.php
I’m in these Groups…
http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=64802090&view=everyone#/profile.php?id=64802090&v=info&viewas=64802090
Not the kind of “Pages”you’re used to…
Memorial Art Gallery
George Eastman House
University of Rochester
Xerox (sort of)
Course Management:(Why You’re Here?)
Pages vs. Groups
http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/archives/2008/01/facebook_groups_vs_pages.
shtml
Let’s look
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=668716965#/pages/Web-Design-COMM369/45561207117?ref=
ts
The Creepy Tree House Effect
Do students resent the intrusion?
Do students have accounts?
Will non-traditional students go along with this?
Blackboard vs. Facebook:The Battle for Our
MindsFacebook Benefits Blackboard Benefits
Easier-to-Use
Easy-to-access
More fun
More convenient(for everyone)
Open to Everyone
More Features
Better for Content-Intensive Courses
Easier to Organize
More Familiar to faculty
Closed to Everyone
Some HTML: Links(I wish the Apps were better)
Posting:
Go into P: drive. Find the public_html folder. Inside that folder, create a folder named facebook. Put in your documents.
URL: http://keep2.sjfc.edu/faculty/username/facebook/syllabus_260.doc
COMM 260 syllabus: http://keep2.sjfc.edu/faculty/username/facebook/syllabus_260.doc
OR <a href=http://keep2.sjfc.edu/faculty/username/facebook/syllabus_260.doc>COMM 260 syllabus</a>
Some HTML: Formatting
<b>I’m bold</b> I’m bold
<i>I’m italic</i> I’m italic
<h1>I’m a big headline</h1> I’m a big headline
<h2>I’m a slightly smaller headline</h2> I’m a slightly smaller headline
You can do lists, too.