This document provides information about an 8-week introductory class on Facebook. The class will be held every Tuesday for 2 hours and cover topics from setting up an account to posting, messaging and privacy settings. Assessment will involve an informal role play in the final class. Students will be provided with lecture notes, access to a class Facebook page and blog for additional resources. Classes will involve presentations, practical demonstrations and hands-on activities.

1. Facebook
An Introduction

2. About Me
Edel King
Assistant Librarian, IS40480 Library
edel.king@ucdconnect.ie
Any time!
No such thing as a stupid question!

3. The Class
8 weeks
Every Tuesday, 10-12
Gives an Introduction to Facebook
Step by step process
Setting up to Messenger and everything in
between!

4. Lesson Structure
Week 1 - Introduction and Background
Week 2 - Setting up an Account
Week 3 - Getting to know the Interface
Week 4 - Profile and Privacy settings
Week 5 - Profile and Privacy settings continued
Week 6 - Friending and Messenger
Week 7 - Posting, Liking and Commenting
Week 8 - Assessment and Feedback

5. Expectations
Did I miss anything?

6. Resources to Help
Lecture notes will be given out at the beginning of each class
Class Facebook page - hints, tips, videos and links
www.facebook.com/is40480computers
Blog with step by step guides and additional notes
www.is40480computerclasses.wordpress.com
Each week’s slides will also be available via Slideshare
Username: Edel14201341, Password: r2gqpp4e
My Uploads
Email me anytime, any query!
edel.king@ucdconnect.ie

7. Class Format
Powerpoint
Practical run through
Hands on
Interactive
Role play

8. Assessment
Final class
Role play
Each person given a different scenario
Informal grading
Certificate

10. Week 1
Introduction to Facebook
What do you think it can do for you?
What can it do for you?
What can you do with it?

12. Facebook
Facebook was created by Harvard student
Mark Zuckerberg in 2004
Was studying psychology
Not the first programme he had created
Most successful

13. Facebook
Social Networking Site
Originally only available in educational
institutions
Now has over 1 billion users worldwide
Average person will spend 20 minutes on
Facebook per visit

14. What YOU can do with
Facebook
So, what do you think Facebook can be used
for?

15. What YOU can do with
Facebook
Connect with friends
Post to your own page/Timeline
Read what other people post (put on their
page) and like it or comment
Chat to people using Facebook messenger

16. Getting started
www.facebook.com

18. Have a look at this page and
have a think about the sign up
process.

19. We have set up a Facebook page for
this class which you can make use of as
you learn new skills -
www.facebook.com/ucdcomputers

20. Some Lingo to start you
off!
Timeline - your own page where your stuff will appear
Newsfeed - a continuously updating screen containing material that your friends put on their page
Post - to put something on your page
Like - a button you can press under what someone else has Posted to tell them that you have
enjoyed reading it
Comment - to write a reply under what someone else has Posted in answer to it
Interface - the page that is in front of you and how it looks, how it is laid out etc.
Messenger - a place to send Private Messages to an individual Friend. These Messages can only
be seen by you and them. This is different to Posting on your own or another person’s
page/Timeline which can be seen by all of your/their friends.
Status - Posting what you are doing, how you are feeling or anything else that you might want to
say on your page/Timeline.

21. Concerns?

22. Questions?

23. Think about what you want
from the class

24. Remember the blog -
www.is40480computerclasses.word
press.com

25. Next week - setting up your
account

26. See you next week!!