An introduction to the Blackboard Sync application in Facebook prepared for the Metropolitan Community College faculty convocation, February 2009.

1. Blackboard + Facebook

2. do you know Blackboard?

5. Photo credit: Abby Ernst

6. do you know Facebook?

7. Photo credit: Sarah Joos there are more than 175 million active users

8. Photo credit: Martin Billings the average user has 120 friends on the site

9. Photo credit: M Maripepa … and each day they spend more than three billion minutes on Facebook (worldwide)

10. Photo credit: Gozde Otman the largest demographic concentration remains the traditional college demographic of 18-24 year olds (40.8%)

11. Photo credit: Patrick Moore the 35-54 year old demographic is growing fastest, with a 276.4% growth rate (since June ’08) the 55+ demographic is not far behind with a 194.3% growth rate over the same period

12. which can lead to a situation like this-

15. it’s a verb - really www.urbandictionary.com http://www.urbandictionary.com/

16. lots of college students - of all ages - are spending lots of time on Facebook can Facebook help them keep up with their course work?

17. Blackboard Sync all information from the website wiki.blackboardsync.com

18. a collaboration of Facebook and Blackboard

20. safe and secure graphic from the Blackboard Sync webinar

21. what information syncs? announcements new discussion posts notice new course content notice new grades notice course roster course map

22. NOT THE ACTUAL POSTS, CONTENT, or GRADES

23. how do you set it up? you need: MCC Blackboard account Facebook account

24. installing the Blackboard Sync application in Facebook 1 2

25. 3 4 5

26. http://bboard.mcckc.edu 6 enter your MCC Blackboard user name and password 7

27. 8 SUCCESS!

28. tabs display updated information

29. announcements

30. forums

31. content

32. grades

33. course map goes to the login page NOT to the course

34. course roster

35. Images and graphics from Stock.xchng - http://www.sxc.hu/home Blackboard Sync - http://www.blackboardsync.com Facebook Usage Statistics from Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics iStrategy Labs - http://www.istrategylabs.com/