This presentation discusses social networking in education. It provides a brief history of MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube. It outlines the session including a review of corporate social networks and obstacles to using social networks in education. Reasons for using social networks in education are to teach 21st century skills, media literacy, and allow students to share projects. The presentation recommends several educational resources for social networking.

1. Department of Professional & Staff Development
Career Tech and Special Education
Social Networking in Education
Presented by: Barry S. Britt
This presentation will be published online at www.soundzabound.com.

2. • History
• Obstacles
• Reasons
• Resources
Session Outline

3. A Review of Corporate

4. • Created by Chris DeWolf and Tom Anderson
• Began as SiteGeist, a community web site
• Initially catered to local actors, musicians and artists
in Southern California
• Local bands (particularly Indie rock bands) created
profiles and quickly became MySpace’s primary
marketing tool
• Eight months after its initial launch, MySpace
experienced the “network effect,” an exponential
growth of people adding “friends”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yWpnto-hqQ&feature=related

5. • Founded by Mark Zuckerberg while at Harvard
• Named for facebooks used in some colleges to
get acquainted
• Originally called thefacebook.com
• A hobby project became a Harvard, Stanford
and Yale phenomenon within months, in high
schools the following year, available to
general internet public (13+) the following
year
• Renamed FaceBook in 2005http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cEySyEnxvU

6. • Founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed
Karim
• First registered domain name, then developed site in
a garage
• "Broadcast Yourself”
• Business model is based on traditional banner
advertising, sponsorships, partnerships and
promotions
• Generated early interest with a contest to win an
iPod Nano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQxFtQenrI&NR=1

7. Quirky
surprising
innovative
competitive

8. • Internal Network
• Administration
• Parental
• Self
Obstacles

9. • Viable / Necessity
• 21st
Century Skills / State Standards
• Media Literacy
• Student interest
• Project sharing
• Compete with U.K., India, China
Reasons

10. • Classroom 2.0.com
• Ning in Education.com
• SchoolTube.com.com
• Soundzabound.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQxFtQenrI&NR=1
Resources