2. Facebook
Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately
owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can join networks organized by city,
workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People
can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to
notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks
depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and
preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to
know other people on campus.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students
and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at
Harvard University.[4] Website membership was initially limited to Harvard
students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League,
and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university
student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The
website currently has more than 200 million active users worldwide.[5]
3. Students love it, school network administrators hate it, no
matter how you look at it, Facebook is a significant part of
most teens' online lives. One teacher is trying to capitalize on
his students' love of Facebook by making Facebook an
integral part of his literature course. What this teacher is
doing is having his students create Facebook profiles for the
characters in The Great Gatsby. The activity doesn't stop
there. In addition to creating Facebook profiles for the
characters he is having his students write wall posts and blogs
as the character for whom they created a Facebook page. For
example, the student who creates a Facebook profile for Nick
might write on the wall of Facebook profile created for Daisy.
4. Facebook
The obvious problem with this lesson is that
most schools try to block access to Facebook
on school computers. Despite that logistical
problem, this lesson has great potential for
students to really delve into character
analysis.
5. Facebook
While many professors may criticize Facebook
for taking students away from their studies,
administrators and academics at some
universities have seen the potential in Facebook
being used as an educational tool. The vast
potential for group work, collaboration, and
discussion has been cited as a great strength for
Facebook.
6. Facebook
With Facebook being a gateway into the life of
another human being, issues of privacy have been
raised within the discussion of whether it should
be used in education. While “Schools” maintains
that it is a private application only available to
student, faculty, and staff of the subscribing
university, other professors have taken it upon
themselves to create their own course pages on
Facebook.
![Facebook
Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately
owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can join networks organized by city,
workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People
can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to
notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks
depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and
preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to
know other people on campus.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students
and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at
Harvard University.[4] Website membership was initially limited to Harvard
students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League,
and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university
student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The
website currently has more than 200 million active users worldwide.[5]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)