[Air-L] Educational uses of Facebook

[Stephanie Bennett - Communitas]

Funny that this subject is coming up this week.  Two weeks ago I set up a discussion thread on one of my Facebook pages so that my students could interact with the author of a book I've required them to read.  Last week the students began populating it and the discussion really began to flow.  There was much student participation;  they were thoroughly enjoying the experience of actually hearing from the author.  Unfortunately, mid-discussion, someone from Facebook decided to deactivate the discussion thread function on its "pages" feature and our educational use of facebook was debunked.

However, the educational uses of FB continue to present themselves.  What did we learn from this venture, eh?

For one, corporate involvment in the educational process gives corporations control instead of the professor.

Next, technological trends come and go but nothing beats face-to-face interaction.

What else was educational about this process?

See you in New Orleans!

Best,
Stephanie Bennett



-----Original Message-----
From: danah boyd <aoir.z3z at danah.org>
To: Chris Werry <cwerry at mail.sdsu.edu>
Cc: air-l <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 8:12 am
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Educational uses of Facebook



 try to keep everything that I know about SNSs up here: http://www.danah.org/researchBibs/sns.php
It's most definitely not complete, but it might give you some pointers.  
(And for those of you who are working on research related to SNSs - or Twitter - 
lease add your articles to these bibliographies!  There's a self-serve option 
alled "submit new citation")
danah

n Nov 10, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Chris Werry wrote:
> Hi,
 
 I have a number of students interested in researching the educational uses
 of Facebook. They
 are interested both in informal, creative, outside-the-classroom uses by
 students, as well
 as the way teachers are including Facebook in their courses.  They are
 interested in
 both K-12 and post-secondary uses of Facebook.
 
 I've pointed them to dana boyd's work, but I'm not aware of much else. Can
 anyone point me
 to a bibliography or some key resources?
 
 Thanks!
 
 Chris
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