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What do principals need to know about Facebook?

Here’s useful post for educators from Doug Johnson at Blue Skunk:

What do principals need to know about Facebook?

“Part One: Social networking – what it is, who uses it, and how it’s used – even if I don’t “get it,” why I need to know about it

Part Two: A Guide to Facebook – evil incarnate or a tool for world peace or something in the middle? Does it have a place in your school?

Part Three: How can and how should your classroom teachers use Facebook? what guidelines are necessary? what are they actually doing?

Part Four: Using Facebook and its cousins to communicate with parents and the public – how do you set up a fan page? how do you know if people are reading?”

Check it out.

Hold on to it and share it in the autumn when school starts again. Or send it to your principal now.

Stephen

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Posted on: July 12, 2011, 10:45 am Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. Michelle Luhtala said
    on July 12, 2011 11:45 am

    I blog about using mainstream social media for instruction rather than as a web 1.0 tool. I find that more than any other threaded discussion tool, Facebook encourages students to engage in participatory learning. It fosters collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking – the 4 essential Cs for the new millennium. By using Facebook for instruction, we embed digital citizenship instruction, and we model using social media for productivity rather than as a distraction from productivity. At #ALA11, I included our instructional use of Twitter and Facebook in my presentation, 2.0 to P21. The slides are on my blog Bibliotech.me, as are several posts about using Facebook for teaching and learning.

    This September, during ALA’s annual intellectual freedom celebration, Banned Books Week (September 24- October 1), I am encouraging teacher librarians to dedicate Wednesday September 28 to raising awareness about access to Internet sites in K-12 education – Banned Sites Day.

  2. Shawn Fielding said
    on July 12, 2011 2:35 pm

    Parts 3 and 4: Facebook is an interesting tool to study in the educational world, but the prospects of Google + are much more in tune with becoming a true educational and classroom/stakeholder tool, given how directed it can be. Just my thoughts.