Social Networking Out of the classroom

Beginning Activity

Using the pages discussion section post a comment about how you have seen Facebook/Twitter used.

Here are guiding questions.

Have the users only used Facebook/Twitter for pleasure or other reasons? If mainly for pleasure what were they doing on the site? If other reasons explain.

Have you seen Twitter/Facebook used in negative ways? If so how?

Have you used Twitter/Facebook for pleasure?

Readings

These readings discuss ways Twitter and Facebook can be used to enhance learning outside of the classroom. They will help you develop ways to bring the learning or the activity you did with the Social Networking site inside of the classroom, and extend it into outside of the classroom activities.

Twitter Enhancing Learning

Facebook Enhancing Learning

Reading Activities

Looking at the 50/100 articles from last Unit, Brainstorm ways you can extend those activities to have students use the Social Networking site outside of school as well, you can use ideas from Today's reading and connect them to the activities mentioned in Unit 2.

Create a Graphic Organizer and Post it to the page below. It can be in the form of a Microword document, a Prezi, or any other type of Graphic Organizing program.

1:Graphic Organizer (activities outside of classroom)

Here is an example:

File:OUT OF CLASS ACTIVITIES.pdf

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