teaching and learning with facebook - easy, interactive and enjoyable millie watts

Teaching and Learning with Facebook

Easy, interactive and enjoyableMillie Watts

Teacher of Geology and GeographyRichard Huish College

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Why Facebook?• 800 Million active users• Unparalleled degree of

interactivity• Embedded Digital

Literacy Skills• Integration with a

range of other web 2.0 tools

• “Drip Feed” information to students

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How?

• Used mainly as an addition to classroom content.

• The aim is to enhance what is taught in the classroom by providing easy to access, free stimulus material.

• Provides a new form of interaction with staff and peers.

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Issues• Privacy and Training• Updates to Facebook• Highly seasonal• Works best integrated

with other technologies• Cyber-bullying potential

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Sharing resources

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Visual Learning

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Apps

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Apps

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Events

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YouTube

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Document Sharing

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Document Embedding

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Blog Integration

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Pinterest

• Very new.• No formal app.• Can be added as a static

HTML page.• Use will be improved

once Pinterest App comes out.

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Timeline

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Historical Events

• Can be added back to 1800.

• Uses: History, Case Studies, key discoveries

• Creates a content rich page for students to explore.

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Summary

• An addition to your current practice, not a new technology to master.

• Ever improving?• FB as a VLE?• A means to centralize

other online activities• Exam Support

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