You might try using a "ning." A ning has all the benefits of social networking like Facebook, but the privacy issues are much easier to manage. We are currently using a ning for our 9th grade to build class spirit and communicate about 9th grade events
and programs.
In an academic context, teachers can set up a ning for a special project so students can create pages using an identity other than their own, which of course they can't do via Facebook. For example, each student can be one member of the Constitutional
Convention (and then they have to figure out who should "friend" whom, based on states rights vs. federalism), or students can make pages for characters in a novel or play (again, who would friend whom, and why?).
Good luck!
Liz
Liz Perry
Director of Educational Design and Innovation
English Teacher
Berkeley Carroll School
181 Lincoln Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 534-6554
eperry@berkeleycarroll.org
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>Is anyone using Facebook for classroom projects? If so, what kind of
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>A few Bryn Mawr teachers would like to use this site, but are concerned
>with privacy issues -- students and teachers having access to
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>I would like to hear how your school is using this social networking
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>Thank you.
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>Lynn
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>Lynn Byank
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>Director of Technology
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>Bryn Mawr School
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>109 W. Melrose Ave.
>Baltimore, MD 21210
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>410 323 8800 x1387
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