Facebook in the Classroom
1 February 2009 at 3:11 pm Peter G. Klein 1 comment
| Peter Klein |
According a new survey, 76 percent of undergraduates here at the University of Missouri are on Facebook at least once a day, and they are more likely to get school-related information from Facebook than from email.
I’ve never used Facebook as an academic resource. If you have, could you share something about your experiences? For example, I could create Facebook Group pages for my courses and use them for announcements, discussion, chat, hosting course materials, etc. Facebook isn’t a substitute for Blackboard, or one of the other specialized teaching platforms, however; it lacks testing and grading features, doesn’t automatically import membership lists from enrollment data, isn’t supported by university IT people, etc. How can Facebook and Blackboard be used effectively as complements?
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Per Bylund | 1 February 2009 at 10:44 pm
Actually, Facebook can import most kinds of files with “friends” data, e.g. comma-delimited .csv files and tab-delimited .txt files (both of which are easily created in e.g. MS Excel).