Brian Smith, a Penn State Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Education created a group on facebook.com that includes him, his teaching assistant, and students enrolled in the class, which meets in person each week. Members of the group are able to post assignments and announcements on the board. The group is visible to all facebook.com members, however only members of the group are able to view class discussions. Facebook.com’s mobile feature sends text messages to his cell phone when students send messages through its internal system or post to his “wall.” If there is an emergency, or a student asks an important question, he is able to respond while standing in the middle of the grocery store or an airport security line.
http://www.ed.psu.edu/news/smithfacebook.asp
Facebook to take over Stanford classroom:
The course is called: Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook. It is offered in the Computer Science Department. Students build applications for Facebook, then gather and analyze detailed information about how Facebook users actually use them. Students focus on using detailed numerical measurements to guide software iterations, just like developers do on thousands of existing Facebook applications. BJ Fogg, one of the instructors of this course, hopes to use the course to produce a curriculum that other computer science, business and design instructors can model their own classes after.
http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/facebook-to-take-over-stanford-classroom/
Faculty research:
- Scholars at Carnegie Mellon used the site to look at privacy issues.
- Researchers at the University of Colorado analyzed how Facebook instantly disseminated details about the Virginia Tech shootings in April.
- Sociology, psychology and political science scholars examine how people, especially young people, are connected to one another, something few data sets offer, the scholars say.
- Social scientists at Indiana, Northwestern, Pennsylvania State, Tufts, the University of Texas and other institutions are mining Facebook to test traditional theories in their fields about relationships, identity, self-esteem, popularity, collective action, race and political engagement.
- Eliot R. Smith, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University, and a colleague received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how people meet and learn more about potential romantic partners. “Facebook was attractive to us because it has both those kinds of information,” Professor Smith said.
- S. Shyam Sundar, a professor and founder of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State, has led students in several Facebook studies exploring identity. One involved the creation of mock Facebook profiles. Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” friends (about 800 or more) are seen as insecure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html?pagewanted=print
Communication and data gathering tool:
"...one instructor uses Facebook as a publicity vehicle for his study-abroad trips (Lemuel 2006). Another uses it as a venue for advertising events and then gives students an assignment asking them to analyze the site (Silver 2006). A third finds it a useful tool for screening potential undergraduate teaching assistants (Mick La Lopa, e-mail to author, November 2, 2006).
Instructors might not yet be embracing social networking sites as teaching or learning tools, but they are using them as communication and information gathering tools.
http://csdtechpd.org/file.php/1/moddata/glossary/4/26/Is_Education_1.0_Ready_for_Web_2.0_Students-.pdf
Team projects: analysis of a website:
David Silver, a professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco assigned his students a series of projects using Facebook: "the final project encouraged students to go beyond academic writing and instead build projects -- facebook experiments with identity, facebook experiments with photo albums, facebook experiments with offline events."
"the project was smart. the nine students: a) assembled a list of dream features for facebook, b) asked the rest of us to rank them in terms of what we want to see/use on facebook, and c) designed a detailed print package describing five new features. and then, d) they sent the package to the headquarters of facebook."
http://silverinseattle.blogspot.com/2006/03/folks-at-facebook-seem-pretty-cool.html
Facebook spreads charity:
University of Massachusetts at Amherst freshman Andrew Leavitt has something in common with software creators and advertising professionals - a growing recognition of the marketing power of social networking websites such as Facebook.
more stories like this
A fund-raising veteran of Leavitt discovered last year that Facebook is a far more effective marketing tool for his charitable events than fliers and word of mouth. And his experience is quickly being affirmed by other local youth with social causes.”
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/12/30/facebook_spreads_charity_word/
Young Victoria BC man attempting the impossible?
Dane Low is using the Facebook group "Facebook for Education in Developing Nations" to collaborate and raise $17000 to build a school in Vietnam through Room to Read and the Fundraising site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFKUU1LFQE
Nicholas Christakis, a Harvard professor who is using Facebook to study how people form social relationships, said, “Our predecessors could only dream of the kind of data we now have.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html?bl&ex=1198040400&en=5041e607dad7dce7&ei=5087%20
Biblioghraphy:
Eldon, E. (2007, September 10). Facebook to take over Stanford classroom. Retrieved March 2008, from Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/10/facebook-to-take-over-stanford-classroom/
Low, D. (2007, November 28). Young Victoria BC man attempting the impossible? Retrieved March 2008, from YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFKUU1LFQE
McGraw, K. (2006, September). Penn State Professor Will Use Facebook.com to Teach Class. Retrieved March 2008, from Penn State: http://www.ed.psu.edu/news/smithfacebook.asp
Rathi, R. (2007, December 30). Facebook spreads charity word. Retrieved March 2008, from Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/12/30/facebook_spreads_charity_word/
Rosenbloom, S. (2007, December 17). On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data . Retrieved March 2008, from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
Silver, D. (2006, March 30). The folks at facebook seem pretty cool . Retrieved March 2008, from silverinseattle.blogspot: http://silverinseattle.blogspot.com/2006/03/folks-at-facebook-seem-pretty-cool.html
Thompson, J. (2007, April/May). Is Education 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0 Students? Retrieved March 2008, from Innovate, Journal of Online Education: http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=393
No comments:
Post a Comment