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Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels
"A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing."
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The digital age often gets a bad press but the findings of this report demonstrate that social networking sites and blogs are linked to young people’s more positive attitudes to writing
A Simple Guide To Set Up Your School On Facebook
"Creating a Facebook page for your school or college isn’t as simple as it is when you’re just creating a personal page. There are several pitfalls that I came across when doing so that Facebook simply hasn’t addressed, and the administration process involved in adding schools on Facebook is more complex than a normal profile."
Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook
A user generated website where people are able to share their “Mum-Dad-Facebook” experiences.
School Board Bans Facebook, Twitter For Teachers
Read one teacher's dismayed reaction, and weigh in with your thoughts. Does this seem like a legitimate restriction for safety or other reasons, or an over-reaction that will hinder teacher-student communications?
Using Facebook for Learning
Apps geared toward using Facebook as a tool for teaching and learning
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According to the Educause report 7 Things You should Know About Facebook, “Facebook’s structure encourages users to view relationships in a broad context of learning, even as affiliations change—from high school to college to graduate school to the workplace. By opening itself to virtually anyone, Facebook has become a model for how communities—of learners, of workers, of any group with a common interest—can come together, define standards for interaction, and collaboratively create an environment that suits the needs of the members.”
It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites
"From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts
and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the
older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth
trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no exception.
The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking
Faceworking : Should we try to use social networking services such as Facebook and Myspace as serious educational tools?
Should we try to use social networking services such as Facebook and Myspace as serious educational tools, or should they remain the domain of informal chat and backstage antics?
Free Facebook 101 Tutorial
Facebook is a social networking site that connects friends, relatives, classmates, colleagues, and groups that share common interests. How did Facebook get started? What can you do on Facebook? Is anything really private on Facebook? Facebook 101 answers these questions and several more. The goal of this tutorial is to get you up to speed on how to create, use, and maintain your Facebook profile.
Schools and Facebook: Moving Too Fast, or Not Fast Enough?
This article looks at if FB and other social media tools have any place in a school environment.
Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
Eeek how CAN we still be on Facebook?
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