• Using Facebook

    Posted on September 13th, 2009, 11:59 am by admin

    Using Facebook - Wednesday 9/09/09

     

    Working together to get things done!

    Working together to get things done!

    Ken sent an email on Tuesday 8/09/09 which included an invitation to join the ITC 510/ITC 213 Facebook site in preparation for an online collaboration with the group on Wednesday.  Unfortunately I was unable to get the links etc to work for me, so I was unable to join the group. 

    For one of our earlier topics, there was mention of a 510/213 Facebook page and I had gone searching for it.  Unable to find it - it is fairly well hidden apparently, I created a page that was accessible to the group and used the picture here as our ID.

    I am only new to Facebook, so I’m still getting my head around it. My older children have been using it for ages and much prefer it to other online pages such as MySpace.  I think it is a great, personal, quick and easy way to keep in contact, either by instant messaging/chat or leaving messages on someone’s “wall”.

    Wednesday was no exception. It seems quite a few of the group could not access the other 510/213 page so a few of us ended up chatting on the one I had created - same outcome different venue. Ken posted a discussion, which a couple of us responded to and at varying times their were 2 or 3 people in some type of chat. It is only 1 to 1 chat that I could find, so that makes group work a little awkward. Collaboration would have to take place through a discussion or on the wall, which would work even though it might be a little cumbersome and “clunky”.

     

     

    Although it isn’t blocked at our school, Facebook’s age restriction would stop us from using it with our kids. However I can see how it could be used for discussion and learning groups for older students. Over the last few weeks - since our 510/213 page has been functional, our group of  28 members has been involved in some interesting and worthwhile discussions.

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