I left the facebook about 15 weeks ago. I was spending too much time on it, and none of it productive. I felt disconnected. But I wanted to focus my time and energy on preparing for student teaching.
I am a self-described Web 2.0 evangelist, but the thought never occurred to me how adding my students as friends (albeit within a "limited profile" viewing status) would help me understand my action research question: how can I model the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies to students? At the end of the experience all of my students were wondering if I was on facebook and how they would keep in touch with me.
I was actually beating myself up over missing out on that opportunity until I discovered Ning and I realized why facebook is useless. Ning is a real social media site. With ning someone creates a site, almost like a standalone facebook. Then within your standalone facebook you can host discussions, share music and videos, create and join groups, blog, the list continues...
Its too late now to bring my students on board, but I see the horizon of potential in the future.
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