Week6

Social Networking: Building a Classroom Community
Facebook, MySpace, Ning, ELGG

//By no means is anyone at Philadelphia University suggesting that you use these social networking sites with your students in your classroom. The intention of this week's material is to familiarize yourself with WHAT students are using, and perhaps how YOU can use them in your professional network. The following are some examples of teacher/student social networking gone awry. If you decide to "friend" students, you should keep EVERY communication professional.//

[|CNN: Online student-teacher friendships can be tricky] [|PBS Learning.Now: Facing Up to Facebook] [|Chronicle of Higher Education: A MySpace Photo Costs a Student a Teaching Certificate] ........ [|Conestoga Valley's Response] (pdf) [|Missouri Dept of Ed considering making "friending" students illegal]

[|Educational Uses of FaceBook] [|What exactly IS Elgg?] Kristin Hokanson's Collection on Internet Safety

Reading List
Boyd, Danah. (2006). Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace (Website). http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html

Carnevale, Dan. (2006). Email is for Old People (Website). http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i07/07a02701.htm

O’Hanlon, Charlene. (2007). If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em (Website). http://thejournal.com/articles/21082_1