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=**1. Facebook Information (from LTC Wiki, University of Manitoba)**=


 * [|1] [|A very (very) brief history]
 * * [|2] [|What is **Facebook**?]
 * [|3] [|Well, that's nice, but what can I do on **Facebook**?]
 * [|4] [|**Educational** Uses of **Facebook**:]
 * [|5] [|Privacy Concerns]
 * [|6] [|Resources] ||

What is **Facebook**?

 * Facebook** is a social networking site that allows members to create profiles, form connections with others, and engage in discussion and information exchange. Much of the **educational** interest in **Facebook** is driven by the overwhelming rate of adoption by younger members of society. With over 64 million users, and 250,000 new users added daily ([|source]), **Facebook** is being actively explored for academic **use**.

**Educational** Uses of **Facebook**:
Educators are afflicted with a desire to **use** what's popular within society. This is largely rational - after all, if students are comfortable with computers, mobile phones, or certain web applications, why not leverage their existing skills with technology for teaching and learning? In some cases, however, different tools are used for dramatically different purposes. For most people, **Facebook** is a social space, used for informal conversations, building and maintaining relationships, and the voyeuristic tendency of profile surfing. The value of **Facebook** for formal teaching and learning is unclear. While learners will likely **use** **Facebook** to create small networks, study groups, or **use** its communication tools for arranging study times or clarify assignment requirements, formal **use** in college-level instruction may be too much of a stretch for learners. Some colleges, while not focusing on in class integration, are using SNS as notification and marketing purposes. Some examples:


 * [|Notifications] - some institutions are using **Facebook** for notifications of emergencies on campus
 * [|**Facebook** Education Applications] - a list of **Facebook** applications with the potential for academic **use**.
 * [|Best practices for educators using **facebook**] - links to a .pdf file with examples of how educators can **use** groups/profiles, privacy settings, sharing videos/resources, and the Courses application.
 * [|**Facebook** to teach]: "Smith 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** for recruiting]: "It's recruiting season on the campuses of Canadian colleges and universities and this fall more than ever institutions were using popular sites such as **Facebook** to get their message out. Recent rule changes on the popular social-networking site have also helped to accelerate that trend, opening the door to a range of new uses and giving schools a fresh method for reaching teens and young adults."
 * [|MySpace, **Facebook**, Bebo: Social Networking Students]: "Most of this year’s new students are likely to be users of MySpace, **Facebook**, Bebo or some other social networking software. Studies in the U.S. which suggest that university students will **use** this software to communicate mainly with their university friends chatting, joking and organising their offline meetings and group work will resonate in the UK – and in other sectors. Students will probably social network whilst they are at their computer studying rather than at separate times (Golder et al, 2007). Although most of this activity is hidden to educators, it is relevant because it is interlaced with studying."

Privacy Concerns
The rapid growth of **Facebook** and the highly personal nature of data provided by users has raised concerns about privacy and security of data. The recent launch of [|Beacon] - Facebook's marketing program that shares data with advertisers and displays purchases and decisions made by users on the activity feed - served as an awakening for many users. A few reactions to Beacon and the "over reaching" of **Facebook**: The Canadian Privacy Commissioner [|details how SNS work] in exposing data and privacy of users. 
 * [|How Sticky is Membership?] "Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from **Facebook**, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network’s **use** of personal data."
 * [|RIP **Facebook**?]: "It works as well as it ever has, and many of the people who **use** it (my kids for instance) are unaware of the worsening situation about its privacy-invading Beacon social ads scheme that tracks people’s web-surfing habits even when they’re not on the site."
 * [|**Facebook** Beacon: A Cautionary Tale About New Media Monopolies]: "**Facebook** Beacon, currently in the process of going down in flames, is a classic case of overreaching. So much has been written about what’s wrong with Beacon — blatant privacy violation, lack of blanket opt-out, failure to make it opt-in, gathering data from non-**Facebook** users — but I haven’t seen much about WHY they got it so wrong...The reason why **Facebook** got it so wrong with Beacon is actually much more interesting and important to the evolution of media, advertising, and technology than the reason why Beacon is imploding. **Facebook** overreached because it’s acting like a traditional media company with monopoly control of its channel."
 * [|How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill **Facebook**]: "If there was any doubt about Facebook's lack of qualification to displace the Internet with a benevolent dictatorship/walled garden, it was removed when **Facebook** unveiled its new advertising campaign. Now, **Facebook** will allow its advertisers **use** the profile pictures of **Facebook** users to advertise their products, without permission or compensation. Even if you're the kind of person who likes the sound of a benevolent dictatorship this clearly isn't one."

Resources
[|danah boyd interview] (danah boyd is one of the most frequently referenced researchers on social software) [|7 Things you Should Know About **Facebook**] (.pdf) [|Wikipedia **Facebook** entry] [|Wikipedia Social networking services entry] [|**Facebook**:Places to Go] [|http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7aFxpXevOXgJ:ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/index.php%3Ftitle%3DFacebook+educational+use+of+facebook&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca]

2. Schools struggle to balance openness with control Bradshaw, Tim. (2010, March 15). //Schools struggle to balance openness with control.// Financial Times. London (UK). p. 6. ProQuest Journals. Post-secondary schools develop their own social networking systems. However they are moving towards using Facebook in a limited way with their incoming students, current students, and alumni.

"Ralph Rogers, director of marketing and communications at Stanford Graduate School of Business, admits that engaging with social media is a work in constant progress. "It's not clear exactly what the best uses for all these social media tools are," he says. "But we feel it's really important to get a toe in the water and prototype, experiment and obtain data."

"However, for most business schools, the rise of Facebook and its more corporate-minded cousin, LinkedIn, also presents a dilemma. Many have already invested in an internal network for keeping in touch with students and sharing course notes securely. But college IT budgets can't match the resources available to a company dedicated to building such sites and clunky software means many students prefer Facebook to the official intranet."

3. Frequently Asked Questions (Facebook in Education) FAQ Facebook in Education

4. Facebook reading campaign launches March 15 (Bookstash aimed at teens) []

5. Blog post: Dawson, Christopher. (2009, April 20). Yes, social networking can be kid-friendly. @http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2436

6. ConnectYard integrates Facebook, Twitter, text messaging and email into a single communication thread within popular learning management systems, including Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai and others. ConnectYard leverages popular social networking sites to better connect students and instructors, build a feeling of community and provide enhanced academic support - all of which positively affect a student's persistence through graduation.

@http://www.connectyard.com/

7. Social networking is not just cool for students. Because of its easy interface, [|Facebook] is a good introduction to social networking for teachers. Other networks include [|The Schools United] a worldwide educational community and [|Classroom 2.0]Twitter is used by teachers to build a Personal Learning Network of like-minded people from around the world.

8. The Canadian E ducation Association: Updated Canadian research (all topics) []

9. Good Practical Examples of "HOW TO" use basic FB in classroom; also Third Party Apps: []

[|10. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canton-GA/The-Unquiet-Library-Creekview-High-School-Media-Center/31676317923]