Why I Use Facebook. (And why you should, too.)

1. Why I Use Facebook.(And why you should, too.) Elizabeth A. Evans UNC-Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning December 2007

2. Scope • Your kids and Facebook/MySpace • Legal, moral, ethical issues of student use • “How to” create, use, configure

3. Scope • Features that might be useful… • Issues related to use… … to and for us, to and for our faculty, to and for other campus staff

4. You Talk How many of you use Facebook?

5. And? Any other social networks?

6. You Talk Some More This is gonna be hard… Anybody not have a basic understanding of what Facebook is?

7. A Very Short Definition Facebook is a Web-based service that makes it possible for individuals in high schools, universities, corporations, non-profits, the military, and geographic communities (primarily English-speaking )to interact with each other and to share information.

8. And… It’s free for individuals…

9. A Very Short History In 2004, a student at Harvard thought it would be cool to develop a way for Harvard students to connect with each other. Now there are millions of Facebook users.

10. del.icio.us “So, what’s a social gal like you doing in a virtual place like this?”

11. Fall 2005 (30 minutes) Fall 2006 (Several hours, some people, a couple of groups, some effort) How and When I Came to Facebook

12. How and When I Came to Facebook September 2006 Women's center brown bag: Dangers of online social networks Danah Boyd talk on social networking (On the same day!) I was obviously missing something.

13. Your turn When I logged back into Facebook, what was (almost) the first thing I did?

14. Back to the Drawing Board • Created a more complete profile • Searched for campus faculty and staff • Posted some photos (N=8) • Wrote my first note September 29 • Posted (and removed) links • Created an event September 26 • And more…

15. Today • Profiles • Events • Groups • Notes • Applications • “Fan of…” • Mini-Feed

16. On Your Own • Everything else :-)

17. Your Profile

18. Let’s Talk Specifics What can and should go on your profile?

26. Events

27. Events I’ve Created • Games4Learning symposium • Cyberinfrastructure: A Campus Perspective • Discussion: The (Technology) Tipping Point • From Learning Objects to Learning Impact: An Update on the IMS... • Instructional Uses for Facebook • Immersive Learning Environments • ITS Open Lunch • A Virtual Environment for Education: Second Life • ITS Coffee Klatch • And a few others…

28. An example event

29. Event example, part 1

30. Event example, part 2

31. Event example, part 3

32. An Funny Thing Happened… “Instructional Uses for Facebook” More than 50% of the “Yes” RSVPs were not people I invited.

33. Another Funny Thing Happened… “The (Technology) Tipping Point” I invited 48 people. At the time of the event, 95 people were invited.

34. Groups

36. Group Example

37. Group Example, Part 1

38. Group Example, Part 2

39. Groups: Advantages • Feeling of community • Place to post news/info/etc • Can be open or with approval • Event sponsorship • Others?

40. Groups: Disadvantages • Lots of them • Little activity in many of them • Not easy (yet) to see what’s new • Others?

41. Notes

42. Go Heels (she said, quietly)

46. Applications

49. Mini-Feed