The Teacher's Guide to Facebook

Advantages and Pitfalls of Social Media

http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/facebook-for-teachers/

"A simple and popular workaround for awkward or potentially unprofessional interactions is to use Facebook pages, groups or separate accounts in the classroom. Pages are essentially separate profiles that students can "Like" in order to receive updates, and you can add students to groups in order to stay connected. Creating a separate profile for yourself is an easy way to prevent students from seeing any personal information that you would normally have on Facebook."

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Facebook/Farcebook Character assignment

One way to make a character profile assignment more fun is to "piggyback" on the interest in Social Networking sites. Some teachers have used Facebook or MySpace to develop real, live pages, but this may seem a little daunting.  

Read-Write-Think has a great little template that will allow students to create a virtual Facebook page for a book character. There is no way to save the final project apart from printing, or "print as pdf", but with a little pre-thinking and planning, the final product can be done at a single sitting.

Check it out at:

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/profile-publisher-30067.html

Simply click on the "Get Started" button.

Teaching about Facebook

This link (from Brenda) has some great info to help students think about protecting their personal data on Facebook.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2TatUZ/mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy//r:t