Facebook @ Bjec 07

Facebook in Jewish Education

Daniel [email protected]

BJEC PD Day, November 7 2007

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Where we’re going...

• What is Facebook?

• Teaching towards safer Facebooking? (The Challenges of Facebook)

• Engaging through Facebook

• Before and after- Facebook for continuing relationships

• Facebook as a mode for education

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www.facebook.com

http://www.facebook.com/

What is Facebook?

• Social networking site launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while studying at Harvard.

• First for Harvard students, then for any ‘.edu’ address, now open to the whole web.

• Individuals can set up ‘profiles’ with information about themselves. They can then become ‘friends’ others and join ‘groups’

The Prevalence of Facebook

• As of October 2007, 42 million registered users. Expected to pass 60 million users by the end of the year

• Ranked a one of top 10-20 websites - number one for photos with over 8.5 millions photos uploaded daily

• According to TechCrunch, "about 85% of students in supported colleges have a profile . [Of those who are signed up,] 60% log in daily. About 85% log in at least once a week, and 93% log in at least once a month."

• • On October 24, 2007, the Associated Press reported

Microsoft had bought a 1.6% share of the company for $240 million.

My Highschool Network

What can you do on Facebook?

• Personal info

• Friends

• Groups

• Pictures

• The Wall

• Messages

• Applications

My Facebook Profile

http://yorku.facebook.com/profile.php?id=48904281

http://yorku.facebook.com/profile.php?id=48904281

The Challenges of Facebook

• Educating youth in three areas:

• Representing themselves

• Representing their friends

• Representing their community


• Photos, videos, disparaging comments, posting phone numbers, personal information, information about organizations, etc.


•What is the responsibility of the organization?

•What should be the role of the educator?

•How far into the student’s ‘home life’ should the educator dig?

•What should be on an educator’s profile?

Engaging through Facebook

• Advertising organizations and events

• Creating Networks and virtual ‘communities’


Tet

http://yorku.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211350089

Organizations



http://yorku.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2463574714

Events




Events


Before and After...

• Create connections amongst participants and with educators before even meeting

• Continue community building and socialization after an event

• Shift the traditional teacher-student relationship

• Share experiences, pictures and continued excitement after an event.

CHAT Shabbaton



SABJE DIJE



Facebook as a Pedagogic Tool

• Meet students where they are and begin to speak their cultural language

• Get students excited through a pedagogic tool with which they are already engaged

• Extend learning outside of the classroom

YU Learning-to-Go

Facebook as a Pedagogic Tool

http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1071870092

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