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How To Integrate Facebook into
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Denise Knowles
October 6, 2010
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How To Integrate Facebook into
your Teaching
Denise Knowles
Personal Motto
“I would rather motivate and teach a
student a discipline than just teach them
the discipline”
~Denise Knowles
©2010 Denise Knowles
Are You On Facebook?
So many students, teachers,
and librarians are on
Facebook these days
 This social media site has
become a free platform that
educator can use.
 We are going to look at some
of the applications and tools
that represent some of the
ideal tools Facebook has to
offer for education. And, how
to set up a group for a
course or project.
 www.facebook.com
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Observing Students
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The Library is a place
to observe the study
habits and social
behavior of students
 Walk through your library
and observe the students
at the computers.
 What are they working
on?…..I bet 80% are on
Facebook
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Why not use a tool they
already know and are
using
Surveyed and Observed Students at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Observed that they were
answering paper questionnaires:
 They were bored
 Looking at their watches
 Fooling around
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Surveyed a group of college
students at the aquarium:
 If you were asked to use your cell
phones to answer the questions
regarding the aquarium, would you
prefer it?
○ “Yes!!! What a great idea!!!!”
 Do you have a device that would
enable you to this?
○ All said, “yes.”
(there were at least 20 students)
©2010 Denise Knowles
Why don’t we use the technology our
students love and possess to engage them?
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The Average College Student’s Media of Choice
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Students come to campus with a mountain of
devices.
Projected annual technology spending among
college students (ages 18-30) has reached an
all time high of $6.5 billion annually*
They spend a significant part of their day
engaged with their must-have "tech" gadgets.
Students' have an increasing mobility and
need for 24/7 connection
They have a rapid year-over-year increases in
ownership of both laptops and MP3 players.
Desktop ownership for 18-30 years old college
students is down to 46%; while laptops are
now more preferred by 18-30 year olds at 75%
of students reporting ownership *.
*College Explorer Survey (2009). Alloy Media & Marketing. Totally Wired Campus – The Class of 2013 Gets High “Tech” Grades:
Retrieved from : http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/clientnews/Alloy_Media_Marketing_WiredCampus_Nov12_2009.pdf
[2010, January 25].
©2010 Denise Knowles
The World is a mobile device’s oyster
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Data from
http://www.gsm.org/counter.aspx
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GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications:
Most popular mobile phone standard
GSM is considered a second generation (2G) mobile
phone system. It enables the wide-spread
implementation of data communication applications
into the system. Presently, we are at the 4G level.
According to my calculation (2/25/2010), 62% of the
world’s population has access to data applications
through their mobile devices.
Data from http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
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Cell Phone Are Part of Our Anatomy
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Nine out of every 10
Americans own a cell phone
More people have cell
phones than an Internet
connections .
On average, American
individuals get a new mobile
device approximately every
18 months .
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Retrieved from:
http://streetknowledge.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/cellphonesbrain-cancer/
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New York Times Bits (October 17, 2008), AT&T Wants More Web-Enabled Devices. Retrieved from: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/att-wants-more-webenabled-devices/ [February 23, 2010].
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GSM World (October 2006), Mobile Phone Lifecycles:Use, Take-back, Reuse and Recycle. Retrieved from:
http://www.gsmworld.com/documents/health/research/GSMA_200610_MobileLifecycles_Final_English.pdf / [February 23, 2010].
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Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent
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MARKET SHARE OF U.S. INTERNET VISITS TO
TOP 5 SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
Rank
Name
Sept
2009
Aug
2009
Sept
2008
Year-over-year
percent change
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Facebook
58.59%
55.15%
19.94%
194%
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MySpace
30.26%
33.00%
66.84%
-55%
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Tagged
2.38%
2.36%
1.62%
47%
4
Twitter
1.84%
1.95%
0.15%
1170%
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myYearbook
1.05%
1.16%
1.76%
-40%
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Experian Hitwise. (October 9, 2009). Facebook Visits Increased 194 Percent in Past Year.
Retrieved from : http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/social-networking-sept-09 [2010, January 25].
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MySpace is on its way
out
Facebook and Twitter
are the hot trends
Why not incorporate
these power houses
into our classrooms to
engage students.
Shouldn’t you be using
the hottest trend rather
than the social
networking site you
prefer.
Facebook Top Search Term in 2009
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According to Experian®
Hitwise® Facebook was
the top-searched term
overall for 2009.
This is the first time that the
social networking Website
has been the top search
term
Facebook accounted for
1.09% of all searches. In
fact, four variations of the
term "facebook" were
among the top 25 terms.
Experian Hitwise. (December 15, 2009). Facebook Top Search Term in 2009. Online Retrieved from : http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/facebook-top-search-termin-2009/ [2010, January 25].
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Top 10 Searches and Websites
Top 10 most-searched terms
Top 10 most-visited Websites
2009
2008
2009
2008
facebook
myspace
www.google.com
www.google.com
myspace
craigslist
mail.yahoo.com
mail.yahoo.com
craigslist
ebay
www.facebook.com
www.myspace.com
youtube
google
www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.com
yahoo mail
myspace.com
www.myspace.com
mail.live.com
google
yahoo
mail.live.com
www.ebay.com
yahoo
youtube
www.youtube.com
search.yahoo.com
ebay
yahoo mail
search.yahoo.com
www.msn.com
facebook login
yahoo.com
www.msn.com
www.facebook.com
myspace.com
facebook
www.ebay.com
www.youtube.com
Experian Global Press Office. (2009). Facebook Top Search Term in 2009. Online Retrieved from : http://press.experian.com/documents/showdoc.cfm?doc=3724/ [2010, February 18].
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Facebook Ideas:
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Post lesson plans and notes. Instructors can post lesson plans. Students and other
instructors can benefit from having access to these lesson plans. Just add a link to
the plan.
Post Class Notes. a great place to post notes before and after class. Students who
missed a class won’t be completely in the dark and instructors can refer back to notes.
Set up Events. a great place to post events.
Role Playing. Students acts as a famous character that is relate to your topic. This
character posts things that pertain to their history. For example, someone role plays
FDR and another role plays an advisor of that time with actual historical facts.
Posting A Project. The student post their progress on a project. Or, comments /
reports on the subject. Such as a museum visit.
Book Reports. As a student is reading a book, they post their thoughts and
impression; along with reporting on what is going on. They would do this over the
course of reading the book. It would document that they really read the book and
didn’t wait until the 11th hour. ie post: Gone with the Wind, pages 250-300, “Scarlett
will never be hungry again. It made me sad to read her pain.”
Celebrating student work
Sharing events and announcements
Announcing events
Use Videos to Share Tips, Advice, and Lessons to Parents and Students
Connecting with Other Classes
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Old Art Assignment Example
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Students are asked to visit
an art museum
The student is asked to
describe the artwork they
are viewing; name; artist;
type; thoughts/impressions;
etc.
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New Age Art Assignment Example
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Students have the option of
visiting an art museum using
handhelds
The student is asked to
describe the artwork they
are viewing through
Facebook or Twitter; name;
artist; type;
thoughts/impressions; etc.
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Did You Know Abraham Lincoln Is Tweeting?
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A graduate student at Utah State
University is using Twitter to send
short messages out to the world in
the voice of Abraham Lincoln and
other historical figures.
On his site TwHistory, a Web site
devoted to historical re-enactments
via Twitter. TwHistory has staged
such reenactment as the battle of
Gettysburg. Where re-enactors write
in the voice of a handful of key
characters, including Lincoln.
Each Twitter account that a person is
trying to portray represents a
historical figure. For example, one
graduate student writes Tweets
using exact quotes from the diaries
of soldiers.
These re-enactments can be used as
learning exercises for students. You
can assign students to research
historical diaries and other sources
to write their own tweets.
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Mobile Web
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You can use the main
features of the site with
m.facebook.com, such as...
 wall posts
 adding friends
 uploading photos
 and creating events.
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Information on:
http://www.facebook.com/h
elp/?page=823
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Texting
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You can text Facebook to:
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update your status
send a poke on the go
receive texts
Pokes
wall posts from your friends right
when they happen.
 Standard text message rates
apply.
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Mobile Texting:
http://www.facebook.com/hel
p/?page=821
Good resource for how to
accomplish certain tasks:
http://www.facebook.com/hel
p/?page=821#!/mobile/?texts
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What is a Group?
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You can create a group by going to the Groups
application and clicking "Create a Group" in the upper
right corner of the page.
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Creating a Group for Projects
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You are able to add
descriptive information
about your group.
All groups require a group
name, description and
group type.
Click "Create Group" when
you are finished.
After you have added this
information, you will then
be able to control settings
related to your group’s
privacy and add a group
picture.
You can change these
settings at any time by
clicking "Edit Group" on
the group’s main page.
Admin Settings
After creating the group, you
are asked a series of admin
questions.
 Access to the group (the only
two you should consider:
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 This group is closed (my
recommendation) -Admins must
approve requests for new
members to join. Anyone can
see the group description, but
only members can see the Wall,
discussion board, and photos.
 This group is secret - The
group will not appear in search
results or in the profiles of its
members. Membership is by
invitation only, and only
members can see the group
information and content.
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This Group is Secert
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If you picked “This
group is a secret”
in the group’s Admin
section:
 You can only invite
friends.
 This is a slippery
slope when it comes
to personal privacy.
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This Group is Closed
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My recommendation
If you picked,
“This group is
closed” in the
group admin
section:
 Users can find you in
a search and Request
to Join.
 This is what a non
member will see
when searching for
the group.
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Email Requesting Membership
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When someone has found you in search, they can
request to join
Verify this is in fact a student of the course
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Student’s Cannot See You?
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If you have set your profile correctly, students
will only see this type of profile.
More on security later.
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Setting the Officers
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Here I have added myself as the instructor.
The naming of the type of officers is arbitrary
You could add an teaching assistant
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How the group appears
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Once the group is
created. This is how
it looks.
Notice how I am a
member.
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Group In Your Profile
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Once a member,
the group will
appear in that
member's profile
Groups vs. Pages
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Groups: meant to foster
group discussion
around a particular
topic
Pages: allow entities
such as public figures
and organizations to
broadcast information
to their fans. Only the
authorized
representative of the
entity can run a Page.
Projects Example
In this example, the
students are using the
discussion board to
journalize their reading
progress for a book
report.
 The date and time is
recorded when a student
posts. So, deadlines can
be followed.
 Not as robust as a CMS
discussion board.
 Students can post to this
site from their mobile
devices.
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Application Example
weRead
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Book application on
Facebook.
List, rate, and write
reviews for the books
you have read.
Great idea for an
engaging book report.
Navigate to:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applic
ation.php?v=wall&id=2406120893
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Click on “Go To
Application”
Facebook Applications For Learning
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Facebook offers many
applications that pertain
to education
You can find
Applications for
Education at:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v
=app_2344061033&ref=profile&id=100
000650498842#/apps/directory.php?a
pp_type=0&category=200
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English Project Ideas For WeRead
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As a course
introduction they can
find their favorite book
and mark it as a
favorite.
They can search for a
book and take a quiz
on the book.
Debate about a book
with others. Which
can prompt them to
get passionate about
reading
You Can Add Applications To The Group Page
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WeRead Application
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In this example, I
have added a tab for
the weRead
application into my
LMC English 101
group site.
I did this by clicking
on the + sign at the
end of the tabs
Applications that can be used for education
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myPersonality: makes real psychological research accessible, fun and interactive.
Quizzes: social quizzing system. Flow through over a million different user generated quizzes.
Books iRead: Share the books you're reading, and see what others think of books with this
application.
DoResearch4me: This app makes it easy to gather information using your thesis statement,
instructions, and more.
Flashcards: With this application, you can create flash cards to help you study on Facebook.
Wikiseek Search: Use this research tool to find Wikipedia articles and more through Facebook.
SkoolPool: Get the lowdown on schools, online and otherwise, with this neat application.
Rate My Professors: Find out what other students think of professors before you register for
their class.
JSTOR Search: Find full text research articles on Facebook with this application.
Notely: Organize your school life with Notely, an app that helps you wrangle your calendar,
notes, assignments, and more.
Study Groups: Get everyone together on your group project by collaborating with this
application.
Get Homework Help: This application will get you connected with tutors and other students
that can help you with your assignments.
SwapRoll: Save money on textbooks by trading them with the Swap Roll application.
Notecentric: Take notes right inside of Facebook and share them with classmates using this
application.
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Applications that can be used for education (con’t)
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Class Notes: Use this application to find scanned notes for your classes on Facebook.
For Teachers and Administrators
Share assignments, slides, and so much more with these applications.
BookTag: This app offers a great way to share and loan books out to students, plus create helpful quizzes for
studying.
Webinaria Screencast Recorder: Record a video for students, and share it with this application.
Mathematical Formulas: Distribute formulas, solutions, and more with this application.
SlideShare: Create presentations to send to students with this slideshow application.
For Everyone
These apps are great for just about anyone in online education.
Calendar: This calendar app from 30 Boxes lets you organize your days, set reminders and share your
calendar with others.
To-Do List: Stay on top of your tasks with this Facebook to-do application.
Zoho Online Office: With this office application, you can keep all of your documents online, and even share
them with classmates, students, and colleagues.
Courses: Courses offers loads of functionality for online education, with features that let you add your courses,
post announcements and assignments, search university reviews find classmates, create discussions and form
study groups.
Files: Powered by Box.net, this application makes it easy to store and retrieve documents in Facebook, so you
can access them anywhere you have a connection.
WorldCat: Use WorldCat to do research, catalog your library's collection, and share information with students.
HeyMath!: These mini-movies explain difficult math concepts, so these are great to share with students or use
on your own.
CourseFeed: Take advantage of CourseFeed's class sharing, announcements, file storage, notifications, and
more on Facebook.
©2010 Denise Knowles
Facebook’s New Security
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On May 26th, 2010
Facebook announced they
were rolling out new,
simpler settings for
controlling what you share.
Read about the changes
at http://bit.ly/dwUHfb
Facebook and Privacy
Page: living resource for
information on how to
control your sharing as
well as a forum for
discussing privacy with the
people who use Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/security
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Facebook Limited Lists
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You can only have
one account per email
address.
Facebook does not
allow two accounts
They advice Limit
Lists
 Caveat: you have to be
a friend first before you
can add someone to a
limit list.
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Privacy Settings
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Under
Account,
Click on
“Privacy
Settings”
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It is important to make this site
private.
If you have private contacts in
your Outlook, Facebook invades
your privacy and grabs those
email addresses. Then
connects those contacts with
their Facebook account and
grabs their friends that have
similarities as you.
For example: Facebook
accounts that are using the
losmedanos.edu email accounts
will be matched up with you.
Click on “Account” at the top of
your page. Short menu should
appear
Click on “Privacy Settings.”
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Privacy Settings (Con’t)
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What
Setting is
chosen
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The settings you choose, control
which people and applications
can see your information.
You can share your information
with friends, friends of friends or
everyone.
I suggest you change everything
but your profile picture to “Friends
Only.”
This way only students you
accept as friends can see your
profile.
You can Click on the “View
Settings” at the top of the page to
view what others will see with
your new settings and some
additional settings.
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Choose Your Privacy Settings
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I suggest you go
through every option
and change to what
you think is best for
your course.
I would make it as
private as possible.
The settings in the
graphic are the ones
I suggest for a course
Click on “Preview My
Profile” to see how
your settings will look
to others
Click “Back to
Privacy to return to
the main page.
Blocking Others
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At the bottom of the
main privacy page is
“Block List.”
 Add users you do not
want to see you or
communicate with you
 Reuse for a new term:
you can block out last
term’s students
 Block out students who
have dropped
Blocking
Students
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Applications and Websites
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Refining
privacy
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You can further
refine your security
by clicking on
Applications and
Websites at the
bottom of the main
Privacy page.
Application and Web Sites
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What you disable is
what you feel is best
for your course.
Do enable “Friends
Only” on the Game
and application
activity. Otherwise,
your students might
not see your activity
on some
applications you
might be using.
Warning On Applications and Websites
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Applications you use will access your
Facebook information in order for them
to work. For example, a review
application uses your location in order
to surface restaurant recommendations.
When you visit a Facebook-enhanced
application or website, it may access
any information you have made visible
to Everyone.
It will also access any publicly available
information. This includes your Name,
Profile Picture, Gender, Current City,
Networks, Friend List, and Pages.
The application will request your
permission to access any additional
information it needs.
Closely review your “Application and
Websites” privacy settings by going
Clicking Settings
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Events?
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Invite students to an
event. ie: a study session,
lecture, workshop, etc.
 When the invite is received
by the students they can
RSVP
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You can add links to
supporting documents for
the session.
You can even create this
event for a regular faceto-face class session and
use this feature to add
supporting content.
You can also send a
message in the invite
Profile Badge
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Click on “Create a
Profile Badge
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You can create a
Profile Badge that
can be used to direct
your students to your
Facebook page from
another Web site or
CMS
Click on “Create a
Profile Badge”
Creating a Profile Badge
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Copy and paste
this code into
your Web page
or CMS
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Click on “Other”
Other will create the
code you will need to
embed into your Web
page, CMS, or portal
page.
Embedding the Badge
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I have embedded this
badge into my
personal Web site on
our SharePoint intranet
How you embed will
vary on what is being
used.
FrontLine Videos
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A great series of videos on digital
learners can be found at :
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
digitalnation/view/
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Contact Information
Denise Knowles
Los Medanos College
Web Application Specialist
Email: [email protected]
2700 East Leland Blvd.
Pittsburg, CA 94565-5197
(925) 439-2181, ext 3481
Fax: (925) 427-1599
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