Teaching and Learning with Facebook - Easy, interactive and enjoyable Millie Watts

Teaching and Learning with Facebook

Easy, interactive and enjoyableMillie Watts

Teacher of Geology and GeographyRichard Huish College

Richard Huish CollegeShaping your future

Why Facebook?• 800 Million active users• Unparalleled degree of

interactivity• Embedded Digital

Literacy Skills• Integration with a

range of other web 2.0 tools

• “Drip Feed” information to students


How?

• Used mainly as an addition to classroom content.

• The aim is to enhance what is taught in the classroom by providing easy to access, free stimulus material.

• Provides a new form of interaction with staff and peers.


Issues• Privacy and Training• Updates to Facebook• Highly seasonal• Works best integrated

with other technologies• Cyber-bullying potential


Sharing resources


Visual Learning


Apps


Apps


Events


YouTube


Document Sharing


Document Embedding


Blog Integration


Pinterest

• Very new.• No formal app.• Can be added as a static

HTML page.• Use will be improved

once Pinterest App comes out.


Timeline


Historical Events

• Can be added back to 1800.

• Uses: History, Case Studies, key discoveries

• Creates a content rich page for students to explore.


Summary

• An addition to your current practice, not a new technology to master.

• Ever improving?• FB as a VLE?• A means to centralize

other online activities• Exam Support


Education

Teaching and Learning with Facebook - Easy, interactive and enjoyable Millie Watts