What a great idea! Night Owls - Cuyahoga County (OH) Public Library’s after-hours book discussion is held on Thursday evenings in the Notes section of their Facebook page. There were about a dozen folks there tonight sharing their latest reads.
Teachers & Students & Facebook?
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If you’re a teacher/librarian, do you friend your students on Facebook? MySpace? twitter? flickr? Do you communicate via email? IM? Texting? Is Facebook different than other tools for some reason? As educators do we have the responsibility for teaching smart/safe online behavior in ALL possible contexts? Does setting up a separate account for your teacher persona solve the problems? Does your school district have a policy? Should they? Or are we trying to control what can’t be controlled? Will all this worry and fretting seem quaint in 5 years? (1?) Have you avoided the issue by not using Facebook and other ‘social’ tools?
There are some great discussions going on around these issues on Doug Johnson’s and Dean Shareski’s blogs.
- Don’t confuse social networking with educational networking
- More on “friending” students
- Control is a Worthless Pursuit
Whether you have a strong opinion on the issues or not, take a few minutes to read the various points of view expressed in these posts and comments. And add your voice to the discussions!
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
If you’re using Facebook and haven’t paid attention to who can see what you’re posting, take a look at this great post by Nick O’Neill on 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know. Facebook’s privacy settings are a bit confusing to navigate, the links in this post will help you get to the right places to manage your settings.
The 10 main points of the article were highlighted by Elyssa Kroski on iLibrarian:
This is great timing as I prepare materials for a class tomorrow on Personal Learning Networks that will cover Twitter, Facebook and other social networking tools
