1) The document discusses using Web 2.0 technologies like Facebook in the classroom to engage students. It argues these technologies can create a powerful learning environment by merging creative, collaborative, and social capabilities. 2) Some benefits mentioned are allowing students to communicate and learn in ways they are already familiar with, promoting collaboration, and enabling blended learning. However, concerns about privacy and professionalism are also raised. 3) The document provides examples of how Facebook could be used as a learning management system, including for sharing content, hosting discussions, and collaborating. It emphasizes the need for instructors to approach social media use responsibly and supplement it with good teaching.

1. Face it – Web 2.0 technologies in your
classes can be a winning solution
Reginald D. Miles
Howard University
Assistant Professor
Coordinator of Distance and Online Education

2. Reggie Miles – Dept. of RTVF – Howard University
Assistant Professor – School of Communications
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from the learner; put yourself in his place so that
you may understand what he learns and the way he
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3. From Website to Web 2.0 Applications
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4. Students and Social Networking
Social Networking is the way students communicate. It
involves the grouping of individuals into specific groups.
Social networking websites function like an online
community of Internet users.

5. Social Media In Action
The Impact of Facebook
Facebook is now used by 1 in every 13 people on earth, with
over 250 million of them (over 50%) who log in every day.
92 People Like This 48% of 18-34 year olds check Facebook when they wake up,
with 28% doing so before even getting out of bed.
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Social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook are
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ubiquitous and university students are spending a great deal
of time on them.
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6. Junco (2011). The relationship between frequency of Facebook use,
participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement:
Computers & Education 58 (2011) 162–171
The Impact of Facebook
Facebook is the most popular social media website for
college students between 85 and 99% of college students
use Facebook
Students feel comfortable with educational applications of
Facebook, faculty are not ready to engage with them in
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LMS Vendors are emulating the simple clean interface of
FACEBOOK in their systems. ( Blackboard & Canvas)

7. Mazer, J. P., Murphy, R.E., & Simonds, C. J. (2007). I’ll see you
on ‘Facebook’: Communication Education, 56, 1-17.
Who’s Using Facebook
Today’s students value new learning tools and
customizable digital homework products that
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personalized study plans. Recent investigations
have pointed out that Facebook can have a positive
effect on the student-to-student and student-to-
teacher relationship.

8. Impact of Social Networks
• Social Networks are highly effective as a means of
engaging and exciting students in a learning
environment.
• Student learning increases when experimental
techniques are used, combined with a lecture format.
(Blended Learning)
• Students show a natural proclivity towards social
networking in their daily lives.

9. Why Facebook?
 Facebook is popular (Students are already there)
 Provides students with e-mail, web communities and
audio and video capabilities. (communication and
collaboration)
 Students learn to use technologies associated with “Web
92 People Like This 2.0” architecture. (Podcasting, Blogging, Photo Sharing)
 Allows students to “time-shift” the learning experience.
(Content playable on demand)
 Allows instructors to utilize blended learning techniques.
(Face to face and virtual)

10. Use Facebook as Teaching tool
 To share presentations and notes with students
 To answer questions from students about
assignments
 To humanize yourself in the eyes of students
92 People Like This  To share the productions students have done with
each other.
 To find other professors and exchange ideas and best
practices
 To provide 24/7 forum of collaboration with content
on demand.

11. Everything Web 2.0 is linkable
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12. Harnessing the Power
There are reservations by professors about being a
“friend” with students and justifiably so.
Instructors using social networks should always be
concerned about the level of contact with
students. There is only one way that a professor
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should act on a social network with a student and
that is in a professional capacity. Create a separate
profile to use Facebook with students.

13. One Teacher Two Profiles
Personal Profile Professor Profile
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14. The Facebook Group
Harnessing the Power
The Group function if Facebook allows the creation of a
virtual classroom. Groups can be designated as open,
closed and secret thereby limiting access to Facebook. A
professor can maintain privacy typically linked to other
educational tools like Blackboard or WebCT which can
only be accessed by registered students.
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15. The Facebook Group
Engaging the students in this forum
• Promotes Collaboration
• Driving the content of the course through collaborating
• Driving students to learn the production culture
• Better articulate their opinions in open academic
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• Promotes academic discussion outside of the
classroom
• Requires that students evaluate other posts
• The social influence from their peers*

16. Translating to the Student in the Classroom
Student Podcast Site (E-Portfolio)
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17. The Facebook Group as a LMS
Blogs, Audio, Photo and Video Sharing
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18. The Facebook Group as a LMS
Blogs, Audio, Photo and Video Sharing
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19. Events as Class Reminders
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20. Events as Class Reminders
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21. Provides Constant Feedback
Students want
feedback
from
Peers & Instructors
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22. Instructor Supplemental Aids
Video
Audio
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23. Concerns about using Facebook
 University Policies
 Responsible use
 Professionalism
 Digital Copyright
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 Privacy

24. Strengths
 Interactions and conversations can be backtracked.
 Permits self-paced work with “virtually” unlimited
resources available 24/7
 Records time stamps continually
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 Encourages instructor-student interactivity inside
and outside of class
 Fosters observing and learning from peers
 Provides multi-faceted answers to complex
questions

25. Strengths
 A mechanism for timely notification and feedback
 Collaborative learning opportunities
 Engenders enthusiasm and prompts creative
responses
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 Preserves end products in both digital and
“downloadable” formats
 Creates multiple opportunities to learn material and
ability to include multimedia, podcasts both audio
and video.

26. Deficiencies
 Some students don’t take it seriously
 Time-consuming and demanding pedagogy
 Disinterested students lacking Facebook
experience
92 People Like This  Difficult assessment and evaluation
 Additional imperatives to manage “privacy” and
guard against “non-students”
 Tedious management of the class Group

27. The Learning Management System
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28. Thoughts on Facebook and Canvas
• Easy and intuitive
• Requires little or no training
• LMS creation is simple; not a burden on teachers,
• On-demand video/audio
• Online test taking
• Communication between students and instructor
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• Personal Audio/Video messages to students
• Student Centered learning
• Available 24/7

29. Thoughts on using Social Media
 Professors will need to independently access
Facebook and evaluate its potential.
 An investment of time is necessary
 Emphasize responsible use students
 A commitment to changing and updating
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materials for sharing must be made.
 Do not compel students to participate let them
discover on their own the advantages.
 Technology supplements a good teacher; it does
not act in place as one.

30. Conclusion
By using technologies that students are comfortable
with like Facebook and other Web 2.0 technologies,
faculty can create a powerful learning environment
through the merging of the creative, collaborative,
social, and interactive capabilities of this powerful
platform. Higher education should familiarize
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themselves with Web 2.0 technologies to design and
support interventions that meet students where
they are in order to help them get to where they are
going.

31. Thank You
Reginald D. Miles
Coordinator of On Line Education
Howard University
Website: http://reggiemiles.net
92 People Like This Email: rmiles@howard.edu
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