When Facebook first became popular I was in high school. Going on to Facebook soon became a distraction for students and was blocked on all computers so I never thought that Facebook would become a positive thing for teachers, students, the learning environment and communication. I came across a PDF called "Drive Belonging and Engagement in the Classroom:Using Facebook" that touches on all the positive ways Facebook can be used. The first suggestion is creating a "teacher" profile, one that is completely different from your personal life. It then says to become friends with your students. You even can create a profile or page for your entire class. If a page is created for an entire class the students can then upload Youtube videos that they create, the teacher can share pictures of a student's exemplary work, or reminders for future assignments and projects can be sent out or put on the page status. The Facebook page can also be used to upload pictures that the teacher or the students have taken during different units in class, or pictures of events, objects etc that would apply to a certain unit in class. Using Facebook in a classroom doesn't seem like a bad idea after all. The only advice that I read in this article is to get permission from parents to post pictures of their child's work or of their child working in class.
Here is where I found all my information of the positives of using Facebook in the classroom.
Facebook image from flickr.com
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