To Facebook or not to Facebook

This week we looked into the possible uses of Facebook or other social networking sites in the classroom. We discussed the possible benefits that these sites could provide for our students, and specifically how they could be used. I was amazed to see how many educationally centered applications existed on Facebook, and it was fun to imagine ways that they could be implemented into the classroom. I even got to create my own idea for an application that would be useful for the student population that I work with. Unfortunately with the good often comes the bad. We discussed the possible problems that could arise with these tools, and even read an example of a teacher that was fired due to inappropriate comments she made on Facebook. Overall week three got me more excited at the possibilities than worried about the pitfalls.