Here are my ideas for my project. I am hoping for some feedback. Thanks!
Basically, I want to look at Facebook as a (potential) tool in the composition classroom. I do not mean just a tool for analysis or discussion, but as a way to make certain practices, behaviors, and ideas "visible."
One argument in the conversation suggests that these social sites should be kept separate from the classroom, since they do not ask students to really "engage" educationally. I am wondering how the writing classroom could provide spaces and opportunities to engage these social networking sites (in terms of the assumptions, interfaces, and practices they engender) critically.
I want to make a website that provides information about it, samples of student writing, and theoretical discussions. However, I'm not sure what form this website should take. Any suggestions?
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Facebook has been in the news a lot lately. I'm also willing to guess that it's been examined in academic medias as well. Perhaps start taking a look at these and maybe you'll be able to flesh out your own take on it better.
This sounds really interesting, Sarah. One of the complications that I see here is professors/instructors hesitency to add students to face book. Part of this I get--there is an implied age group of people who use facebook. So "old school" profs aren't necessarily going to see this as a tool. And those who do use it, want their privacy, where as their students (some) want openness, especially younger students, and desire to share in community in this way.
Some of my questions would be: How do you plan on researching this considering said gaps (I think you asked a question similar to this already)? If there are facebook sites that already do this, is it real 'transparency'? Or is the transparency limited to what the instructor/professor of the class allows? How does one move beyond limits to engage in 'real' 'academic' 'community' (like my three quote marks there?) on facebook? And many, many more... Looking forward to see where you go with this, Sarah!
P.S. Your hair looked especially nice today ;)
This is an intriguing idea. Like Mathilda mentioned, I'm one of the instructors who is reluctant to give my students access to my profile. I guess it's okay for them to find out about my husband, family, and dog through random weird stories I tell in class, but I don't really want them able to see my whole "friends" list or all the photos of Florian and me at different life stages. Maybe I'm just paranoid. (Right, Ms. Chun?)
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