Social Networking
Trustworthness Poster
Friends and Social Networking
Do you use a social networking site? Why or why not? How do you think it effects your relationships with your friends?
Only students of this class can participate in discussions. login
What about your professional life?
Your character does matter. You want to protect your reputation and create positive first impressions. What would you want a potential employer to see if they were to go onto your SN page?
Description
Social networking (SN) websites are virtual communities where you can meet others who share similar interests and activities. Many of these sites (like Facebook and MySpace) offer many ways to interact, like chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, and discussion groups. For obvious reasons, having a one-stop shopping site for all your communication with friends is very cool. However, some of these websites can pose risks.
Connections to Virginia SOLs
English 7.8, 8.7
If students are using online tools for written communications, address the general safety issues.
History/Social Science USII.8, CE.3, CE.8, CE.10, CE.11, CE.12
Students exploring the impact of new technologies on our culture should examine safety issues related to the Internet and other electronic communication devices.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to...
- Explore the impact of social networking sites on their personal and professional lives
Suggested Activities
1. In-Class Activity or Take-Home Assignment: Have students look at each others' MySpace, Facebook, etc. page and get information about them and present it to the class. If there is something that the student does not want shared have the presenter mention how many times that occurred. This activity should highlight what is too personal and who can see it.
2. In-Class Activity: Have volunteers and/or older students (High School, College) talk about previous topics of cyber bullying and their impressions and tips about social networking. Prior to this activity, prepare your volunteers for this discussion by familiarizing them with the Educator's Edition and its resources.
3. Use statistics on Social Networking sites and teens as an opportunity to identify key components of graphs (title, x-axis title, y-axis title, key). This activity can be incorporated into a mathematics lesson whereby the instructor helps students identify and understand the best graph to display certain statistics.
2. In-Class Activity: Have volunteers and/or older students (High School, College) talk about previous topics of cyber bullying and their impressions and tips about social networking. Prior to this activity, prepare your volunteers for this discussion by familiarizing them with the Educator's Edition and its resources.
3. Use statistics on Social Networking sites and teens as an opportunity to identify key components of graphs (title, x-axis title, y-axis title, key). This activity can be incorporated into a mathematics lesson whereby the instructor helps students identify and understand the best graph to display certain statistics.
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