Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Facebook for Learning


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LEARNING SESSION
This week's learning session explored Facebook and how we can use it to facilitate learning. As expected, thanks to the juicy topic 'Facebook', we had a full house (e-learning lab, I mean!). Only 25 were allowed to register, but we ended up with 32 participants, which just illustrates that Facebook is an interesting topic.

LET'S DO IT!

Based on our recent poll the majority of both Academic staff (66.7) and students (67.8) that participated think that IMU should use Facebook for e-learning.


But, where to start?

To get your Facebook social learning space moving, why not for starters create a 'Facebook Group' (especially if you want to have a closed group)?


STEP-BY-STEP
Here are two screencast tutorials exploring how to create a Facebook Group and how we could use it to facilitate learning:


Part 1 - Creating a 'Facebook Group'


Part 2 - Exploring Facebook Group Features


But...



Why not combine Moodle (E-learning Portal) and Facebook to facilitate online learning environments that sizzles :)
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By- ZaidLearn

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