Ooooh, this task was easy! I already have an account on Facebook and Myspace, both social networking sites. I also have LinkedIn, a professional networking site. These sites allow me to keep in touch with friends who live far away--especially my California friends. We all get so busy, so the social networking sites allow us to drop each other a message at our convenience. Easy and fun!
LinkedIn is a great way to network. We all say it's a small world, but that becomes apparent when you're looking for a job and your friends' connections are offering jobs. Everyone is happy!
We can't get on to most of these sites at school. However, if it were possible, and liability/safety wasn't a concern, it would be an excellent project to have students characterize the main character in their summer reading novel. Then they could create a Myspace page for their character. Because we couldn't use the site at my school, my students created a Myspace profile on a piece of poster board. They each characterized the main character in their summer reading book, a task which took a great deal of analysis and creativity. The projects turned out wonderfully!
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I like your idea of students creating a myspace page for a character. Your adjustment of having them create a poster still brought the technology into the classroom because they had to learn about the myspace structure in order to complete the assignment. It takes creative thinking like yours to update our lessons even though our technology access may be physically limited in the classroom.
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