By Mackenzie Holland and Cailey Perlas

 

 

What is Fakebook?

 

"Fakebook" is a website that allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages.  It is not affiliated with Facebook; however many of the features are similar.   Students and/or  teachers may create their own fake profile, add a group of friends, update "their" status, and comment on their page as one of the friends.  By bringing the site to the classroom, students will be able to create profiles of the characters in a book they read.  They can organize the plot by adding status update of what went on in the story and contribute comments in ways that the other character reacted/responded.

 

Start your own Fakebook page today!

http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page

 

Creating Your Own Fakebook Profile:

 

 

 

Examples:

 

 

See the full "Harry Potter" page at: http://www.classtools.net/fb/51/NEhbEQ

 

 

 

 

See the full "Number the Stars" page at: http://www.classtools.net/fb/92/bMK2RH#

 

 

 

What is Facebook™?

 

Facebook™ is a social networking site created by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Harvard classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.  Originally, Zuckerberg created a site called Facemash and a year later he began writing a code that later turned into Facebook™.  He launched the site in February of 2004.  Facebook™ is used worldwide and allows its members to communicate with one another through messaging, commenting, poking, and liking.  There are also ways to create groups that allow multiple people to come into contact with each other in one area--making it easier for friends to plan things as well as businesses trying to tell their ideas.  Any user can create a group and invite other users to join it. Group administrators can message all the members of a group, so long as there are less than 5000 members.  Within the site, members create profile that they add personal information of their choice to.  This includes pictures, contact information, videos, thoughts, etc.  Friends and other members can browse through pictures and status updates of one another and begin to add comments or "like" them.

 

https://www.facebook.com/

 

Creating Your Own Facebook Groups:

 

 

Most groups on Facebook are created for a specific purpose.  The groups want only the members to view the information.  Because of this, we have created a mock book discussion allowing our friends to talk about two books: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling  and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.  In the groups, Misses Write asks the class different questions based on each chapter of the group.  In order to participate in the discussions, the students pick a post made by the teacher and they respond by commenting underneath.  By using Facebook, the student would be able to not only respond to the teacher's questions, but also include their reactions to their classmates comments.

 

Examples:

 

Book Talk: Number the Stars

 

Book Talk: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 

Articles of Facebook Use in the Classroom:

 

Project Muse: Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/pedagogy/v010/10.3.fife.html

Using Facebook and Twitter as an LMS: http://www.slideshare.net/jcritten/using-facebook-and-twitter-as-an-lms

About Fakebook and Twister: (Fake Facebook and Fake Twitter pages): http://ilearntechnology.com/?tag=fakebook

Teacher-Made Templates: http://web20edu.com/2011/04/16/fake-facebook-templates-and-pages-for-student-projects/

Teacher uses Fakebook in http://teflgeek.net/2011/03/31/online-teaching-tool-fakebooks/

 

Need help making a Fakebook page? Can't remember all the details in your book? Try out SparkNotes!

 

What is SparkNotes?

 

SparkNotes is a website created in 1999 by students at Harvard University. It was first known as TheSpark.com and it originally provided students with study guides. Later, the creators changed the name of the website to SparkNotes and once the website was bought by Barnes & Noble in 2001, the site began to provide literature study guides and synopses. According to the SparkNotes website, "SparkNotes is a resource you can turn to when you're confuzzled" (SparkNotes, LLC, 2012).

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/

 

 

 

References

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Cain-Jackson, Bryan. "Lawsuit Against Facebook Over "Like" Button." Technorati. Technorati, Inc., 11 May 2011. Web. 6 Jun 2012. http://technorati.com/social-media/article/lawsuit-against-facebook-over-like-button/

 

Harry potter and the sorcerer's stone questions. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.shmoop.com/harry-potter-sorcerers-stone/questions.html

 

How to create a Facebook group. 2010. Video. Youtube.com. Web. 6 Jun 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PM9q0GTY8Q>.

 

Lowry, L. (1989). Number the stars. New York: Yearling.

 

Number the stars questions and answers. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.enotes.com/number-stars/q-and-a/

 

Rowling, J. K. (1998). Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: Scholastic Inc.

 

Sparknotes: Harry potter and the sorcerer's stone. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/harrypotter/study.html

 

SparkNotes, LLC. (2012). Sparknotes. Retrieved from http://www.sparknotes.com/about/

 

Sparknotes: Number the stars. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/numberthestars/study.html

 

Student comments about number the stars. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.planetbookclub.com/kids/archive/stars4.01/scomments.html

 

Tarr, Russel. "Fakebook." ClassTools.net. ActiveHistory.co.uk Limited, n.d. Web. 6 Jun 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PM9q0GTY8Q>.

 

Temnikov, Alex. "Fake us on: fakebook."alexeytemnikov.ru | Saytifitsiruy it!. N.p., 17 Oct 2010. Web. 6 Jun 2012. <http://alexeytemnikov.ru/tag/fakebook/>.

 

"What is Facebook?." wiseGeek. Conjecture Corporation, 2003. Web. 6 Jun 2012. <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-facebook.htm>.

 

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2012, June 2). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparkNotes