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| Situation | Social networking through the use of Facebook. Overlap of teaching and personal online spaces. | |
| Group | Digital Identities | |
| Lastedited | 06/05/2008 14:10:50 | |
| Name | PersonalVersusProfessional | |
| Status | seed | |
| Created | 06/05/2008 14:10:50 | |
| License | CC-BY-NC-SA (recommended) | |
| Task | Protecting a personal online space (on Facebook) in reponse to increased student presence on the site. | |
| Actions | I was a relative latecomer to Facebook, registering my account in June 2007. before then, I had been staying in touch with old school friends through Friends Reunited. I set up a Bebo account in about 2005 and briefly flirted with MySpace the year after, but at that time, Friends Reunited provided an interface that worked for me and some of my less tech-literate but more adventurous friends. Then Facebook stormed through the 30-something generation and suddenly it became very interesting as friend numbers swelled. I set up my account just as I was starting as a student at university, but had been teaching at an FE college, and decided to use their network as a categorisation. I had a policy of only adding people I knew personally as I used it as a channel for sharing photos of my children, and, whilst I didn’t advertise my daily co-ordinates, it wouldn’t be hard to work out where I was likely to be. To me, it is important to retain an element of privacy in an on-line persona. In the October of that year, I began teaching on a module at university called Communities On-line. It was helpful to frame the significance of Social Networking for those students who weren’t familiar by setting up a working group through Facebook. At this point, I felt it would be both safer and more professional to create a new account to represent myself before my students. I was able to use the university e-mail and network and my full name and details, because my personal account was linked to my previous employer. | |
| Project | Submitted by Sarah Copeland | |
| Results | It was a useful vehicle in the autumn of 2007, and by the end of the module I think that those students who engaged had seen many more uses for social networking than simply arranging a pub night out, or commenting on photos from the previous weekend. We shared links and commented on lecture topics, and some students were more keen to use our Facebook group as an information channel than the official university VLE. This academic year, our module ran in semester 2, so began January 2009. In the 12 months since the end of the last module, the usefulness of Facebook to the module had plummeted. On a straw pole at the start of the module, most of the students had a Facebook account, and a good many of them were not now engaging with it, beyond keeping up with friends and family back home, as they were tired of the format. Twitter seemed to be so much more current. This time, several of the students joined Twitter as a result of the classes, but the numbers of students attempting to communicate outside of the official university software were surprisingly low. | |
| Lessonslearnt | I now feel I do not need to keep my second account open for next year, so will close it. The privacy setting on Facebook are much more flexible now so it will be slightly less of an issue anyway. It’s been very interesting to see such rapid changes in interaction with social network sites and how students are willing to incorporate them into their repertoire for information sharing. This is obviously a small scale observation and I do not know if this is a wider trend. | |
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