I know many of you use Facebook. Many of your students are on Facebook after school, heck they are there during school. Why not try using something like it in the classroom. I have attached two powerpoint templates of a Fakebook page. What I think will work with this is that students will have to take information and transform it into a medium they are familiar with to communicate in. Students can be very creative at this.
A Fakebook page could be used in English for characters in To Kill a Mockingbird or a historical figure or even a concept from science. For example, they can pretend they are part of a chemical reaction. They could make a page for a particular compound where they explain their part in a reaction with their posts. Maybe in Geography they can be a country. In French maybe they can be an irregular verb. In Math they can be a formula or a trig function. In Physed health they could be an STD. In Art/Music it could be a famous artist/musician or even better a famous piece of art or music. You get the idea. Just a thought. Hopefully the students will get into this. Hopefully you will.
I have also included an instruction sheet and marking scheme (you can make your own rubric) that you will have to modify to fit your own course, personality and what your objectives for this assignment are. Students may want to modify the Fakebook template so it looks like they latest incarnation of Facebook via Photoshop etc. Have them submit this to you digitally. How? I will send out a post next week about a few teacher friendly sites for this.
I will post the templates here when I get an FTP program working at work.
