Wiki Page, Social Media in Education: Facebook: How to Use and Incorporate in Your Course?

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2016-10-19T00:18:04-06:00

There are many ways to use Facebook in your course. It can be used to share and communicate information to your students.

Use Facebook to create a group for your course.

The group can be used to post discussions, questions, create an announcement, events and use it as a calendar.

It is recommended to set up some ground rules for the group for student to know the expected behavior using the social media tool.

It is also wise to set up the privacy settings to make sure that the group will only allow students in each particular course/class.

Depending on what course you are teaching, the group can be tailored to your needs. The first video will walk you through the steps of creating a group. See above link for steps to create a group.

How to create a group on Facebook?

The next sets of videos will give testimonies on how teachers from different schools utilize Facebook for their classes.

Create a Facebook Group for English Courses:

Facebook Group for Anatomy and Physiology class

Students as well as educators from UK share their opinions about this issue.