WHY USE SOCIAL MEDIA {facebook}

Facebook offers more divers learning opportunities and empowers our students (Yu, 2014).

They can join groups pertaining to their hobbies and likes as well as their educational goals. We can create class pages or groups for students to comment and collaborate their thinking and questions. 

Students are already using it!! They might as well use it for education as well.

Making the most of tools like Facebook will allow teachers more instructional time during class as they can explain assignments and other matters outside the classroom online using a tool such as a Facebook class page (Maloy, Verock, Edwards, & Woolf, 2014).

Maloy, R. W., Verock, R.-E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2014). Transformaing Learning with New Technologies. Massachusetts: Pearson Education Inc.

Yu, L.-T. (2014). A case study of using Facebook in an EFL English writing class: The perspective of a writing teacher. jaltcalljournal, 189-202.

You thought Facebook was just a place to post funny pictures of your brother?

Think again.

Facebook is a great place review course material (Yu, 2014).

Assignment #2
I've created a Facebook Group titled "Creative Writing for Teens", please ask to join the group and discuss the following question:

When is should backstory be used in my story?

Answer the question and comment on at least three of your classmates answers.

Yu, L.-T. (2014). A case study of using Facebook in an EFL English writing class: The perspective of a writing teacher. jaltcalljournal, 189-202.