Activites+for+Social+Networking+Week

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=Students mentor staff with Facebook=

When

 * 26th November - 30th November 2007 with years 8-10 students.

Involve the community

 * Need to advertise this week for parents and the school community

Create a student team

 * Gather a group of students who are active and experienced with social networking. Ask them to be mentors for staff.
 * Some students may want to create a new user account specifically for this activity

Technical preparation

 * Need to unblock Facebook for this week

Staff supported to create user accounts

 * Staff create a user account in Facebook with student assistance.
 * Staff will naturally ask questions to do with the security of their information and privacy (who will be able to see what?)
 * Students can talk to staff about options for privacy when they create their profile - Who can see my profile? Can I have some people see just the basics? Can I prevent some people from seeing anything at all?
 * Discuss the pros and cons of using the 'Find Friends' tool - ie allowing a third party (Facebook) access to your email password. Suggest that this is not done.
 * Look at and adjust the '[|Privacy]' settings

Create links between staff and students

 * Staff and students create friendships via Facebook to experience this process
 * at the end of Facebook week we should make it a rule that we break all of these friendships
 * have a funeral for these connections at the end of the week
 * note Danah Boyd's comments about what our culture sees as acceptable vs asian cultures
 * How do we make sure that no staff member or student who wants to play misses out?
 * Staff and students join a school based group called something like 'SNW Facebook Week'

Activities for week
Students help teachers create a Facebook - NOTE: use school email address for this || Write on a friends wall Ask a question || Peter to send invitations to the SOCNET event, viewing of the video "Keeping Safe on the Internet". [|Link] || Evaluations by students and teachers involved Divorce day - divorce student-teacher friends made this week :-( Students write Newsletter article ||
 * **Day** || **Activities** ||
 * Monday || Meet with SOCNET students in lesson 2 to be on the same page with goals. Note students Facebook accounts
 * Tuesday || Help teachers make friends - send invitations and accept invitations from others ||
 * Wednesday || Send a message to a friend
 * Thursday || As for Wednesday
 * Friday || Video event