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Department of Professional & Staff DevelopmentCareer Tech and Special Education
Social Networking in Education
Presented by: Barry S. Britt
This presentation will be published online at www.soundzabound.com.
• History• Obstacles• Reasons• Resources
Session Outline
A Review of Corporate
• Created by Chris DeWolf and Tom Anderson• Began as SiteGeist, a community web site• Initially catered to local actors, musicians and artists
in Southern California• Local bands (particularly Indie rock bands) created
profiles and quickly became MySpace’s primary marketing tool
• Eight months after its initial launch, MySpace experienced the “network effect,” an exponential growth of people adding “friends”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yWpnto-hqQ&feature=related
• Founded by Mark Zuckerberg while at Harvard• Named for facebooks used in some colleges to get
acquainted• Originally called thefacebook.com• A hobby project became a Harvard, Stanford and Yale
phenomenon within months, in high schools the following year, available to general internet public (13+) the following year
• Renamed FaceBook in 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cEySyEnxvU
• Founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim
• First registered domain name, then developed site in a garage
• "Broadcast Yourself”• Business model is based on traditional banner
advertising, sponsorships, partnerships and promotions
• Generated early interest with a contest to win an iPod Nano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQxFtQenrI&NR=1
Quirky surprising innovative
competitive visionary
• Internal Network• Administration• Parental• Self
Obstacles
• Viable / Necessity• 21st Century Skills / State Standards• Media Literacy• Student interest• Project sharing• Compete with U.K., India, China
Reasons
• Classroom 2.0.com• Ning in Education.com• SchoolTube.com.com• Soundzabound.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQxFtQenrI&NR=1
Resources