FACEBOOK AS A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONBy Matthew Loving and Marilyn OchoaUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

summary by : Rustam Bin Samsul Francissca Tida Jeffy Alker

Facebook

Important channel by people nowadays

Well known popular site

“used as a bridge between universities library and its students to get connected. “

Matthew and Marilyn (2010)

Why Facebook?

Student and Facebook = Best friend

Enable to promote, organize, and improve access to collection

Good way to improve outreach to student

“Facebook on University Florida”

Facebook Group Page+Submit course work Informed about course deadlines

Allow communication between students and instructors

According to Mazer et al.’ (2007), Facebook enhance positive student outcomes.

Reduce gap communication between students and teachers

student and teacher can keep in touch with each other anytime

and anywhere

Challenges Facebook?

“Facebook Groups function have a weakest form of in communication and their classify term of Groups represent a simplistic expression of one idea or opinion and are typically only visited one time and then easily forgotten”by Miller and Jensen (2007)

Issues such as online privacy occur

“implementation virtual learning programmed could lead potential danger to physical health such as vision, back and neck problems.”by Magid and Margaret (1998)

“Problem out of control mechanism, distractions, being nested with entertainment and doubt for the accuracy of sharing information”

by Ahmet Naci Coklar (2012)

How to handle?

“Koerwer (2007) suggest that faculty and instructor must work together by being accessible to students via Facebook”

No unimportant updates Never approved strangers

enable the limited profile feature.(privacy issue)

“Implementation Facebook in University Florida”

WebCT, BlackBoard and Sakai

Change to

Facebook or MySpace

Popular among student, more variety functions

Why?

Accommodate discussions

Group emailsUpdate announcements

Online forum

Conclusion