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Blackboard + Facebook

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An introduction to the Blackboard Sync application in Facebook prepared for the Metropolitan Community College faculty convocation, February 2009.

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Blackboard +

Facebook

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do you know Blackboard?

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do you:teach online?teach a hybrid course?post materials in Blackboard?

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at MCCevery student and instructor has a Blackboard accountevery course has a ‘shell’

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Photo credit: Abby Ernst

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do you know Facebook?

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Photo credit: Sarah Joos

there are morethere are morethan 175 million than 175 million active usersactive users

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Photo credit: Martin Billings

the average user the average user has 120 friends has 120 friends on the siteon the site

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Photo credit: M Maripepa

……and each day they and each day they spend more than spend more than

three billion three billion minutes on Facebook minutes on Facebook

(worldwide)

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Photo credit: Gozde Otman

the largest the largest demographic demographic concentration remains concentration remains the traditional college the traditional college demographic of 18-24 demographic of 18-24 year olds (40.8%)year olds (40.8%)

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Photo credit: Patrick Moore

the 35-54 year old the 35-54 year old demographic is demographic is growing fastest, with growing fastest, with a 276.4% growth rate a 276.4% growth rate (since June ’08)(since June ’08)

the 55+ demographic the 55+ demographic is not is not far behind with a far behind with a 194.3% 194.3% growth rate over the growth rate over the same same periodperiod

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which can lead to a situation like this-

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it’s a verb - really

www.urbandictionary.comhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/

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lots of college students - of all ages -are spending

lots of time on Facebook

can Facebook help them keep up with their

course work?

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Blackboard Syncall information from the website

wiki.blackboardsync.com

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a collaboration of Facebook and Blackboard

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safe and secure

delivers course information and updates

option to connect through Facebook

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safe and secure

graphic from the Blackboard Sync webinar

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what information syncs?

announcementsnew discussion posts noticenew course content noticenew grades notice

course rostercourse map

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NOT THE ACTUAL POSTS, CONTENT, or GRADES

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how do you set it up?

you need:MCC Blackboard accountFacebook account

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installing the Blackboard Sync application in Facebook

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http://bboard.mcckc.edu

http://bboard.mcckc.edu

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enter your MCC Blackboard user nameand password

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SUCCESS!

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tabs display updated information

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announcements

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forums

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content

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grades

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course map

goes to the login page NOT to the course

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course roster

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Images and graphics from Stock.xchng - http://www.sxc.hu/home

Blackboard Sync - http://www.blackboardsync.com

Facebook Usage Statistics fromFacebook - http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

iStrategy Labs - http://www.istrategylabs.com/