Department of Professional & Staff Development
Career Tech and Special Education
Social Networking in Education
Presented by: Barry S. Britt
This presentation will be published online at www.soundzabound.com.
Session Outline
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History
Obstacles
Reasons
Resources
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
Obstacles
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Internal Network
Administration
Parental
Self
Reasons
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Viable / Necessity
21st Century Skills / State Standards
Media Literacy
Student interest
Project sharing
Compete with U.K., India, China
Resources
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Classroom 2.0.com
Ning in Education.com
SchoolTube.com.com
Soundzabound.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQxFtQenrI&NR=1