I found an interesting tech tool that I am currently using with my 6th grade math class. Although my 6th grade students usually write a short 2 page report on an assigned mathematician, this year I have added a new component to this assignment. I have found three different ways to create fake Facebook-like profiles.
My FakeWall allows you to upload images, write wall posts, even create ‘likes’ and comments. You do need to register and unfortunately because it is still in beta, there were many times it crashed as I was experimenting.
Derrick Waddell has created a template for historical figures that you might prefer to use. This is available through the Google Docs public template gallery. This template has a place for pictures, a friends column, an ‘about me’ section, and even a map to plot the travels of historical figures. You may want to check his template out at the above link.
In addition, he has created a tutorial to help use his template.
With the help of Classtools Fakebook , a free site, my students are creating facebook-like pages for their individual mathematicians. Fakebook actually will search the Internet for the photo to upload. It allows students to save their work and edit it later.
While these fake Facebook-like sites do not allow others to respond like Facebook, my students have been gathering information so that they themselves can generate the “friends” and create posts. Creating a fake Facebook profile hopefully will be a fun way for my students to organize information that they have discovered about their mathematicians. We are scheduling the computer laptop carts so students will input information together and I will keep you posted with how this new twist (to our mathematician reports) turns out!!
I can visualize this being used for historical figures as well as creating profiles for characters in novels.
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