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My project involves students posting weekly updates to a class Facebook page. I wrote out the directions and a schedule for updates. The are required to post 3 photos and write a brief summary of what went on this week during pace. We reviewed it in class and everyone seemed on board. I set up the lesson by asking who had access to Facebook and all of the students immediately raised their hands and started talking to each other about their pages. The class is divided into 5 teams of 3. Each team is responsible to update Facebook once ever 5 weeks. The problem is that the students are not making the updates. I can not model what I want because we can not access Facebook through the school. Maybe I could print the pages and show them on the document camera? That may spark some interest.

I chose Facebook instead of wiki or blackboard for the students because I wanted it to be fun for them and easily accessible. Another one of my goals was to have the parents view the class' progress on the page. I gave the parents that came for conferences the name of the page so they could access it, but it is not happening.

Today in class I will go over the expectations again and see what happens. I never thought it would be so hard to motivate students to go on Facebook!