{"id":69,"date":"2007-11-21T17:59:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.didactalab.de\/wp-main\/?p=69"},"modified":"2007-11-21T17:59:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:59:51","slug":"my-first-week-with-without-my-students-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/2007\/11\/21\/my-first-week-with-without-my-students-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"My first week with without my students on FaceBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a ride! I asked my (German) students, if they were adventurous enough to leave their beloved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studivz.de\">StudiVZ<\/a> system, a German FaceBook clone, to try out supporting a brick-and-mortar seminar &#8220;Open Content for Education&#8221; with FaceBook. Much to my surprise, they were accepting the challenge with no long discussion. I already had set up a course in the Courses app: <a href=\"http:\/\/coursesonfacebook.com\/courses\/show_course\/323618\">see for yourself<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We faced major stumbling blocks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FaceBook is missing a &#8220;student&#8221;\/&#8221;teacher&#8221; connection. I am not going to become &#8220;friend&#8221; of all of my students, but without being friends, they couldn&#8217;t find the course<\/li>\n<li>Even worse, people needed to be part of the same college to access the course, but the system randomly assigned people to &#8220;Uni. Bremen&#8221; and &#8220;University  of Bremen&#8221; and some couldn&#8217;t join the course<\/li>\n<li>The formating of the user contributed text in the Courses app is poor: no automatic link-activiating, no empty lines to put some air into the text etc. Looks like crap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The end result? We have abandoned the Courses app and are now using a plain vanilla Group: <a href=\"http:\/\/unibremen.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=5987948422\">Our new and great seminar group is just a click away<\/a>. Join us in our weekly struggle with using FaceBook to  support our seminar and learn about OpenContents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a ride! I asked my (German) students, if they were adventurous enough to leave their beloved StudiVZ system, a German FaceBook clone, to try out supporting a brick-and-mortar seminar &#8220;Open Content for Education&#8221; with FaceBook. Much to my surprise, they were accepting the challenge with no long discussion. I already had set up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/wolf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}