[Year 12 IT Apps] School friendly social networking for a class activity

[Jackson Bates]

Hi Michael,

http://classtools.net/fb/home/page works well.

It doesn't have events, but it lets you do everything else to make a fake Facebook profile.

Some examples from my Year 11 English class last year: https://mrjbates.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/a-man-for-all-seasons-fakebooks/


Best regards,

Jackson Bates
Waverley Christian College
Coordinator of Learning Technologies
VCE English | VCE IT Applications
Finney for the Winney!

Blog: http://mrjbates.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jacksonbates



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Sorry for the cross-posting but I wanted to tap into as many minds as possible.



I received this request from an English teacher today and am looking for tips on how to approach it.



"I am planning for a year 9 Wider reading assignment and I thought you may be able to help me out. My idea was for the students to select a main character from their novel and create a 'facebook' style website or social media page however I am not sure what site or program to use. Obviously the site will need to be 'school safe'. This way they can create a profile , events, status, likes, friends etc pages to show their knowledge of the book that they have read in a mode to which they are familiar and confident."



My first thought is to create a web page template that the students could use but then thought I doubt I have the expertise to cover all the wanted aspects and it may have already have been done for me.

Are there any school friendly sites that would allow such an activity?

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