Facebook activity in the English class

Working Digital Competence and writing in the English class

Lesson Plan

Title "Find me on Facebook"

Subject & Level English, E.S.O.

Objectives: to develop Digital Competence skills described in Area 2: “Communication”, Competence 2.6 “Managing digital identity” (to create, adapt and manage one or multiple digital identities, to be able to protect one's e-reputation, to deal with the data that one produces through several accounts and applications) from The European Digital Competence Framework (DIGCOMP).

• To be aware of our online digital identity.
• To learn to monitor the information we produce.
• To learn to protect our digital reputation.
• To create a fictional Facebook profile
• To create a 10 points list of good and bad habits for online communications: “Do’s and don’ts in online communications”

Tasks

1. Preparation

Students, in pairs, decide on the character they are going to write about; historical, fictional...

Students enter Fakebook / ClassTools.net and create a profile.

• Cover: name and image
• About: date of birth, family info, jobs, studies...
• Blocks: friends, likes, photos, videos.... with images
• 5 Posts with images, links and videos if wanted
• Students save work, give it a password and copy the link given to their page.

2. Showcase

Students watch the profiles created and annotate what they think are:

• Good habits (in green Post-it)
• Bad habits (in red Post-it)

Students do this in relation to:

• safety (giving personal information)
• images / videos match communication purpose
• communications match different types of profiles

To do this teacher creates a virtual canvas with Linoit.

3. Debate

Students, with the help of teacher, find the good and bad habits to:

• Create an adequate digital footprint
• Indentify information that shouldn’t be shared online
• Identifying information given through images

4. Conclusion

Students agree on 5 things to do and 5 things to avoid when communicating online.

They put them together in a Linoit canvas under the title “Do’s and don’ts in online communications”

Sample image of a Facebook page created with ClassTools.net