Facebook Election

Michael was good enough to send me a site that might help enrich my telecollaboration project. I've already managed to use the internet through webpages (my own as well as several others) and blogging. Now I can have them use Facebook for something school-related!


Here's what he sent me:

Are your students more concerned with the latest news on Facebook than what’s going on in class?

What if you could merge classroom content with Facebook to teach your students in an like never before? To reach students in an unprecedented way, the National Constitution Center and Scholastic Inc. have partnered to create Exchange This ’08, the first and only Facebook application that allows students to voice their opinions and gather information about the important issues in the upcoming presidential election.

Exchange This ’08 provides summaries of the issues and then has students compare each issue to determine what issues are most important to students in this election season. Student’s votes will be collected and compiled to create the Student Agenda for the 2008 election, which will be shared with both presidential candidates this fall. Have your students add the Exchange This ’08 application by going to http://apps.facebook.com/exchangethis .

Exchange This ’08 is part of The Exchange: A Marketplace of Student Ideas, a national student program created by the National Constitution Center and held three times a year. On September 23, 2008, the election-themed series of Exchange programs will come to a close with Creating the Student Platform,
where students will deliberate the issues on the Student Agenda and create policy statements for each of the issues. If you would like more information about having your students take part in the Exchange, please visit http://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_TheExchange.aspx

I'll find a way to dovetail this into my project, since it is planned to last from the week after school starts straight through the election. Thanks again, Mike!