1. Canadian Moodle Moot 2013
Vancouver, February 12 – 15, 2013
Integrating a Moodle Course into Facebook
Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Educational Technology & Moodle Evangelist
Dawson College – Montréal (QC)

2. Dawson College (Montréal)
Source: Bing Maps

3. Dawson College (Montréal)
Source: Bing Maps

4. Introduction
Pauline Fresco, an
Illustration and Design
teacher at Dawson College
started a pilot by integrating
Facebook into one of her
Moodle courses.
(Winter 2012)

5. Introduction
Presentation Drawing
(Winter 2012)
22 Students (3rd year)

6. Students don’t hangout in Moodle
Source: http://www.yorku.ca/abel/webinar

7. Source: http://school.moodlemoot.com.au/

8. But they hangout
in Facebook!
Source: http://blog.statuspeople.com/Posts/Article/V/Infographic_Facebook_Smashes_1_Billion_Users/52

9. Students hangout
in Facebook!

10. The Facebook deactivation agreement: dad to
pay daughter $200 to quit site for 5 months
Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/dad-pays-daughter-200-to-quit-facebook/

11. Introduction

12. Introduction

13. Introduction
Course Content (Files)
Professional FB Account
Forums
Answer Questions (text,
Assignments
video)
Quizzes
Promote Discussion
Reminders
Statistics

14. Survey: Sex
Female: 14 ..... 64%
Male: 08 ......36%

15. Survey: Age
64%
Age 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27
# (%) 5 5 4 2 2 1 2 1
(23%) (23%) (18%) (9%) (9%) (4.5%) (9%) (4.5%)

16. Survey: Do You Use Facebook?
Survey: Most Facebook users
have taken extended break
Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/02/05/faceboo
k-vacation-pew-survey/1893103/
YES: 18 ..... 82%
NO: 04 ......18%

17. Survey: If YES, Since When?
55%

18. Survey: How Often do You Access FB?
72%

19. Survey
59%

20. Survey

21. Survey

22. Survey

23. Survey

24. Survey

25. Survey

26. Survey

27. Survey
Yes: 14 ..... 64%
No: 08 ......36%

28. Feedback: How Facebook could be better used in Education
Be more aware of what’s going on and if ever you miss a
class it’s easy to catch up
One issue is that Facebook could cause distraction when
one wishes to concentrate on work.
The privacy is important, school or work should be
separated from personal life.
I feel as though Facebook can really become an
important educational tool, with many advantages.
I feel it's like bringing school into the afterschool and I'm
not excited with that.

29. Feedback: How Facebook could be better used in Education
They should create a teachers' equivalent of Facebook, like
a Teacherbook so teachers can share stuff and it'll mainly
be oriented towards teaching.
If teachers want more attentions and make her or his class
interesting and wants to make students focus in class, they
should create a Facebook Group and post things on there.
I don't agree with the fact of having my teacher in my
facebook friends. My use of facebook it's to share with my
friends only.

30. Feedback: How Facebook could be better used in Education
I don't mind of having a Facebook group of students on
Facebook. But having a teacher on my Facebook, it still
needs work to convince me.
The vast majority of students use Facebook primarily as a
social outlet rather then a professional tool.
Facebook is a social network, not a tool of education. The
only thing I don't agree with is the use of Facebook itself
as the tool for a class room forum.

31. Did you like the experience of having a
Facebook Group for this class?
Yes, because when the teacher posts something i would
get it on my phone.
It creates another safety net just in case we forget
something. Great for reminders.
It keeps the students up to date more easily
Helped if you missed out on an assignment or didn't write
down the instructions immediately. Also helpful for small
questions and suggestions instead of having the teacher
review come in a year later.

32. Did you like the experience of having a
Facebook Group for this class?
I like having the program group but that does not include
teachers and its fine like that. I think that class should be in
class. I find it way too invasive to receive my assignments
through Facebook.
Not really. Having to rely on social media was a turn off.
When I go to school, I expect to be told the assignments and
have hand outs - it helps keep me organized and in control.
Emails are fine, messaging is fine, but when I feel I've fallen
behind because everything is one Facebook or Moodle and
we have no hand outs, that's when I start to feel very
frustrated.

33. Academic Connect
Source: http://www.thelaf.com/news/when-moodle-met-facebook-1.2966447

34. Source: http://academicconnect.net/home

35. Questions

36. Contact Me
Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.
rscapin@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
@rscapin
slideshare.net/rscapin
DawsonITE Blog
http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca

37. uch !