Frank and Brad from my ITRT team are so clever. While studying Generals from the Civil War, they decided that each General should have a facebook-like profile. Now you know that the students can seriously relate to this!!! Who would General Sherman’s friends be on a social network? How clever. Here is a screenshot of a blank project: Click here for template in Pages. I also exported from Pages into Word for my PC PLN members!!! Click here for template in Word
You could use this for any person you are studying, and if you think creatively, you could even write a profile for famous documents, elements from the periodic table, or a book character. WOW!
17 comments
McTeach says:
March 31, 2010 at 8:56 am (UTC -4)
I can’t tell you how perfect this is! I was thinking of having my seventh graders create a Facebook-style page for the main characters in their lit circle books, but wasn’t sure how to go about it. This will make it so much easier! Thank you!!
ktenkely says:
March 31, 2010 at 10:55 pm (UTC -4)
This is so cool! Thanks for the downloads, my mind is racing with possibilities for this.
Teacher grade 4 says:
April 1, 2010 at 4:14 am (UTC -4)
This will be perfect for our novel study. Thank you for putting it into Word format for us.
Nicholas Provenzano says:
April 5, 2010 at 11:33 am (UTC -4)
Isn’t this great! I had some students take the long way around and actually create email accounts for characters from Gatsby and show them to class. It was fun, but this is a ton easier.
mssanderson_ITS says:
April 10, 2010 at 7:20 am (UTC -4)
What a great hook!
Chelsy Hooper says:
May 12, 2010 at 11:35 pm (UTC -4)
Love it! thanks a million for the template, aim to show history teachers tomorrow
Lisa says:
May 13, 2010 at 6:55 am (UTC -4)
Fantastic resource!! Thank you for sharing. I hope you don’t mind that I add your post to my blog to share with other teachers.
Melissa says:
May 13, 2010 at 2:06 pm (UTC -4)
I have done a Myspace project with my students the last few years as a culminating project on the Ancient Romans. I was thinking about doing a Facebook version this year and you just made it possible! Thank you SO much for sharing!!!
leb 05/14/2010 - Liane Benedict says:
May 13, 2010 at 8:32 pm (UTC -4)
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eplybon says:
June 1, 2010 at 2:29 pm (UTC -4)
Thanks! I was looking for this very template for a lesson activity I’m creating on digital footprints!
Thomas Boito says:
June 5, 2010 at 10:01 am (UTC -4)
I converted it to Open Document format. Here is a link: http://www.divshare.com/download/11599249-955
earthspacequest says:
August 17, 2010 at 9:14 pm (UTC -4)
Oh my GOSH, that is brilliant!!
Jessica says:
August 17, 2010 at 9:41 pm (UTC -4)
Argh. I have a Mac w/o Word. Is there a way I can download this? Any chance it’s on Googledocs? Thanks for the inspiration. Maybe I’ll make one myself. It just won’t look this cool.
Michael says:
August 17, 2010 at 10:30 pm (UTC -4)
Loved the concept. Going to see how I can adapt it.
links for 2010-08-23 « doug – off the record says:
August 24, 2010 at 1:05 am (UTC -4)
[...] “Facebook” profile Template in Pages » Suzanne Whitlow-ITRT Frank and Brad from my ITRT team are so clever. While studying Generals from the Civil War, they decided that each General should have a facebook-like profile. Now you know that the students can seriously relate to this!!! Who would General Sherman’s friends be on a social network? How clever. Here is a screenshot of a blank project: Click here for template in Pages. I also exported from Pages into Word for my PC PLN members!!! Click here for template in Word (tags: profile template facebook pages whitlow 9thgrade “facebook”) [...]
Amy Lenord says:
November 29, 2011 at 4:36 pm (UTC -4)
Hi there! I was searching for a template like this in Spanish and never found one, so I adapted yours to suit my needs. I would love to send the Spanish version to you since the original is yours. Please email me and I will send it to you. Also, I am going to put a Creative Commons license on it in your name. Thanks for sharing this!
Valerie Lees says:
June 10, 2012 at 1:29 am (UTC -4)
Thanks for the updated resource links – about 5/6 years ago I did this assignment w/a paper template and Renaissance figures, so I will be glad to be able to do it online. I liked how the bio/profile info allowed students to share their research and their messages/conversations between their Ren figures and contemporaries allowed them to gt more creative and apply higher level thinking skills. I’ve also heard of something called Fakebook – but I haven’t looked it up yet. I think it is supposed to be a site for teachers to do the same type of assignment. I will try this again next year!