Creating College-Going Culture Through Social Networking Websites at Your School
How can you use social networking websites to create college-going culture in your school?
-Create a Facebook group for your school and invite all of the peer leaders, educators and 12th graders to join. The group can act as a central hub on Facebook for your project and house links to resources, other initiatives on Facebook, pictures from school events, videos created, Twitter and Myspace, and a community forum for discussion. Events can be tied to the group such as the FAFSA deadline to help students stay on track.
-Create a twitter movement where a senior and 9th grader exchange twitter accounts and share motivation and tips to one another. Everyone tweets to share how their experience is going and creates a community of support. Important dates and reminders are also tweeted.
-Create a Twitter account that gives out an “SAT word of the day” and goes out to all students.
-Host a poster contest and scan the results on our Facebook group. The contest subject could be college-going.
-Participate in the College Summit video contest. Create a short video that shows how you’ve created college-going culture at your school and be eligible for a prize.
-Seniors can join the Senior Year calendar on Facebook and get reminders of important dates right on their profile.
-On Facebook, join the College Summit cause “ I’m going to college 2009-10”...top recruiters get a prize.
-Educators can create a blog where seniors can write posts that update everyone, especially 9th graders, on what’s happening at the school in terms of college-going, give motivation, share pictures and video, and share resources.
-Create “bumper stickers” for Facebook profiles that say things like “I got in!” “I completed my FAFSA” or “I’m a peer leader”.
-Post a status update when a senior gets into a college so that everyone can share in the excitement. You can do this on Twitter, Facebook or Myspace.
