My Fake Wall: A Teaching Tool

Facebook has over 800 million users.  Chances are you are one of them.  Many of those millions are children ages 13 and over (not to mention the ones who stretched the truth about their real age, and are younger).  

There's a way to use this knowledge of the most popular social media sites with your students.  
MyFakeWall.com is a site that allows you to create a fake wall for entertainment purposes.  


Here's how to use it with your students:

As a culminating activity when doing a study of a famous person in history or modern culture, your students could create a fake wall page for that person.  They can use exact dates and have the person's "friends" comment on posts.  This will undoubtedly test their true understanding of the life and events that occurred in their person's life.

What a way for students to use their creative juices and their knowledge of social media.  This would definitely be more fun than just writing a boring term paper on a person's life!


Have you ever used MyFakeWall.com?  If you have, share some of your students' posts!

Disclaimer:  This would be best used with students who are 13 years or older as Facebook.com isn't supposed to be allowed for children under 12. 

Alexis