Fake facebook profiles

The web site READ WRITE THINK states that their mission is to "provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials." The site is a wealth of resources-for Classroom Activities, Professional Development, Afterschool activities.

What I discovered while sorting through all of the resources is a free program called the Profile Publisher. Profile Publisher allows students to create and print mock-ups of social network profiles. Students can create profiles for themselves or for fictional characters. Profile Publisher includes fields for "about me," "blog posts," "interests," and all of the other profile fields typically found on a social network. Completed profiles can be printed-but not saved.

The Profile Publisher could also be used by history teachers to have students create profiles of historical characters, by English teachers to create profiles of book characters, by PE teachers to create profiles of athletes-past and present, by science teachers to create profiles of scientists... get the picture?

I created a profile for Harry Potter-You can find it here