Social Networks

Will Richardson [author of book: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms calls these “social content-sharing sites,” the most notable being MySpace.com, where members create profiles, network, and share opinions, photos, and audio-visual content. But there are about as many social networking sites as there are interests, and among favorites are Flickr.com, where photographs are posted and shared, and the video-sharing site YouTube.com. Discover how to organise online resources for yourself, your colleagues and your students - and save time!
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This past year, I was shooing students off of facebook during class time in the library but I have come to re-think this practice. One of our students in Grade 11 Shannon Mclachlan is using facebook to raise $10,000 to build a school in Kenya with her friends here at Clayton. Also, students use facebook to do group study sessions and to work on projects for school. Check out some of the sites on this post and think about how you could use them in your classroom. Teachers in this school are already using facebook to Science videos

Ning.com
Ning in Education
Using Ning for Educational Social Networks

Life Beyond Facebook: Alternative Global Social Networks
A wiki page I created with a group of educators about student online use and privacy.

Teacher Tube: social network for teachers of instructional videos.

Photo Source: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid