Social+Networking



[|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! Source: http://judyoconnell.wordpress.com/

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 our school. 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 post Science videos and to promote reading. [|Ning.com] [|Ning in Education] Teachers are using Ning to create closed Educational Social Networks for their classes.

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.

[|Wikispaces for Teachers] provides a free wikispace to teachers and one of our English teachers is using a closed wiki(only available online to her students who are members) to blog about their reactions to the novel [|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.]

Check out the sage words of Jaime McKenzie about Social Networking. The cartoon above is from his site fno.org

Beyond Mere Gathering: Converting Social Networking into Collaboration and Synergy
By Jamie McKenzie, [|©2008] http://fno.org/sum08/synergy.html