This had some good information on grade-appropriate levels for tools

This page contains a link to a recent report called, "Youth Safety on a Living Internet". I didn't read through all the report, but there appeared to be a great deal of information about online safety for kids that pertained to social media.

While this blog post isn't "new", I thought it was relevant to our discussion with John Carver today.

This is titled a "Social Media Blog". I found some information here that looked interesting.

This is another social networking site for kids. It wasn't on the list for today and I thought I'd mention it as my daughter has been trying this out of late. What's a little different about it is how kids can add friends. Parents have control over who their child can add since its based off the parent's Facebook friends list.

Have any of you tried out diaspora? I just read about this open-source social network and it sounds pretty cool. Will it overtake Facebook? Probably not, but it will be real interesting to see what comes out of it.

Facebook has been in the news lately for privacy issues. I found the article above today and thought it raised a lot of good points.

Scott McCleod is an Iowa State professor and one whose blog postings I've enjoyed reading.

This is a tool used to foster group communication. I've used this quite a bit in past MEd classes. It's really easy to setup, but was a little lacking in some of the functionality last time I used it. It worked pretty well for keeping a group organized and fostering communication.

I can cover Wiggio. I've used it a few times and works pretty well for small group interactions.

I've seen virtual worlds used successfully in business and heard some interesting ways Second Life could be used in high school history type courses. This page had some good links to videos, etc.