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OnlineProjects4Teachers is a social network on Ning

There's something for everyone on social media these days, and two websites - Sit or Squat and MizPee - prove that.

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative. Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared. As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.

Developing a guide to social media.

Social bookmarking site

The STRIDE handbook on e-learning has now been released and is an essential introductory resource. The book contains five conceptual overviews, including Perdagogical Affordances by Som Naidu and Managerial Perspectives by Tony Bates. Following are 20 technology-specific chapters, from Electronic Mail by Sanjaya Mishra, my own Blogs in Learning, Social Networking by Terry Anderson, and Twitter by Any Ramsden. Sanjaya Mishra, ed., Indira Gandhi National Open University, January 16, 2010.

Part 1 of 100 Web Tools to enhance Collaboration

Upload video to various websites using a "one stop" shop application.

U.K. based website focused on educating youth, parents, and teachers about being a responsible digital citizen. Digizen includes fantastic video resources, lessons plans, widgets for promoting your good digizen habits, and more. Would be a great place for a teacher to start talking about using the web responsibly, and includes resources for cyberbullying, cyber ethics, appropriateness online, social networking etiquette and more.

Create fake Facebook walls for fictional, historical, or any person you'd like. Useful for digital storytelling projects looking for a 21st century social media redux, or perhaps recounting complicated story arcs and/or historical events using status updates, wall comments, and other faux Facebook features.

"Simple. Social. Scheduling. The interactive event calendar and personal agenda builder for conferences and festivals. Publish your detailed session information, keep attendees up to date, increase networking opportunities and reduce operational burdens."

"Fully hosted and fully managed course management system with an integrated social network for K-12 and higher education"

Very nice infographic illustrating the use of socialmedia to screen job applicants.