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Interesting classroom management software that is using the social networking model to make classroom commnications stronger. It is in Beta, so I encourage teachers to check it out to see if it adds anything to your classroom environment. 

Great twitter like site designed for schools and classrooms. Great for sharing research and backchannel conversations that have research breaks built into them because students and teachers can embed images, videos, and links for sharing. If a school is concerned about twitter and access, this would be a great classroom alternative. 

Nice tool for organizing your facebook feed to look like a newspaper. If you don't like the linear display used by facebook then this is a great tool. I wonder if Facebook will be buying this site in the near future. 

A member of the Content Literacy Ning Sean Nash started this group to connect biology teachers from all over together. I love one of the premises of the group: "Step one in participation within The Synapse: read & explore. Step two: share. Be a resource. Help to create a synapse that communicates in both directions!"

Another educational use for twitter. Create a poll, tweet your question, gather your data, explore the data. Could be a social studies tool, a psychology tool, an English tool, a math tool, or science tool. I guess if you analyze the data you receive all the questions would be a math tool.

Powerful thoughts about the direction of literacy and why we need to have students writing more and more on the web and not avoiding it!

An idea that can be used to contribute to professional learning or for use with your students- Create a collaborative book online. The topic in this case is another way to explore/discover uses for twitter in education. Learn to take advantage of the things students are doing, teach them how to do things responsibly online, share your content, etc.

Interesting site that brings students together to study and do homework. If your student population has access might be an interesting tool to throw out there for collaboration. 

Important to always think about how to create a safe learning environment. This post is a great analysis of several inputs. Worth reading and a great resource.

Great discussion about using Twitter in the classroom as a backchannel tool

Great set of tips for using Twitter more effectively. I really like #3, because it's all about interaction in my opinion. If working with teachers on backchannel conversations/routines, then these tips should help the teachers understand how to support the process more effectively. Thanks Clif for sharing!

In the ever emerging world of microblogging sites, edmodo is designed for use in classrooms or at least designed for use by teachers to keep students updated on assignments, sharing during backchannel discussions. A little cleaner looking than twitter and doesn't have the same clutter or posts that are not warranted. Probably still blocked in schools, but at least worth looking at if you are considering microblogging with your students for instructional purposes.