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A good list of ways Facebook can be used in the classroom.

Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class.

Facebook information for teachers and schools

Useful guide for using Facebook Groups v. Pages for educators

Many know how to acquire a video from Youtube. These are newly learned tips for acquiring videos from Facebook

Looking to connect with other educators? Now you can connect on Facebook. Join the group, Mr. Foxhole's Classroom. Just type "Mr. Foxhole's Classroom" in the search field at the top of your Facebook screen and join. It's as simple as that.

If you're using Facebook, you're giving the company a ton of information about yourself that it is selling to advertisers in one form or another.

Today's students live in an incredibly high tech world- from cell phones to Facebook to YouTube to iPods- K-12 schools are faced with a multitude of new challenges that must be addressed in your student handbook. How can you restructure your student handbook to include the potential issues that may arise as a result of students' increased use of these technologies? Join us for a live, 60-minute audio conference where you and your colleagues will learn:\n\n * Keys to Drafting K-12 Handbook Policies for Today's Students\n * Online Use Policies: Facebook, MySpace & Online Communities\n * Crafting Guidelines & Policies for Cell Phone & iPod Use at School\n * Protecting Your School from Liability: What You Need to Know\n * Cyberbullying & Technology Misconduct: What Educators Must Know

Great post about the potential for using the new Timeline feature (as of Dec 2011) in Facebook to help craft a positive digital footprint.

When principals hear the words Twitter and Facebook they cringe. Immediately, visions of excessive socialization, time wasted, and meaningless conversations in the form of updates come to mind. This is true, in many cases, when these tools are used for personal use. I am here to share ways in which principals can harness the power of these free resources to improve communications, public relations, professional growth, instruction, and create a brand presence for your school. Quite simply, social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have improved my effectiveness and efficiency as an educational leader.

SOCIAL networking sites like Facebook are affecting the grades of almost 80 per cent of school children, a recent survey shows.

A new startup social networking site focusing on teaching and learning.

Sophia hosts free online learning content in multimedia "packets" tied to MN K-12 standards. A blend of Facebook, Wikipedia, Atomic Learning, and Hippocampus.

Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook - focused solely on teaching and learning. It's where you can teach what you know and learn what you don't. Whether you're a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it's free.

Keep that status update to yourself. That's the advice teachers are being given as the education system grapples with the expanding use of social media by students. Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has been conducting workshops with high school teachers in Algoma in recent months after the Ontario College of Teachers issued an advisory that teachers should keep their distance from students when it comes to Facebook, Twitter and other electronic communication.

Good instruction for teachers looking to use Facebook Groups, including Chat, Docs, Events. Discusses the difference between Groups and Pages.

Facebook will be available from ANY phone, not just the smart ones!

The software is available at www.snaptu.com or d.facebook.com/install (Facebook for Every Phone).

Use microsoft office via facebook!