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"twiducate is the perfect solution for elementary and secondary students. Rather than having your students sign up and enter an email address, you sign up and create a class code." This site seems nice to use as well. Using this code, your students log in to your class network. Here, they can answer questions, collaborate on problems, and even embed pictures and videos. As a teacher you have full control over the network. You can even add other teachers!"

Here you can find really good advices to stay safe in your social networking connections. The advice for being prepared to answer questions about your social networking page or other social account in job interviews is a good one that I didn't realize before.

Just like many other people I have realized how Facebook has started to become obsolete among people recently. I have also doubts regarding its effectiveness for educational purposes, so I wanted to share this link that includes many alternative social networking platforms to Facebook. Through this link, you can also explore a number of interest-based social networks that are seen as the 'future of social networking'. After all, it depends on our own skills how to optimize those environments for our own academic or educational purposes. :)

A short yet well curated list of most commonly used educational social networking sites.

In the article, you may find some advantages of establishing a social networks for learning. Rather than being a passive user, experiencing professional learning community in social networks may be future trends so students should have capable of using social learning tools consciously and creatively .

Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics as some of us may be familiar with it.The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. I find it very useful to trace the research of my colleagues and get their opinions about my research. If you haven't tried it before, I strongly recommend it.

The world is online. In 2013, about 1.43 billion people worldwide are active in online communities and social networks compared to 46.6 million people in Germany. In particular, the mobile visits show a rapid growth: In Asia already 60% of the frequently visitors of online communities come from mobile devices, 46% in North-America and about 22% in Europe.

I find this infographic very useful because it shows the pattern of online community use in 2013 very clearly. I am not surprised to see that online communities are facilitated in the North America at most. Thanks Ahsen!

Since online networks and communities have opened new avenues for teacher professional development and connectedness, it is of paramount importance for us to explore the ways on how to make the best use of them. From my standpoint, it is not sufficient to introduce or sign up for them, we, at the same time, need to think how to maximize and optimize our experiences on such platforms. At the end of the day, we may find ourselves on the margins of such communities and networks only consuming or wandering aimlessly. :)

Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. It is a social network for those interested in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Participative Technologies in the classroom.

Briefly Social Networking

"Built from the ground up for social, Ning's platform gives you the tools and expertise you need to publish and connect with your community - all in one place."

I found that platform really cool :)

I've been using this platform since my undergrad years, and I really like its appealing interface. Try it!

This online social networking platform created by UC Irvine on which you can learn English free, use free online English lessons, chat, and find friends and penpals. Along with Livemocha, I strongly recommend this website to my students to interact with native speakers of English.

Oh, how come I forgot to mention Mendeley! Apart from being reference manager, it is a useful networking platform as well.

There are so many possibilities, as your attached website shows. I'll share here one article: Jari Multisilta is the director of Cicero Learning Network in University of Helsinki, Finland and professor of multimedia in Tampere University of Technology, Information Technology at Pori, Finland. The article I refer here concerns "a platform for mobile social media and video sharing" http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/yvt8503126927577/

Deniz. Thanks for sharing. I am also the member of http://www.classroom20.com/ which is created by Steve Hargadon as well.

A good summary of educational technology tools that teachers can use in and out their classes

thanks Hatice. there are many i have heard for the first time :)

Me too. It is difficult to catch innovations..:D

"The potential of social networking sites in education is huge and we need to capitalize on it to enhance our professional development and consequently improve the quality of our instruction. Searching for articles on this topic , I came across Doug Johnson's post on the 10 social media competencies for teachers. I like the competencies Doug included and decided to make an infographic featuring all of these skills. Have a look and share with your colleagues."