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Facebook video:  Facebook for educators.  Great 8 minute video introducing FB to educators and showing important tips and best practices.  Easy view. Available from within FB.

This is a great video! Although facebook is blocked at our schools, among other amazing web resources, students can still access material from home. I'm thinking that if a teacher creates enough buzz about a class facebook, students will get involved with it at home. Teachers can even give participation points for students who post. This brings up a question of equity. .. What about students who don't have computers or internet access at home? My answer to that is for students to network with family and friends, and find someone who will let them use the internet. Many public libraries have internet access. Of course this is coming from a high school teacher point of view. Love the video! But I still need to get familiar with all of the settings and privacy controls on there before I use it in class. :)

Facebook group "Educators Using Facebook".  Note: Most helpful bits are under Discussion threads. 

Creating a fake Facebook profile for a character in a book or of a famous person in history on Facebook.com is a violation of Facebook's terms of service. However, there are some ways to create fake Facebook profiles without using Facebook.com.

List of educational Facebook applications.

100 examples of HOW to use Facebook with students - both teacher/student interaction and subject specific examples.

This is the exact thing I need for just that reason, Lori. I got into a "debate" over this at work last week. I am SO forwarding this one to the Director of IT ;)

Ive heard of teachers using facebook as a way to teach students how to write biographies. They start by choosing a historical figure then creating a facebook page as if they were that figure. Then they use that as an outline for their writing. cool.

Very practical tips for classroom Facebook use.

One teacher's experience using Facebook and Twitter in the classroom.

Great ideas for Facebook and Twitter. However, these two resources are on a lengthy list of things blocked and banned by my district. A continual frustration for me as a teacher is how often decisions are made based on fear, not on policy. The district isn't afraid of the resource, they are afraid of the parent phone call.

Article by teacher using Facebook as a way to manage assignments, network with students, and learn a little more about who his students are. 

PDF of presentation on Using Facebook for teaching and learning

I found this useful in that I could see building on it as I presented how WE would use social media in OUR classroom when presenting to my students. It also made me hungry for different sources on the subject such as guidelines and theory. Off to search ...

Middle School teacher experience and tips for using Facebook in the classroom.

Facebook profiles for literary/historical figures.

robust animation browser-based program.  Can create characters, sets, animate and add own images and sound tracks (up to 4 tracks). Easily embed in websites, Facebook, Twitter.

This is one of my favorite Facebook pages. It was created by a tutoring center in Southern CA. They post challenge questions and Math cartoons.

Backward Thinking or just smart parenting?