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Benefit of Visual Facebook in education.

Personalized Learning from Facebook engineers and Zuckerberg.

Social media, which has become an essential for kids and techno-savvy adults, is now entering the realm of public education as well. Schools and districts across the country are leaping aboard the Facebook bandwagon, creating pages that allow students and staff to interact during and after school hours.

Good fake Facebook platform for creating or reading about historical and literary figures. Good source for digital storytelling.

Great article on the use of Instagram at UCLA, great way to branch out away from Facebook or Twitter.

Technology based charter school using facebook

A multitude of teaching resources in all subject areas, as well as classroom management and other supplemental materials teachers can use. Makes posts daily and even has discussions between followers of the page on various topics dealing with teaching.

Includes links to Instagram and Pinterest accounts of other educators. Lots of "freebies" on this page.

Looking for a way to incorporate Facebook into the classroom but can't because of your filter? This website offers a way for students to create their own Facebook accounts not for themselves, but for historical figures. Take a look at some of the pages created for Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and many others! Students can browse or create their own! What a great way to get their imaginations going on an historical topic!

Grab all or part of a web page or upload a file--text or image--select various sections, make comments, and share with colleagues through Twitter or Facebook. Very easy to use.

Nice article that reminded me that I can't always force students to use the social media I want them to use, I have to learn about what they are using.

A great resource for teachers, parents and students via Shelly Terrell @ Ed Tech Crew on Diigo. Check out "Clean-up Your Digital Footprint" on the right sidebar, and "Facebook for Educators and Community Leaders" handbook in the blog section.

I have to admit that this is one of my favorite social media sites for teaching resources.

Transform your doc, pdf, word, movie in an interactive flipbook. It's very easy: upload your file and you will receive an email with the url to your creation. You can share this with your friend, family... by email, on your blog, on facebook or twitter It's free and without inscription!

Really good site $39.00 a year students can go the the site put in your name and they have your website. EASY!

My students love using facebook and this allows you to create a fakebook! You could use it for character analysis!

Tapestry helps seniors and their families stay connected. Tapestry is designed to be easy to use by anyone, no matter how familiar they are with technology.

Seminole County School leaders plan to waive the use of the Florida Standards Assessments test for students next year, and instead will be using other nationally valid tests, such as the PSAT and SAT.

Countdown to Your First Year: Making Planning Manageable (Teaching Channel, 2014)Need help figuring out where to start with planning the content for your first year of teaching? Lily Jones gets right to the point with general questions to consider and a few go-to resources for first-year curriculum planning.