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Interesting article on how the internet and social networking sites have the potential to discourage voter apathy.

Really interesting study about how technology can help treat social anxiety disorders.

privacy law needs an update in the post-Internet age--the government is monitoring social networking sites

Plagiarism extends to all sorts of online resources

Here's an interesting use of one's social network: Community + Loo = CLOO

this is interesting -- in face of challenge to achieve one-to-one computing, social media can offer solutions

Descriptions and salaries for "new" jobs that involve social media, software/curriculum development, and web-based technologies

Twitter and LinkedIn have partnered up so that "tweets" are now a part of LinkedIn, which is a social networking site for professionals.

"unfriend" has been chosen to be the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. unfriend = remove someone from your friend list on a social networking site.

This company has raised $7 million dollars in venture capital money to develop an online test prep web site that hopes to encourage students to spend time preparing for tests such as the SAT by eliminating deterrents such as scheduling conflicts and location issues and adding a social networking aspect.

Many of the schools with which I come in to contact- including mine- reinvent the wheel when it comes to acceptable use policy at great expense of time and often little influence of "best practice." Why not make use of the good work and attention that has been deliberated by other educators who have already wrestled through the problem.

Great article about students using backchannels in schools. It discusses successes such as shy students speaking up more and students viewing their peers as more intelligent.

I agree that it allows shy students an opportunity to participate in way that gives them time to think through a response or in a less intense way

Interesting platform for sharing lesson plans and networking for teachers.

"The few participants who did feel overwhelmed were often those with low Internet skills, who haven't yet mastered social media filters and navigating search engine results, Hargittai noted."

Ed platform that integrates social networking, content creation and real-time communications.

This is a natural progression for MOOC's. But I have to wonder, if the wave of the future is a MOOC higher education, then how will our young adults develop, socially? developmentally? psychologically? Will we create a society of socially incompetent adults who are not able to work intereactively, or in groups with co-workers, or lacking negotiation skills, or many of the 21st c. skills needed in many workplaces.