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Twitter is a social networking site. It can be very beneficial to educators if you follow colleagues and prominent figures in education. Twitter allows you to share articles and resources that are relevant to their interests and education. When you follow people who are in the education you can find lots of new valuable resources that are posted.

Dear Twitter Tweethearts! I have a twitter account and I love it! I follow celebrities mostly though just to get in on the good gossip. Just for this reason though, I don't think it should be used for schools. Perhaps at the collegiate level like I have done in some of my classes, but for high school or younger could possibly break out into bullying on the website towards a student and in some cases a teacher.

Twitter is a very popular social networking site that many businesses, celebrities, and peers use to interact with each other. I have often been told to use twitter in my classroom. However, I am hesitant about doing this. As Joe mentioned, I do not think I would want my students to get involved in twitter during school hours under my supervision. As with Facebook, I believe twitter has the potential to become more of a distraction than a positive. It could open up a window for cyber-bulling and gossiping. On the other hand, I can see that having a twitter account to keep in contact with parents could be beneficial.

This is an easy way for teachers to share and collaborate with students and teachers while using a social networking system.

I really enjoy edmodo. For a class last semester a group I was in created a "class" on edmodo just to get the feel of it. It really creates a nice environment for students to be a part of. It is inviting to them because of the social aspect, yet remains safer than other social networking sites could be.

Blog talks about how Social Networking is beneficial to students education.

Google+ is a social networking application that is relatively new and is gaining popularity. A major feature is circles. With circles Google+ allows the user to set friends into circles that have the same grouping such as Work & Teachers.

I am not sure if I would use this in a higher education environment. Students at that level use a lot of social networking already and I'm not sure this would be a benefit in the classroom.

Symbaloo is your personal online desktop. Create links to all of your favorite websites, blogs, news, and other Web 2.0 applications on a single page. This can be used to create and centralize your professional learning network or personal learning environment.

This is a cool idea, its simple and clean. This would be a great tool to use to make your PLN. I have done a PLN with google but I did not like it and have not used but I could see my self and students using Symbaloo. I also see this as a tool for student with special needs. If a student who has problem with fine motor skills typing or a mouse would be hard but if they had a touch screen tablet or computer they could set this up and have their favorite sits at the touch of their fingers.

Vimeo is a video sharing network where you can upload videos for any purpose, education being one of them.

Teachers who want to put web 2.0 technologies to work for them can find many different free options online. There are tools for creating online classrooms, social networks, student podcasts, web-based flashcards, elearning modules, and much more. Here are 10 free web 2.0 tools for teachers to try in the classroom this year.