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Social networking is important for students' success. These ideas will help,

The Social Networking section of the 2013 State of America's Libraries Report from the American Library Association provides information about the use of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other Web 2.0 technologies in libraries including the increased use of gaming technology.

Given the harsh criticisms that social networks commonly face when it comes to their use by teenagers, I thought it would be useful to post this newspaper piece that presents the opposite argument: Social media might be usually considered to be just places of the lurking danger of real-life social isolation (among more gruesome dangers in this context), but they could also be seen as places where a teenager can be inventive, discover aptitudes and of course develop his/her social skills. Also, it discusses research which shows that teenagers are more often than not well aware of the dangers that lie behind the (ab)use of social media.

Hmmm, should I share this with my teenage son?

Good article, though I am still sceptical!

65% of adults now use social networking sites - a nearly tenfold jump in the past decade Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began systematically tracking social media usage in 2005.

These statistics are another reason why the use of social media and other technology tools should be incorporated somehow within education.

This is the summary that comes with the article. Social networking is a topic I have extensively covered here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. I am also preparing an ebook about it which I will publish here in the next coming weeks. Why next coming weeks and not this week ?

Social networking is a topic I have extensively covered here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. I am also preparing an ebook about it which I will publish here in the next coming weeks. Why next coming weeks and not this week ?

I could see using this in my College Success course. That class lends itself more to discussion in this forum.

Tips are geared toward K-12 grades, but some could be used for college classes.

Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry . They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter 's format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies.

Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry . They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter 's format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies.

Great resource with descriptions of the dangers of social networking use without guarding one's private information. It includes a list of suggestions for how to more safely be "social."

Author writes about some of the same reasons we're learning to use these tools in the online environment; however, the use of Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory as support for why these tools should be used is unusual.

Interesting study by The National School Boards Association. Sponsorship from Microsoft, Newscorp and Verizon makes me suspicious though.

This is a good introductory treatment of Social Constructivism, which sets the stage well for what social networking tools might be able to do for us in education.

Antisocial networks

Social network sites can be used for learning in Bloom's Taxonomy stages of: remembering when locating, 'liking', or recognizing; understanding when subscribing or tagging; and evaluating when justifying a decision, collaborating or networking via the site ( Churches, 2009).

Ways to use this popular social network in education.

Ways to use this popular social network in education.

Using social networking to support learning different learning styles

An interesting article about social networking and constructivist learning theory.

Article about social networks for language learning

This explains diigo's features.

Social Bookmarking is simply making bookmarks available to a social network. Rather than storing bookmarks on a local computer, the bookmarks are stored to a social bookmarking website. By default, the bookmarks are available for the network to view. Using a social bookmarking service instead of traditional bookmarking has a number of advantages: Bookmarks are available on any computer.

Ways to Use Diigo in the classroom!

This is a wiki that has fantastic content regarding social networking tools that can be used for educational purposes - hence the term 'Educational Networking'

Utube video about how students feel with social networking in university classes.

Report detailing the use of different types of social networking by nonprofit organizations.

NextSpace asked nine experts for their thoughts about our increasingly online lives. The challenge is how to apply social networking in a digital age to enhance and extend the public service mission of libraries, museums and archives.