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Interesting blog of use of Edumoto and social networking with urban 6th graders.

Article from 'the Journal' in decline of social networking sites as social apps develop; very interesting reading.

Safe social networking sites for children.

social media safety tips--more for adults, though appropriate for middle and high school students.

Social Networking is everywhere, with facebook particularly popular. Her's a great gide for teachers.

Free social network radio talk show. Can have up to 5 guests on radio show, which can be streamed. This has lots of potential for educators!

Want to see the impact of social networking? View this Fora.tv web 2.0 summit--when comcast met twitter.

Recommendations for back channeling (networking computers for real-time online conversations while presentation/video is happening). Interesting possibilities. Twitter and more.

Educational resources and lessons--network with other educators. Looks interesting.

I very much like Edmodo--free, of course. Here are some suggestions of ways to use Edmodo.

Edumodo has lots of potential for teachers and students; you can control who is part of the group and you can monitor, two important considerations with social media and students.

It's an iPad program for teachers and students. If a school has a iPad cart, the iPads are distributed to a class of students and then the teacher uses his/her iPad to push PPt's, movies, documents to the students individual iPads. It's very interactive and the teacher can wait for students to respond on their iPads (questions, drawings, quizzes, etc.) before going forward with the lesson. The teacher obtains a roster of students participating and see how each is doing with the lesson tasks.

Certificate in safe social newtorking...good if you teach children ages 7-11.

Twiducate--ah, finally a use for Twitter. See potential her for middle school and high school. Could also communicate with parents.

I am going to try to figure out how to do this over break!

Publish students books using pdfs and they flip online. FREE!

Grockit is an online social learning community--good for test preparation for SAT, ACT, GRE etc. Of course, they are trying to get you to purchase theiri online test preparation program. Might be helpful to persons working with secondary learners.

Great idea for incorporating students from your classroom within goodle earth--e.g, your students could tour a particular area and report out--great culminaton.

The kids-version of Facebook-at least that's what they are telling me. I need help with this one! I would like to add all of my students easily...guess I need to watch the video.