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Social networking at your fingertips! This site allows you to set up, create, and personalize your OWN social network. It's yours. Your brand and visual design. Your choice of public or private. Your very own members. Everything is created by YOU for YOU! Imagine the possibilities with Ning in Education!

I wondered what Ning was! Thanks!

Create and discover social networks for your interests. Connect with people that have the same ideas, beliefs, concerns etc. Create a page that centers around you. This could be used in education to connect to your students and incorporate technology into the classroom. This site could be used in multiple ways within your classroom and district. This would be a great way to connect with your students. I believe that allowing your students to chat on a site like Ning would make them more likely to participate in classroom discussion. Sites like these are the things that our students do everyday.

This site allows you to share the books you have read with others and let them know what you thought about it. It also lets you choose books you want to read and has the capability of letting others tell you what they thought about those books. It is a great social network for all kinds of readers.

Educational Social Networking Site- Similar to Facebook, but educationally based

As a social studies teacher this resource provides a constant flow of creative ideas. I utilize Google tools whenever possible in the classroom and this blog keeps me informed.

A great website for watching webinars and videos, reading blogs, communicating with other educators. Also, great for staying up to date on technology and what others are doing with it.

social networking site

Create a map of your favorite places, travels or destinations. Public, private, or community maps are available to make. I could see using this site in a variety of ways. It could be used as a beginning of the year "Get-to-know-you" activity. It could also be used to focus in on a specific geographical area in a Social Studies or Geography unit.

This website has great articles dealing with libraries and stories that keep you up to date on whats up and coming. It also is a great tool that has tips on social networking, and interesting literature-related videos.

Great blog with tips on how to use social networking to your advantage and to your LMC's advantage. Don't shy away from technology, just look at this blog to see tips and tricks that will make your LMC a great place for everyone involved.

This site has tons of information for those wanting to use blogs in the classroom. The blogs are geared specially for anyone in the field of education. You can find tips on how to manage your blogs and how to get students involved.

This is a cool platform for those who would like to experiment with classroom blogs. I liked it for my students because unlike other platforms like Blogger and Word Press, the students do not have to have an email account to sign in.

You may have seen this before, but I thought it would be worth it to look at the site again from the PD perspective.

This website provides short videos of 'teachers-in-action'. My personal favorite is China through Mapping, as you follow an Early Childhood Teacher through the steps of a class-created GIANT map, all while learning about China. \nThe entire site is filled with great videos that 'teach teachers' about great classroom ideas!

K-12 resources in arts, foreign languages, literature, language arts, math, science, and social studies. These resources can be accessed for FREE at Learner.org or can be purchased through the website.

Has lots of great resources across the curriculum both for teachers an for students, the vast majority can be view VoD directly from the website.

eSchool News is a website that shares technology news with educators.

A technology news website. Provides resources, videos, and webinars on technology in education. Current topics that I found interesting are: "Ten tips for using social media in communications" and "Empowering education with video".

A blog that lists web 2.0 tools (social networking, explanation of RSS, etc.). The author has additional resources listed on the page as well (Twitter, Facebook, Diigo, etc.)

A tutorial that was designed by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. One of the links is for the classroom; the other is specifically for librarians!

A tutorial that was designed by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. One of the links is for the classroom; the other is specifically for librarians!

This is great for Science or Social Studies! Great video, and can read ahead to what will be on the National geographic!! Great learning tool. It is really easy to access.

Elluminate goes beyond web conferencing with best-in-class web, audio, video, and social networking solutions that help you create a 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration environment

This is my site for all the web 2.0 tools I have learned about investigated and shared.

Great site for sharing your book reccommendations with students, parents, and colleagues. Kind of like Facebook for book worms.