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Facebook. Flickr. Google+. Pinterest. Tumblr. Twitter. Yelp. The list of social networking sites is almost endless, bringing huge potential (and some headaches) to librarians nationwide. Will libraries continue to be able to keep up with the rapid- almost instantaneous-changes in technology and social networking? The consensus is: Yes.

Common Sense Education's recommended Social Networking sites for teachers - some are similar to 'real' social network sites ( like Edmodo which is modeled after Facebook) and some are totally their own thing.

NSF report on Cyberlearning

There's a quiet-or not so quiet-shift happening in school libraries across America. The social media revolution-reflected in all manner of shiny iPhone apps, blogs, Nings, Facebook pages, and other social networking tools, sites, and platforms-is real, and it's running like a loud line of students straight through the stacks, into the common areas, taking a sharp turn, and heading right on up to the teacher librarian/media specialist's desk.

Web-based learning has made learning content much more freely and instantaneously available to students who can download course notes and readings with a single mouse click. Facebook is one of many Web 2.0 tools - wikis, delicious, YouTube, podcasts - that are listed as having potential applications for teaching and learning.

Great resource for Librarians/Library Website!!! Organized by topic: Books/Audiobooks, Book Exchange-Buy & Sell, Class Management/Worksheets, Collaboration/Social Networking, Collete/Student Loans, Computers & Technology, Culture/Arts & Music, Dictionary/Thesaurus, Foreign Language, GPA Calculators, Graphs/Printables/Presentation, Highlighters/Web Annotation, History/Geography, Home Library, Kids/Young Adult, Lectures/Speeches/Podcasts, Mathematics/Calculators, Memorization, Notes/Writing, Online Learning, Open Source/OpenCourseWare, Organization/Brainstorming, Poetry/Quotes, Quizzes/Test Taking, Reference/Research, Sciences/Space, Video Tutorials

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Resources to help educate and prepare students in this ever-evolving area of communication.