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"A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing."

"There are a number of Facebook best practices for educators, particularly when it involves the safety of their students. Find them here."

Create a Fake Facebook Wall

Slide lets you use photos and other digital content to publish and discover the people and things that matter to you. With a super easy set-up, clean interface and multiple transition and theme options, Slide is among the most popular tools for self expression on the web today. Slide can be embedded onto any website, viewed on your desktop or shared with your friends or fans. Slide supports dozens of social networking and blog platforms, including MySpace, MySpace Blogs, Bebo, Blogger, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, livedoor, LiveJournal, Piczo, Sina.com, Sohu.com, Tagged, Typepad, Windows Live Spaces, Wretch, Yahoo! 360 and Xanga.

"He said support from parents was essential in tackling all forms of bullying, including cyber bullying using mobile phones or social networking websites such as Facebook. "There's a tendency for parents to outsource responsibility to schools, which I don't think is helpful," Dr Carr-Gregg told reporters. Families needed to consider drawing up internet use "contracts" outlining what was acceptable and unacceptable behaviour online, he said."

Create your own fake magazine Covers. Add your photo and text, choose your free fake magazine, Make Magazine Cover & use it on MySpace, Facebook and other social networks

A service of drop.io designed for recording voicemail directly to the web, and podcasting. In two clicks you get a custom phone line and record MP3s instantly to the web. You can then share via web (URL), email, iTunes, rss, twitter, and facebook 'outputs'.

a free photo service that lets you easily upload and add speech bubbles to your photos and share them with friends via email or on Facebook®, MySpace®, Orkut, blogs, and message boards.

"In August, the FCC clarified an earlier ruling that led to widespread blocking of social media networks by school districts receiving discounted internet access through federal e-Rate dollars."