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Social Networking Sites

Social networking school guidelines

Social Media Guidelines

Doug Johnson: Guidelines for teacher use of social networking sites

Aggregators for submitting simultaneously to different social networking sites

Traci Gardner: How to Stream Your Social Networking Sites

8hands: Submit to a range of different sites

Friendfeed: Submit to a range of different sites

Secondbrain : Submit to a range of different site

Monitoring traffic on different sites

Facebook

Facebook Applications for Learning: Add applications to for using Facebook in the classroom

Learning Technology Center, University of Manitoba: Facebook: uses in education

Facebook: Education uses

Supercool School: Facebook application for creating a classroom site

Best Practices for Educators Using Facebook

ABA Journal: Legal, First Amendment issues related to Facebook postings

Chris Greenhow: Research project: Use of Facebook to involve young people in civic participation

Hot Dish: Facebook site related to addressing global warming issues

Jeff Utecht: Taking Control of Your School's Profile: Places to Start: Using Facebook

Rory O'Connor: Facebook and Twitter are Reshaping Journalism as We Know It

Stephen Downes, Places to Go: Facebook, Innovate, 4(1), Fall, 2007

Elaine Childs, Using the Social Networking Site Facebook as a Teaching Tool, Kairos Webcourse tools wiki

CNN News: Online Teacher-Student Friendships Can be Tricky

MySpace

Video: Christine Greenhow: MySpace May be Just What Your Kids Need for a Good Education

Social networking sites frequently used for educational purposes

Ning sites

English Companion Ning

Examples of Class Nings

Education networks: Extensive list of school networks

Digital Youth Network

Digi Teen: Digital Citizenship for Teens

Traci Gardner, NCTE: The Ning's the Thing: Using Ning in the classroom

Social Networks in Education (many are Nings)

Students Speak Out: Minnesota

Educator networks created with Ning

Classroom 2.0: social networking site created with Ning on using Web 2.0 tools

Citizens Leagure: CitiZing!: students address civic issues

Roos evelt High School, Minneapolis, Ning

Other classroom social networking sites

Cindy Long, NEA: Online Social Networking for Educators

20 Social Networking Sites for Teachers

Drupal: Open-source platform for creating social-networking sites

Elgg: Open-source platform for creating social-networking sites

Elluminate: Learn Central: site for educators

Digital Youth Network

KidsWrite4Kids: For younger writers

EduSpaces: Social networking for technology educators

Youth Voices: Elgg site for writing teachers and students using digital writing

Dweeber: Students can share work and chat

University of Illinois: Youth Community Informatics Project

Directions for using Youth Voices

Space2Cre8: Research project on students social networking literacies

Muse: Connect with educators using Internet2

PBS: Teachers Connect

Pageflakes: Creating websites for social networking

Will Richardson, weblogg-ed, Using Pageflakes as a Student Portal

Schoopy: social network for schools

Webkinz: for younger students

Twittercamp: organize Twitter messages on one site

FictionPress: share responses to fiction writing

The Scriptorium: resources and tips for story writing

General social networking sites

Wikipedia: social networking sites

A Guide to Social Learning

Tutorial: Safe uses of Bebo

iBreadCrumbs: saves research search results to share with others

Similarr: meet people with similar interests

Globaloria: Global social networking and curriculum tools

Windows Live Spaces

Vivaty: virtual 3-D chat site

People Aggregator

Imeem: music community

Unspun: Share lists: requires Amazon subscription

Friends Reunited

Broadcaster: video sharing

Teen Second Life

Theory and Research on Use of Social Networking Sites

dana boyd, Social Media is Here to Stay...Now What? Presentation at Microsoft Tech Fest, 2009

Cybersociology: Theory and research sites on social networking

Vance Stevens: Engaging in Collaborative Writing through Social Networking

Liz Davis: 10 Tips for Growing Your Learning Network

dana boyd dissertation: Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics

Christine Greenhow, University of Minnesota: Video: Research on benefits of using social networking sites

Video: UC Berkeley conference: From MySpace to Hip-Hop: New Media in the Everyday Lives of Youth

Video: Stephen Downes: Groups versus Networks

Ruth Reynard: Social Networking: Learning Theory in Action

Mark Hendrickson, TechCrunch: Nine ways to build your own social Network

Richard MacManus, Read/Write Web: Pageflakes, Netvibes Take on Social Networks

Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media

Davis, M. (2008). Friend or foe: Balancing the good and bad of social networking sties. Digital Directions.

Moxley, J., & Meehan, A. (2007). Using Social Networking Tools to Engage Teachers in the Wisdom of Teaching, KAIROS, 12.1.

National School Board Association: 96% of students use social networking sites

Mitrano, T. (2007). A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies, EDUCAUSE Review, 41(6), 16–29

boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11

boyd, d. 2007. "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace ." Apophenia Blog Essay, June 24, 2007.

Grunwald Associates: analysis of kids social networking from an industry perspective

Advertising Age: Digital Fact Pack: rankings of sites and audience use

After breaking onto the scene a few years ago, social networking is flourishing. MySpace and Facebook continue to defy gravity, growing 72.5% and 59.2% (Feb. '07 vs. Feb. '06)

University of Minnesota: Tech Talk: video production: social networking

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