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 * Social Networking for the Classroom **

How to Create a Facebook Group for Your Class An article from Free Technology for Teachers.

Social Capital: Many researchers see Facebook and other online social networking tools as a way to build social capital. For more information, see Wikipedia and other sites.

A short and very excellent guide for teachers who wish to use this social networking site personally, professionally or both.

[|Video: Social Networking in Plain English] Check out this CommonCraft video that helps explain social networking in everyday language that any non-techie can understand. "A Facebook Education" (Article from //Teacher Magazine)// Summary: Facebook helped one teacher see her students as individuals and realize how the learning in her class extended beyond the four walls of the classroom.

Quoted from Educause Connect: The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced //Horizon Report// describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The 2008 report focuses on the following topics;
 * Grassroots Video
 * Collaboration Webs
 * Mobile Broadband
 * Data Mashups
 * Collective Intelligence
 * Social Operating Systems

From the Becta Research Report, March 2008: Diana Oblinger explores the 'net generation' who can seamlessly move between their real and digital lives. Their behaviours, preferences and expectations may be very different from those of their teachers. Diana examines the characteristics of these learners, the possibilities offered by new technologies and the skills that an education system needs to provide for the 21st century. She also argues that we need to adapt to this rapidly evolving context and goes on to explore the implications for learning space design, assessment and learning and teaching.

[|The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps That Are Perfect for Online Education] Quoted from CollegeDegree.Com blog by Susan Jacobs: With so many students, teachers, and librarians on Facebook these days, the social media site has become somewhat of a platform, offering developers a way to create and share applications for education. This, of course, is great news for online education, as it provides all sorts of great tools designed to make learning and administration easier. Check out these applications that represent some of the ideal tools Facebook has to offer for online education.

If Facebook were a country it would be the fourth largest in the world. What kind of dramatic social change is being brought about by so much influence centralized in one technology company?

This article delineates how open education resources in combination with social networking tools such as wikis, blogs, Facebook and MySpace allows for a great variety of peer-to-peer learning, often without adding any expense to a school budget.

[|Ning] Create your own social networking site for your students and colleagues.

[|uSync] This is a new platform that combines social networking and project-based learning for middle and high school students. Helps students and teachers create 21st century learning environments and meets ISTE standards.