Social Networking
Children Flock to Social Networks | BBC
Advice to Parents: Give your kids their (My) Space | ABC
Presentation
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Websites:
The two most popular social networking sites for North American teens:
A Look at Social Networking beyond MySpace and Facebook
Social Networking for Young Students
AARP Launches their own social networking site
Cars can even network | Dash GPS
People can network even in Virtual Worlds such as Second Life.
What is an avatar?
Myrl: a social networking site for your avatars, or a Web site that connects different virtual worlds together via your avatar.
Professional Networking with LinkedIn.
An example of a blogger (Vicki Davis, Georgia) with a side-bar "widget" that contains all of her networks.
The future of social networking with the Apple iPhone.
These tools give everyone the capacity to participate, to connect and to create.
Wikipedia entry for Glenbrook South
What does this mean for education?
Zinch, social networking for admissions officers and students
Glow, the intranet of Scotland, a network for students and teachers
Web 2.0 Tools give us this capacity
See the tools of Web 2.0
Blogs are the poster child for Web 2.0
See education blogs
View del.icio.us | store your favorite Web sites online
View Flickr.com | the world's largest photosharing site, with over 2.4 billion images.
View YouTube.com | View SchoolTube | View TeacherTube | View DNATube
Skype | talk to another skype user, through your computer, anywhere in the world, for free.
uStream | your own streaming video station in about 4 minutes
Quotes at the end:
"The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking...these skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom."
Digital Media Literacy