Social+Networking

** _ Social Networking ** [|Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities] Social Networking For Teachers Wiki [|The SCHOOLS united] - Free ONLINE Networking for Schools!

**Recommended Reading for Social Networking and other Web 2.0 Applications:**
 * [|The World is Flat] by Thomas Friedman
 * [|Wikinomics] by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
 * [|A Whole New Mind] by [|Daniel Pink]
 * [|What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy] by James Paul Gee
 * [|The Underground History of American Education] by John Taylor Gatto
 * [|A Different Kind of Teacher By John Taylor Gatto] (a collection of essays and speeches, very easy to read)
 * [|Boys and Girls Learn Differently] By Michael Gurian
 * [|Blogs Wikis, Podcasts, and other powerful Web Tools for Classrooms] by Will Richardson
 * [|Don't Bother Me Mom--I'm Learning!] by Marc Prensky
 * We have a good list of books to shape vision on [|the SchoolComputing wiki]
 * [|Made to Stick] by Chip and Dan Heath - to get an idea about how to help other educators use the tools
 * [|Raw Materials for the Mind] by David F. Warlick
 * [|Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century] by David F. Warlick
 * [|Classroom Blogging] by David F. Warlick
 * [|Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age] by Suzie Boss & Jane Krauss
 * [|Teaching for Tomorrow] by Ted McCain

Some of MY favorite social networking sites:

 * [|Facebook]
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Ning]
 * [|Skype]
 * [|Flickr]
 * [|del.icio.us]
 * [|diigo]
 * [|Voicethread]
 * [|Edu Tagger]
 * [|The Schools United]

**When I saw the value of Social Networking:** media type="custom" key="4206493"