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 * 9/28 Workshop Topic: Social Networking for Educators Homework Due 10/8/11 **


 * Just as everyone has their own way of interacting socially within the “real world”, we can simultaneously construct ways of interacting with people in cyberspace. Since social media networking can take on many shapes and sizes from collaborative bookmarks (Delicious, Furl, and NewzCrawler), to social news networks (POPURLS and Digg), to web-based collaborative social networks (Facebook and Twitter) to content driven communities (Wikipedia), there’s an ever-expanding toolbox of social networking tools available to teachers through the power of the Internet. **


 * In this part of your digital presence, you will tour three-five social networking sites on the Internet (See the handout section of the wikispace for examples you can tour). You should complete your tool investigation by 10/5 . Once you have toured those networks, you’ll **** adopt one social network to test-drive in the context of your teaching environment. After you have explored both the process of using the tool for about a week or two, please write a review of that tool and feature the review inside your digital portal . If your digital portal is student centered, write the review with your students in mind. If your portal is colleague centered, write the review with your fellow colleagues in mind. Your Social Networking for Educators Review should be added to your portal by 11/19.  **

Here are some of the featured ** Social Networking ** **tools** you may want to explore as part of your homework assignment. (see also the handout section of the wikispace):

Classroom 2.0 [] This site mirrors a collaborative teacher’s workroom. You’ll find lots of resources here including teacher forums, webinars, and the ability to design your own resource page.

Technology Integration Into Schools: A feast for the media hungry! **Tons to explore!** [|http://www.technologyintegrationineducation.com]

Edudemic: The layout of this clearing house for teachers is **visually** appealing. Check out the Ultimate Guides for educators! [| http://edudemic.com/]

POPURLS: A fantastic news aggregator//!// //Satisfy your daily news diet here!// []

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