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Social Networking Online
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Success: Quick victories and celebrate success! Online social networking Projects: The Monster Project Ann Write a description of a monster. Other students draw from the written description. Then the writers evaluate the drawing. Vicky CoolCat Teachers Flag project?
 * Allows students to think, craft and respond
 * Provides a meeting place
 * A place for users to put their things (pictures, video, text, sound) in one place and share them
 * A place to establish an identity
 * Seek out others with common interest and follow work of others as they build it out
 * Reengage family in educational process
 * Can extend what takes place in the classroom and leverage students' out of school time
 * Ends isolation
 * Opportunities for learning communities Should develop a learning community within classroom, then within school and finally across the world
 * Provides a wide audience to motivate students in raising the quality of their performance
 * Opportunities for social action
 * Self motivation evident Many student designed projects

Problems/Solutions This tool has opened up more opportunities for students to be victimized. Changes the scale of these opportunities to national exposure. The role of educators is to choose good social networking tools that provide a more controlled social network. Also need to teach students' appropriate etiquette and behavior for social networking.

We have to use and understand social networking in order to use it for instructional uses. We have to know how to navigate these online communities.

Best Practices

Tools
 * Ability for teachers to share ideas
 * Connect with others with similar interests and different interests
 * Invest time daily in a social network that continues to expand our understanding of teaching and learning
 * Open Professional Development
 * Social networking provides exposure to other cultures
 * Students can use online sources for college scholarships
 * Medieval Space: Create a "space" for famous historical figures What would appear on their space? What would be public, private, favorite song.
 * Latin Root Words: Choose a latin root, draw animal named that post on social website
 * Draw favorite idiom, post pod casts and these posts can induce
 * Taking it Global. org
 * think.com
 * Ning in Education