Social networking for educational use

Digizen: Social Networking
Social network sites can be used for the following:

• Communicating with existing networks, making and developing friendships/contacts
• Represent themselves online, create and develop an online presence
• Viewing content/finding information
• Creating and customising profiles
• Authoring and uploading content
• Adding and sharing content
• Posting messages – public & private
• Collaborating with other people

Risks

Micro-blogging

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A Web service that allows users to post brief text updates or links to media such as photos.

Examples of micro-blogging services include Twitter (http://twitter.com/) and Plurk (http://www.plurk.com/) and the status update features of social networking sites such as Facebook (http://www.facebook.com).

An example of a Twitter page can be seen from the news channel CNN's breaking news microblog - http://twitter.com/cnnbrk.

Micro-blogging in education (BECTA)

50 ideas on using Twitter for education (blog entry)

Twitter in Plain English (video)

Introduction to Twitter (part of an Education Technology course)

Learn English on Twitter (from ESL About

Useful websites:
Ning
Facebook
Youth social network sites