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__**Social Networking Sites -- Does Education have a place for them? **__

The following videos explain how teachers can turn a social networking site such as __**Facebook**__ to a learning and sharing experience for both teachers and students.

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Heather Wolpert-Gawron posted an article in May of 2010 in Edutopia entitled __Social Media in Education: The Power of Facebook__ discusses two ways that Facebook was used by teachers -- one was as a teaching tool for students and the other was an advocacy page created by a teacher who posted teacher's advocacy letters to Obama. The link can be found at [|http://www.edutopia.org/social-media-education-examples-facebook]

Edublogger recently posted an article located at the following link concerning Facebook in Education. Follow the link and read the information about Facebook in Education. []

In the following article there is information about __**How Schools Can Use Facebook to Build an Online Community**__ as well as some discussion about the necessity of protecting students when they are using these social networks. __[] __

Facebook for Education Activity Sites

The Department of Defense has an Activity Page for Education, you can find it located at [] [] and [] []

In addition to Facebook there are other social networking sites such as Twitter, RSS and Blogger that allow students to comment and learn from other's postings. The Blogs and Tweets often spark imaginative and inspirational comments to ideas posted by teachers or other authorities. In today's world virtually everyone has a Twitter or Blog site including news stations.

According to Webopedia, the definition of **Twitter** is -- A free social messaging tool that lets people stay connected through brief text message updates up to 140 characters in length. Twitter is based on you answering the question "What are you doing?" You then post thoughts, observations, and goings-on during the day. Your update is posted on your Twitter profile page through __[|SMS] __ text messaging, the Twitter Web site, instant messaging, RSS, e-mail, or through other social applications and sites, such as <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16.2px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">__Facebook__.

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