Nings+&+Social+Networking

media type="youtube" key="q6WVEFE-oZA" height="385" width="480" Personal Learning Networks for Educators by Skipvia

media type="custom" key="931289" [|Social Media in Plain Language]

media type="custom" key="3114596" [|Will Richardson on Personal Learning Networks]

[|Many PLN Paths Image by David Warlick]

[|Build a Social Networking Environment] (comparison by Jane Hart) [|Online Communities for Learning Professionals] [|Complete Facebook for Educators] [|Personal Learning Networks and Why You Should Have One] [|Stages of PLN Adoption](Jeff Utecht) [|Skype] (voice over Internet protocol) for long distance, conferencing, chatting, author events, etc.) [|FriendFeed] (aggregates your networks) [|20 Social Networking Sites for Teachers] [|Your PLN Made Easy] [|Community Tools: Video from Discovery Education] [|Five Reasons Why Educators Should Network] [|How 11 Intrepid Users Get the Most out of Social Media]

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 * [|SocialGo Build a social network]
 * [|Group.s]
 * [|Spruz]
 * [|Ning.com]
 * [|Classroom20Ning]
 * [|PBS and Classroom20Ning: Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students]
 * [|Quicktime version]
 * [|TeacherLibrarianNing]
 * [|21st Century Librarians]
 * [|English Companion]
 * [|Future of Education]
 * [|NCTE Conference Ning]
 * [|SLJ Summit Ning]
 * [|NLConnect (November Learning)]
 * [|VoiceThreadForEducatorsNing]
 * [|NECC Ning]
 * [|Youth Services Ning]
 * [|ArtSnacks]
 * WebTools4U2Use on Social Networking
 * [|Examples of Classroom Nings]
 * [|GlobalStudiesNing]


 * What is social bookmarking?** //Social bookmarking is a method for [|Internet] users to store, organize, search, and manage [|bookmarks] of web pages on the [|Internet] with the help of [|metadata].//

//In a social bookmarking system, users save links to [|web pages] that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain [|networks], or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.// //Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal [|tags] instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks. Many social bookmarking services provide [|web feeds] for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.//

//As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, [|web annotation], and groups or other [|social network] features//. ([|Wikipedia])
 * [|Diigo]
 * [|Diigo Educators' Upgrade]
 * [|Diigo Teacher-Librarians Group]
 * [|Del.icio.us]

Book-related social networking**
 * [|Google Books] ([|Joyce's Bookshelf)]
 * [|Shelfari]
 * [|GoodReads]
 * [|BigUniverse]
 * [|LibraryThing]
 * [|Children's Literature @ Library Thing]
 * [|LibraryThing for Libraries (add tags and recommendations to your OPAC)>>]
 * [|VuFind] (your OPAC meets 2.0)

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Using Flickr for sharing
 * [|Springfield Flickr Gallery]
 * [|Springfield Clipart]

[|Social Bookmarking in Plain English] Social Networking for Teachers Wiki Social Networking4Teachers [|Taggalaxy.de]