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Your school’s students are busy cyber-socializing; they’re chatting, blogging and posting pictures and videos. How can you and your school stay current with these new social networking applications? Better yet, how can you take advantage of these applications to interact with students in their own forum?
Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social – and Educational – Networking (2007) is a study conducted in cooperation with the National School Board Association.
The study contains information on:
- Student usage
- School and teacher involvement
- Expectations for educational use
- Recommendations for schools
