Teaching English in the Digital Age
  • FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL LEARNING
  • WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE?
  • DIGITAL LITERACIES & WEB 2.0
    • Digital Literacies & Web 2.0
    • Explaining Social Media & Web 2.0
    • Videos to Start a Discussion
    • Gavin Dudeney: Digital Literacies (British Council)
    • The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
    • Renee Hobbs on Literacies
    • The Web in Our Lives
  • STUDENTS
    • Who We Teach
    • How Do We Prepare Kids...?
    • New Media Literacies
    • Kids and Digital Media
    • Schooling Today
    • Schooling Tomorrow: What's Possible?
  • READ
    • Crash Course English Literature
    • How to Create Non-Readers
    • Giving Voice to American Literature
    • The Vlog Brothers
    • Vlog Brothers: The Great Gatsby
    • Vlog Brothers: Catcher in the Rye
    • Use Web 2.0 to Teach The Outsiders
    • Poetry
  • WRITE
    • Write
    • Blogging
    • Digital StoryTelling
    • Podcasting
    • Portfolios
    • Publishing
    • Teaching Research
    • Infographics
    • Clive Thompson on The New Literacy
    • Digital IS (National Writing Project)
    • More Writing Resources
    • On Words
  • COLLABORATE
    • Wikis>
      • 10 Wiki Strategies for Educators
      • What a Teacher Learned....
    • Social Bookmarking>
      • More Social Bookmarking
      • Diigo for Social Bookmarking
  • ~Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which Is Right for Your Lesson?
  • GOOGLE! DOCS
  • What Could You Do With Google Docs?
  • All the Google Tools
  • TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS
    • Tools Tools Tools
    • Tool Anthologies
    • Information Curation: Store, Create, Share
  • SOCIAL NETWORKS
  • HOW TO DO MORE COOL TECHY STUFF
  • MEDIA & INFO LITERACY
    • Media & Info Literacy
    • Search and Research
    • URI Media Education Lab
    • Center for Media Literacy
    • Center for Social Media - American University
    • National Association for Media Literacy Education
    • 90+ Videos for Tech & Media Literacy
    • Digital Citizenship
  • RESOURCES FROM OTHER EDUCATORS
  • YOUR PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK
    • Your PLN
    • The English Companion Ning
    • NCTE
    • #engchat
    • Podcasts and Videos
  • WHAT SHOULD I READ?
  • About
  • VISUAL LITERACY

Building Learning Communities with Social Media


Schoology

Schoology - A Learning Management System (LMS) & social network
  • Schoology How-To(ish)
  • Our Schoology Pilot: One Teacher's Reflection
  • Top Three Ways I Use Schoology

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Screenshot of Schoology page

Edmodo

  • Edmodo: Social networking for education in a secure learning environment.
    • Edmodo: A Guide to Explain it All
    • A Guide to Using Edmodo
    • Edmodo: Ning for Kids!
    • Using Edmodo in the Classroom: 5 Days Later
    • From Classroom 2.0 LIVE: Edmodo An hour-long webinar/discussion with teachers & the founder of Edmodo.

Schoology or Edmodo? Discuss


Teachers discuss their experiences on Classroom 2.0 




More Build-Your-Own Social Network Options


  • GROU.PS - http://GROU.PS  GROU.PS is a do-it-yourself social networking platform that allows people to form interactive communities around a shared interest or affiliation.

  • Grouply - Create your own social media site; Used online; free
  • Webs.com - Create your own website; Used online; free
  • Weebly.com
  • A wide-ranging discussion of the pros and cons of websites for class use - EC Ning


Create a free website with Weebly Photo used under Creative Commons from Aaron Escobar ? (the spaniard)™