Exploring the videos:

• Video: The Machine is Using Us
• Video: A Vision of Students Today
• Common Craft Tutorials on Social Tools

   

Exploring the applications:

• Some examples of social networking in practice

Exploring the conversations:

• The 2008 Horizon Report
• Pew Internet Studies, "Social Networking and Teens"
• National Center on Technology Innovation (2008). The Power of Social Media to Promote Assistive and Learning Technologies (NCTI Brief)
• Brown, J. S. (2000). Growing up digital.
• Brown, J. S. (2008). Minds on fire.
• Li, C. & Bernoff, J. (2008). Groundswell

Exploring the tools:

Social bookmarking:

•     Delicious

Video sharing:

•     YouTube
•     TeacherTube

Collaboration:

•     PB Wiki
•     Wikispaces
•     Wetpaint

Weblogs:

•    Edublogs
•    Blogspot
•    Wordpress

Social networks:

•     Facebook
•     Myspace
•     Ning
•     Linkedin
•     DoggySpace
•     Ning
•     Classroom20

Google Tools:

•    Google Docs
•    Google Reader

Condensing Tools:

•    Tiny URL
•    LinkBunch

Slide/ picture sharing:

•      Flickr
•      Slideshare

Live Notetaking

•      Google Notebook
•      Notesake 
•      Cover It Live

   

•     Second Life
•     The Croquet Consortium
•     Wee World

 Connection through following:

•    Twitter