This site shows how teachers at a UK school for ages 16-18 to use social networking sites for teaching/learning.

TES is a UK social networking site that allows teachers to network and share teaching and lesson planning resources. 

Teacher learning communities

What is an online learning community? A paper by Greg Shultz & Alex Cuthbert, which explains the concepts and provides example.

What is Collaborative writing?

Software for group writing - Google Docs

Online teaching resources

Food and Cooking

Sports

Teachers and technology: the resource scrapbook

Resources in subject areas

Some of the popular social networking sites:

del.icio.us - A social bookmarking tool for sharing, storing and exploring links to websites. This tool allows users to store links on the Internet rather than on a personal computer, thus making them available on any computer.

Facebook - An online directory that connects people through social networks at schools and colleges.

Flickr - A photo management and sharing application that allows you to store, search, sort and share photos.  Groups can also use it to share photos of activities.

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