education is the best: facebook

Social Media is a great way to connect, share, learn and communicate with other educators and with students and parents. Teachers can hold online study sessions, discussions, post assignments and resources, and communicate with students and parents about class issues and information. Schools can use social media to connect with parents and the community and communicate with staff and students.

Facebook is one social network that schools and teachers use with their students, when it isn't blocked by the school filtering software! Our school district has a Facebook page, but blocks Facebook on the school network.

There are a lot of great ways to use Facebook in the classroom and here are 100 Ways Teachers Can Use Facebook in the Classroom. There are some great ideas here.

Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and now So.cl. Microsoft has quietly launched a new social network, So.cl, pronounced "social" that was originally an academic resource for students. It is now available to everyone through either a Facebook or Windows Live account. With So.cl, you can aggregate multimedia content into one post to share with others. You can re-share and comment on posts, and there is also a video chat feature.

I'm curious to see how this does considering Twitter and Facebook seem to rule the social networking space, with Google+ doing good, but not great yet.

I wanted to try it out myself, but after trying to sign in with Facebook, I got a message saying that I am on a waiting list. We'll see if So.cl survives or not soon.

It could be useful as another way to connect and share with others without all of the "noise" the more popular networks have.

Microsoft So.cl http://www.so.cl/

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