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Social Networking Using Web 2.0
Social networking is the connecting of students and teachers across the world to work together on projects. The two sites that are being explored today are Epals.com and Delicious.com. Both sites support collaboration, communication and social networking in their own way. Epals.com is an online community of schools, teachers, and students around the world. Teachers and students can collaborate on projects and upload their work. They can choose from an already uploaded project or upload their project to be shared with the community. The Delicious.com site is a bookmarking website. Here the user can save webpage book marks, images, videos, and sounds that they have found on the internet. These can then be used in various projects. A way that this site supports social networking is that users can leave feedback on your saved links and images.

Social Networking using epals
[|Overview of epals]

Social Networking using Delicious
[|Delicious.com Voki]

Links
[|epals.com]

[|delicious.com]

Activities list day 4
1. View overview video of epals. 2. Participants will then go create their epals accounts, and set them up for student use. 3.Secondly, the participants will then explore various posted collaborative projects within epals, and chose one to work on with students. 4. Next they will create and post one project to epals that fosters collaboration. 5. Next they will Listen to Voki on using Delicious.com 6. Find websites, images, videos, sound files, etc. to be book marked on delicious. 7. Explain how delicious.com can be useful in collaborative projects by maintaining all sound, video, image files, and websites in one central location for ease of use in finding and using. 8. Wrap up discussion of how social networking takes on a new role in the classroom.