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= The Loyola Pros : Social Networking Enhances Positive Relationships =

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Hi Rachel and Linda! For some reason, I had trouble making this page private. At this point it can be accessed by others that make a search for it.

Use real examples

*Got the privacy thing figured out, I think. 3-27-11

I've got to start on my paper, but here is a link to a pros/cons page for social networking. This looks like a pretty good start, but I don't have time right now to read it, but will get to it soon. []

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This video explains how texting improves positive relationships with parents, this could be a great starting point: []

Articles I found: If the student video-collaboration statistics from Texas' Region 12 are any indication, districts are already deep into an exploration of the potential of videoconferencing. Video interactions have grown significantly in the past three years, from a single project with 20 classrooms participating in the 2003-2004 school year to more than 500 connections among numerous projects serving 15,000 students during the 2006-2007 school year. And yet this is the infancy of videoconferencing in K-12. Educators in tech-savvy districts with the right resources are using the technology mostly for project collaboration. But as the technology proliferates and evolves--probably outside the classroom, Shuck says--videoconferencing is all but destined to emerge in a genuine social networking context. A case in point: Paltalk, an internet chat service that is taking the bold step of offering a truly video-based social networking site. "It takes social networking to the next obvious level," Paltalk President Joel Smernoff told CNet.com last year. "Not just photos and video, but being able to chat live and reach out in a more personal way." Paltalk is probably the first company to introduce voice/audio components to instant messaging. The site employs patented speech, conferencing, and VoIP to create multichannel chat rooms that support thousands of users at once. Paltalk currently claims more than 4 million users in the world's largest interactive video community, dubbed PaltalkScene. The service allows users to watch and interact with online video programming, including serialized shows, live events, and user-generated content, as well as interact with each other through real-time voice, text, and video chat. Jessie (a high school librarian) realizes that she needs to teach social skills before her students begin working because these skills facilitate successful interactions among people. According to Burke (2008). "teaching these skills will ensure that conflicts are minimized or do not occur."

Also collaborative spaces- This theoretical framework consists of five elements. These are positive interdependence, individual accountability, group processing, face-to-face interaction, and social skills:

By creating a small heterogeneous group of students with a genuine interest in working together, Jessie knew that the group would function collaboratively. As a cooperative learning group, her students demonstrated interdependence as they were encouraged to ask each other for assistance when experiencing difficulty. To guarantee individual accountabilitv, Jessie used the features of Facebook to view the progress of each student and interject support if necessary because she knew that, if any group member's task was incomplete, the group's work would also be incomplete. Jessie designed the structure to ensure group processing. which meant that individuals were expected to evaluate final work and make suggested changes from other group members before they posted the assignment to the "Notes" area of Facebook. Since these students volunteered in the library during different periods and it was unlikely that they could often meet in a classroom setting together. Jessie's use of the Chat feature of Facebook substituted (or face-to-face interaction.

This year, I decided to try using Twitter, and the more we use it, the more power I have found in it. Our class Twitter site now has more than 350 entries (called tweets), and we manage to add four or five each day. Almost every entry was composed by my first and second grade students. Along with text, there are photos taken by the students and posted on Twitpic, and audio of kids reading which we post on Chirbit. Now that the class has had almost a year of experience using Twitter, they know the routine, and composing is pretty easy for most of them.

Once we typed the message, it was then time to edit and revise so that the tweet would fall into the range of 140 or fewer characters. I love that character limit feature for teaching; it provides a real and powerful way, and need, to teach word choice, ideas, and punctuation.

They’re learning the real purpose and power of literacy: communication.

Twitter allows me to block any followers I don’t know, and I do.

The reality is that in this day and age, kids need to be aware of how to navigate these issues, and it only makes sense to me to embed the learning as we create the product.

I regularly print tweets for any family that would like a hard copy and at the end of the year make CDs for each child with the entire record of our Twitter writing.

Imagine being able to go back and read what you did in first or second grade, as told by you and your classmates? I think many of them will find it to be an interesting artifact.

An additional benefit of this endeavor is that my incoming students and families will be able to get a sense of what the new year will be like, which may help ease some anxiety and increase eagerness for school to start again.

I teach at an elementary school in Washington State with a wide range of family income levels.

Twitter has been a great way for us to stay in touch with what Sam is doing in school. When asked what he did in school he often replied, “I don’t know.” But now he is excited to show us on Twitter.

Twitter has created a connection among the parents, our children, the classroom, and the teacher. This exchange of information allows us as parents to watch our children develop and grow throughout the year. I believe our children will receive a better education by creating a connection between everyone. With a more unified interaction and knowledge we can all work towards a common goal, increasing the value of their education. The kids have learned extra skills that they may not receive anywhere else: Taking pictures, telling about their daily events and learning about all the different mediums that are available to them for

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http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html- Uses of facebook http://www.scribd.com/doc/27327211/The-Influence-of-Social-Networking-Sites-to-Interpersonal-Relationships-of-the-Students-of-Rogationist-College-High-School-Department-S-Y-2009-2010 http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Evolution-of-Communication.pdf definitions of the different sites