Social Networking...it's in or should I say "outside" the classroom!

Julie Lindsay is the author of a blog posting titled Social networking in the classroom: Learning by Stealth where she explains that her class does not end when the students walk out the door. The collaboration, interaction and socialisation continues. Her students interact with each other, they interact with her, their teacher, via online tools of various names and varieties which could all come under the broad term of 'social networking'. They have their own online areas, including digital portfolios, as well as community areas. They post to blogs and respond to each other. They are out there using social bookmarking, class wikis, creating podcasts and vodcasts and putting them online, using social imaging (flickr) and anything else she can think of to encourage motivation and excitement in their ultimate quest for learning.