Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Re: Query - parent Education on Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace)

Here are a couple things you can use...

This was created for the NAIS 2009 Classroom of the Future project...

Adventures in Social Networking: http://www.dlp4success.com/nais2009/Collec=
tion/network.htm

Social Networking in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D6a_KF7=
TYKVc

List of research articles by danah boyd: there is some great stuff here:
http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html

Social networking website and teens (PEW): http://pewresearch.org/pubs/118/=
social-networking-websites-and-teens

Pew has many more resources but this should get you started.


Chris Bigenho
Director of Educational Technology
Greenhill School
4141 Spring Valley Road
Addison, TX 75001
Ph. 972-628-5479
Fx. 972-628-5279
bigenhoc@greenhill.org
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Subject: Query - parent Education on Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, =
MySpace)

Greetings,

I was wondering if any of your schools have done any significant parent edu=
cation on social networks with an emphasis on facebook, etc. If so, do you =
have any links to some research or websites that parents might find helpful=
in navigating the waters through which our "digital age" students swim on =
a daily basis? Thanks in advance,

Dean J. Fusto
Head of Upper School
Assistant Head of School
The Bement School


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