Here are some resources and idea for ways to have a more interactive social media experience in your classroom. Developing a network with other professionals online will help find more resources on a consistent basis. Also, it is good to share what worked with others in your network. Remember it is all about community and relationships.

100 ways to use Face-book in your classroom is a good list of ideas and resources: goo.gl/cQ6J9

Facebook for Educators has ideas and a great list of professional develop-ment resources: goo.gl/7bvKL

The Facebook Classroom: 25 Facebook Apps for Online Education: goo.gl/aiywU

Create a group for your class: goo.gl/JxT2j

Teaching with Twitter has some really great ideas on how to incorporate Twit-ter: goo.gl/N3ipr

50 Ways to use Twitter in a College Classroom. Don’t let the college part throw you off. This has great resources for activi-ties, apps, and people to follow in education: goo.gl/4qD3m

50 ways to use Twitter in the Classroom has a vari-ety of subject area ideas: goo.gl/cqe5M

10 ways to Use Pinter-est in the classroom has a variety of ideas: goo.gl/t5Tgy

15 creative (and pin-spired) ways to use Pinterest in the classroom lives up to the creative promised in the title: goo.gl/3dE2k

Other social sites to check out

prezi.com evernote.com voicethread.com

TED.com

slideshare.net

livebinders.comtumblr.com

Google search words

100 Best Video Sites for Teachers: goo.gl/pDkAI

100 Teaching Tools You Should Know About: goo.gl/Yr0li

storify.com

A different kind of presenta-tion. A sharing community.

Connect all your devices. They even have a special section for schools: goo.gl/NSQyX

A collaborative, multimedia slide show for documents to videos where comments can be left by voice to text. See: goo.gl/KZ0a5

Similar to Twitter with no character limit.

Talks about anything you can think of. Here are 10 for online teaching: goo.gl/SDLdR

Organize your resources into a binder on the web.

A place to upload presenta-tions. A lot of great resources for learning.

A place to pull social media posts to create a story.

•Social media in edu-cation

•Social media in the classroom

•21st century teaching•Facebook in the class-

room•Technology in the

classroom•Web 2.0 learning