Just had email notification of this Classroom 2.0 event:
‘Web sites like Facebook and Twitter have transformed the way young people interact and communicate. With appropriate guidelines, students’ social networking skills can be harnessed to develop new literacies and deepen teaching and learning in the 21st century.
‘The Socially Networked Classroom demonstrates how pioneering teachers have successfully integrated screen-based literacies into their instruction. This book includes:
‘With this accessible guide for Grades 5–12, teachers of all levels of technological expertise can help students develop the new literacies necessary to succeed in a digital world.
‘William Kist is an associate professor at Kent State University, where he teaches literacy methods courses for pre-service teachers in the area of English Education in the Adolescence to Young Adult Education Program. He also teaches graduate students in the Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program and in Curriculum & Instruction.
‘He has been a middle school and high school language arts teacher for the Akron Public Schools (teaching at, among other schools, his alma mater, Firestone High School); a language arts and social studies curriculum coordinator for the Medina County Schools’ Educational Service Center and theHudson City Schools; and a consultant and trainer for school districts across the United States, both independently and as a consultant for the National Council of Teachers of English.’
Here’s the book:
The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age
Tags: education, Facebook, Simon Kidd, social networking, Twitter, William Kist
Simon Kidd 
March 29, 2010 at 11:32 am
This looks like a really useful book. I’ll order a copy for the library (when things have settled down a little in the wake of the storm damage).
It’s good to see your blog becoming a growing repository of links to useful resources.