Do you belong to an online social network? Don’t miss excellent opportunities!

Online social networking offer teachers a great dimension of continuous learning. Learning by interacting with other teachers and experts of the field…

Once you are involved in an online social network, you can start experiencing the greatness of diversity by sharing experiences with individuals from all around the world.

Especially when the shared interest is teaching, there are excellent opportunities for exchanging ideas, producing and sharing knowledge. You also have chance to connect your students to the world by building international connections via online social networks.

Below you can find some links to social networks for teachers. First, you need to sign up. Then you can get started by joining forum discussions or starting your own discussion. Soon you will see that you won’t be able to spend a day without checking your account and seeing what’s going on in your online network.

Webheads : World-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-community of educators. Click here for an audio introduction to the Webheads. Click here for an article about the Webheads.
Classroom 2.0 -  For people who are interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.   
EFL Classroom 2.0 : Sharing resources and methods available for EFL / ESL teachers and students around the world.
Teach with Internet : For teachers to share ideas, tips, suggestions and all kinds of materials that can help integrate technology into education.
Learn with Internet :For both teachers and learners to share educational suggestions, videos, links, discussions, blog posts, photos, etc.
Tweet4education : About the idea of using twitter in education. Interesting!
Edublogger World : For educational bloggers worldwide.
ICT in Education: Sharing ideas and resources that can be used in the teaching and managing of information and communication technology.
NextGen Teachers: Focusing the idea of improving teaching and learning with new technologies.
Palabea: Connecting people who share the same interests in learning languages and in discovering different cultures.
Lingofriends: A meeting place for all kind of people, interested in language, and on all levels of expertise.
Voices of the World: A network created with the idea of connecting children together using their voices rather than text and images.

It would be great if you send your comments on online social networking, share your experiences and add more online social network links!

HAPPY NETWORKING!

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