Benefits of social networking for pre-service teachers

1. Dr. Bernadette Kelley Associate Professor Florida A&M University Co-Presenter: Matthew Pridgen, Student Kappa Delta Pi Convocation October 29-31, 2009

7. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets . Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 Characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers .

8. Ning is a social network designed around creating social networks. Ning invites users to create their own social network . Ning is a portal to mini-social networks since you can choose to join any of the thousands of user-created networks, and in other ways, it is a social network development platform. The open-ended nature of Ning makes the possibilities limited only by your own imagination.

10. Facebook is a global social networking website. Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.