Social+Networking+Sites

 Home|Digital Story Ideas|Resources|Teachers Page|Students Page|Social Networks|Documents|Movies and Podcasts| Interactive Whiteboard Resources|Websites  Facebook Facebook is a social networking site that allows you to connect with friends and others who work study and live around you. The page contains a search tool at the top of the news feed where it can find pages and groups similar to your search. The pages and groups are generally used as a tool to promote others interests where they can share their ideas, links and their own opinion on the topic. Teachers can use this tool for literacy with digital storytelling and E-books, where the pages offer links to their own website or applications that display examples of free storybooks they may show the children. This social networking site teachers would use to get ideas on possible stories they could use for their students to do a retell, as well as find examples of digital stories to show the children what they need to produce. Firstly you need to sign up to Facebook by going on the homepage and filling in all aspects that is required then clicking the 'sign up' button. Once you are signed up and on the home page, go to the search bar and type in 'Digital story' or 'E-book' and click on the link that is most suitable. If you like the information given on the page and would like updates click the 'like' button in the right hand corner. This will allow for frequent updates to appear on your wall,  when they are posted as well as contribute your own links, pictures or thoughts on the interest by posting on the group/pages wall. 

For Both of these pages above teachers can find digital stories by going on the Digital Story Website provided on one the the pages or click the featured story icon on the "Center   for Digital Storytelling' page.

**Reference:** Facebook.(2012).Retrieved May 10,2012, from @http://www.facebook.com/

Diigo Diigo is a social bookmarking website, allowing members to share resources with one another within a group. The site had various tags on E-books and Digital Stories which  have been found and shared by other viewers on the site. This social networking site is used as a guide to help teachers on how to tackle literacy for children with them creating <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> their own digital story by providing resources and examples of digital stories. A long with having helpful tools such as the digital storyboard generator, which will help the <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> child come up with their story for the retell. The site also contains information on new stories and when book week is suggesting that the project can be in this week. This <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> website you do not need tosign up to, to obtain the information however if you want to join groups and share your own ideas then it is advised to sign up which you can do   <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">here.



<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Once you fill in all the components to sign up click 'continue'. If you do so then you can be apart of the digital storytelling groups by typing in the search bar, allowing to share share your ideas and resources with other members. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 29px; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">If you are not a member you can still search for the bookmarking tags for digital storytelling, resources, or E-books. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This group item list can be viewed here. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The E-books list you can view here. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">And a resources list for digital stories for teachers can be found here.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **Reference:** Diigo.(2011).Retrieved May 10,2012, from http://www.diigo.com/