• Some of the most respected names in education technology today provide the information school administrators need to get their schools up to speed on using technology and social media in the classroom. Facebook, Twitter, Google. today's tech-savvy students are always plugged in. However, all too often their teachers and administrators aren't experienced in the use of these familiar digital tools. If schools are to prepare students for the future, administrators and educators must harness the power of digital technologies and social media. Foreword (David Warlick).Introduction.1 Blogs (Kristin Hokanson and Christian Long).2 Wikis (Stephanie Sandifer and Vicki A. Davis).3 Podcasts and Webinars (Steve Dembo and Wesley Fryer).4 RSS and RSS Readers (Will Richardson and Karl Fisch).5 Digital Video (Mathew Needleman).6 Virtual Schooling (Michael Barbour and Richard E. Ferdig).Interlude: Social Media Is Changing the Way We Live and Learn (Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach).7 One-to-One Computing (Chris Lehmann and Pamela Livingston).8 Free and Open Source Software (Tom Hoffman).9 Educational Gaming (John W. Rice).10 Social Bookmarking (Dean Shareski and Mary Beth Hertz).11 Online Mind Mapping (Carl Anderson and Richard Byrne).12 Course Management Systems (Scott S. Floyd and Miguel Guhlin).Interlude: See Sally Research: Evolving Notions of Information Literacy (Joyce Kasman Valenza and Doug Johnson).13 Online Tool Suites (Diana Laufenberg and Mark Wagner).14 Twitter (Alec Couros and Kevin Jarrett).15 Online Images and Visual Literacy (Kimberly Cofino and David Jakes).16 Mobile Phones and Mobile Learning (Liz Kolb and Sharon Tonner).17 Social Networking (Ewan McIntosh and Jeff Utecht).Afterword (Christopher D. Sessums).About the Editors.About the Contributors.Index.