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E-Learning and Social Networking Handbook Resources for Higher Education by Robin Mason and Frank Rennie, Routledge, NY, 2008** This is an excellent book on designing courses with web 2.0 tools and social networking. It is aimed at higher education but has terrific explanations and ideas that can be used at the high school level. Also, it is completely research based. There is a corresponding website but it does not seem active. [|www.socialnetworking.wetpaint.com]

A very useful quote from this book: page 135: "Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the information literacy skills of new students are not improving as the post-1993 Internet boomlet enters college. At the same time, in a sea of user-created content, collaborative work, and instant access to information of varying quality, the skills of critical thinking, research, and evaluation are increasingly required to make sense of the world." (The horizon report 2007 edition. Retrieved December 12, 2007, from The New Media Consortium and Educause website http:www.nmc.org/horizon/2007/report)