1. A Presentation for the 2008 North Carolina Art Education Association Professional Development Conference Robert D. Quinn, Ph.D. East Carolina University quinnr@ecu.edu

2. What is Social Networking? On the Web, A Platform For: Making New Friends Aligning for a Common Cause Re-Acquainting with Old Friends Gathering Popular Support for a Brand/Product Advertising Other Similar Social Functions

3. What Does It Look Like? A Variety of Formats, Most Popularly: Facebook MySpace Ning YouTube deviantArt Classmates

4. Facebook- www.facebook.com

5. MySpace- www.myspace.com

6. Ning- www.ning.com

8. YouTube- www.youtube.com

9. deviantART- www.deviantart.com

10. ClassMates- www.classmates.com

11. Leveraging Social Networking For Art Education? In the classroom: A star student might display his or her work for the class A work of video art might be screened for the class Show and tell for the 21 st century Soundtracks for the classroom during studio time

12. Leveraging Social Networking For Art Education? Beyond the classroom: To critique student work To discuss art history videos To critique time-based work To make interpersonal connections To distribute art-related audio podcasts To collaborate (Ning) To make class-related announcements

13. Questions for Discussion How are you using social networking websites in art education? In what additional ways could you envision an art educator leveraging social networking websites in and beyond the classroom? Other Questions?

14. A Presentation for the 2008 North Carolina Art Education Association Professional Development Conference Robert D. Quinn, Ph.D. East Carolina University quinnr@ecu.edu