Teachers learn about social networking

There's the old way of doing things and then there's the new way. San Francisco Unified School District has decided it's time for teachers to catch up with their students.

"This is Web 2.0 this is the wave of the future. Our kids are already there," said Patricia Theel, from the San Francisco Unified School District.

San Francisco Unified will hold a seminar to teach some of its teachers the finer points of blogging, podcasting and social networking -- and to help them integrate it into their classroom.

"Let's learn social studies in a new innovative way using Web 2.0 tools," said Theel.

The hope is that if a student is having trouble raising his hand and asking a question, then maybe he'll feel more comfortable reaching out to his teacher on his MySpace page.