Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Social Media as a Distraction?

It is easy to think that social media could be a distraction in the writing classroom. If not implemented in the classroom properly, social media based components to courses could occupy such territory. If implemented well, however, students become both engaged in the present writing class and more prepared for future writing which will most certainly become even more web-based than it is today.

In a video published on YouTube by the University of Minnesota entitled "Twitter in the Classroom?," we see how well social media can work:

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