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Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. Whether you teach an elementary class, a traditional college class, or at an online university, you will find inspirational ways to incorporate social media in your classroom with this list.

This new template allows you to create fictional "status updates" that can then be printed off for display purposes. Students could be asked *What are the most important people in this topic? *What was their most important moment within the topic? *What would their comment be about it? *What particular keywords would they use within their comment? *What hashtag could they maybe use at the end of the message? *What nickname did they have / could we invent to use as their username?