How Social Networking Helps Teaching (and Worries Some Professors) - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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Ask students to do role-playing exercises on Facebook or Twitter. For instance, students in an American-history course could each be required to set up a Facebook page for a historical figure and periodically post "status updates" of things the famous people did. Similarly, Utah State University organized a Civil War re-enactment on Twitter.
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Some attendees stressed that there is a danger that professors would use
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new technologies just because they seemed cool, rather than for any specific learning goa
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This article gave specific examples of how social media was used in the class room. Being a History major I especially liked the idea of making pages for certain historical figures and posting status updates about things that person did
