I won’t have to manually post the items in the Links section, but I can use RSS-Connect to take care of it for me. You can also create custom boxes with FBML and integrate applications or causes related to your office/organization. Facebook pages are a one-stop-shop for viewers;
I believe Pages are a great hub for recruitment and awareness, but not an end all (groups are 25% focus for our office). Groups are necessary in the sense that they give ground to form community for students on a smaller scale.
Faculty, and campus administrators, can utilize social media as a tool for creating new ways to engage students by posting relevant articles, research and websites to these social media sites that students are frequenting on a very regular basis; hence, encouraging outside the classroom learning.
To see the future of technology in the classroom, check out this slide share presentation, "Lectures That Stick: Digital Tools You can Use to Encourage Engagement and Retention."
MU this summer is installing a program called Tegrity that will allow the recording of lectures, which can later be downloaded through Apple's iTunes U to the iPhone, iPod Touch, or PC
you can show up with a PC or no computer at all and everything will be OK