Using Facebook in a literature class is the subject of my second episode of the Academic Evolution Podcast. With Stephen Humphrey I discuss the merits and limits of using this popular online social networking service for teaching and learning. Students are sharing and interacting in ways they would not have, but also seem to see the medium as too informal for serious work and are at times afraid to put their work "out there" where it can be seen by peers. We agree that our role as educators is to refine the use of the medium that the students are already using.
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