Facebook for college classrooms too much?

Facebook started out on college campuses, but does that mean it should be the new forum for college classrooms? This article, “5 Best Practices for Educators on Facebook,” claims it should. It’s obvious that a great majority of students spend hours every day online – updating their status, tagging pictures from the weekend or just…

Social media and societal revolution

Forbes recently published an article titled “Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution in the Age of Social Media”. Having spent time studying in the Czech Republic, and recalling that social media didn’t exist during the Velvet Revolution, I wondered what might have happened if such technology had been in the hands of the 500,000 citizens…