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Social Media in Classroom: Using Google Tools

By Ingrid Sturgis, Howard University

Teaching writing and reporting in the digital age has moved far beyond demonstrating how to craft an inverted pyramid story structure. Today’s always-on student is wired to friends, family and classmates via cell phones, Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz. They write and send assignments on their Blackberries and Twittered the news of Michael Jackson’s death to their friends via iPhone before ever reading a complete news article about it.