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We want to engage students across the country in social networking around the news and news literacy through the tools they already use to connect: text messages, blogs, quizzes, polls and voting. We also want the site to be a place where students discuss their experiences in the project and post their own work. In the comment section below, please share your ideas about how to use new media to involve students this way.
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I think that having a site that will allow these students to do what you say above would be a great way to harness the power of their social networks and give them an outlet to share and discuss their own experiences. I would be wary about creating a completely new tool, however. It sounds to me like Facebook would be a great opportunity to hook into this type of community. If you could develop a Facebook Application that would allow you to do these things, you already have a huge base of people that would be ready to use it.October 23, 2008 at 12:41 AM: