How I Would Use Facebook In My Classroom/ Ning posting

The way I would use facebook and social networking in my classroom would be to use it as CREATING A NEWS SOURCE.  For example students can choose an interesting article in the daily newspaper that they think is important or interesting. Students can post daily their article of choice, summerize it, and then give their thoughts on the news article.  Students would then be responsible to read at least one classmates posting and give a thoughtful response on their thoughts to a classmates article of choice. As the teacher I would also like for the students to FOLLOW NEWS FEED on a social network.  At least once a week, students should follow a news feed that is not from their local community, and respond and give a thoughtful response on news thats around the world.  I believe that this gives students research experience and allows them to communicate with their classmates at home or in the school setting.