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Title: Whither Twitter? Colleges so far are cool to leveraging the hot social networking site as a learning tool.(SPECIAL REPORT: DISTANCE LEARNING)
Author: Paul Bradley
Publication: Community College Week (Newspaper)
Date: May 18, 2009
Publisher: Autumn Publishing
Volume: 21 Issue: 19 Page: 6(3)

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To community colleges already squeezed between skyrocketing enrollments and shrinking resources, social networking sites might reek of information overload for professors and administrators already immersed in websites, blogs and e-mail.

But as the Internet continues has migrated to Web 2.0–characterized by mobile computing devices, two-way communication, information sharing, collaboration and interoperability–social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. are getting a closer look by educators curious to see whether and where they fit into the instructional landscape.