He covers engaging students with backchannels and polls, soliciting feedback for presentations, and assessing learning with Twitter, Facebook, and other tools. In a bonus chapter, he'll show how social media can extend students' experiences outside the classroom, providing opportunities for collaborative reading, group projects, fieldwork, and shared student portfolios.

Topics include:
* Moving from social networking to "social netlearning"
* Balancing social media with in-class activities
* Creating social media guidelines
* Using Twitter for polls
* Using Facebook for student-generated test questions
* Connecting to real-world scenarios and people
* Using ReadWriteThink and Facebook to construct timelines
* Using Flickr and YouTube to collect student fieldwork
* Showcasing student work in online portfolios

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