The <a target="_blank" href="http://socialmediaclassroom.com/">Social Media Classroom</a> (SMC) is a new project started by <a target="_blank" href="http://smartmobs.com/">Howard Rheingold</a>
which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and
students for the purpose of introducing social media into the
classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat,
social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing,
and more. The SMC is more than just a collection of new media tools
repurposed for educational use, though. The end goal of the service is
to move education away from being a unidirectional delivery of
knowledge to become a more collaborative learning process.<br><br><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_social_media_classroom_a_new_platform_for_education.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_social_media_classroom_a_new_platform_for_education.php</a><br>