We’ve certainly come a long way but some things seem hauntingly
similar to many years ago. For example, Thomas Edison said in
1925 that “books will soon be obsolete in schools. Scholars will
soon be instructed through the eye.” I’m pretty sure this is
exactly what people are saying these days about the iPad. With
the advent of Web 2.0 and related technologies, Social Computing
has become a new paradigm for the ways we communicate, learn,
and educate. Social Media, including Social Networking Web
sites, Wikis, blogs, tweets, online groups and forums, podcasts,
Web mashups, virtual worlds, MOOC, recommender/evaluation
systems, social tagging/bookmarking, and other related
technologies, are enabling innovative behaviors that enable the
acquisition, access, manipulation, processing, retrieval,
presentation, and visualization of information within a
teaching/learning space. Social Media for education has become
dynamic, ubiquitous, distributed, real-time, collaborative,
bottom-up, manyto-many, value-based, and per