Ask your students if they use Facebook and the chances are most of them do. Maybe it's time to take advantage of that and integrate Facebook into your course.

This post on the Online College blog can help you get started. It lists 100 ideas to use Facebook for class projects and for engaging your students in a new medium. Here are just a few:

• Have students follow news feeds relevant to course material.
• Create Apps for Facebook.
• Keep up with politicians -- especially for political science students.

Sam Eneman
Center for Teaching & Learning