Facebook launches a new tool for Educators. It requires a ‘.edu’ email address and allows schools to create groups. Within these groups the schools can send emails, upload files, create calendars, post messages, etc. – pretty much everything you can do on Facebook but it’s private for your school. I would love to hear from a school that ends up using this as I am sure many are very apprehensive considering Facebook is ‘Taboo’ in most schools and universities.<\/p>\n

Here is a link: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/about\/groups\/schools<\/a><\/p>\n

Another article with more information at Mashable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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