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Took a look at Coursefeed today and added it to my Facebook. Coursefeed is a Facebook application that connects with Blackboard to provide links to Blackboard content. The application creates a course list as shown below. I am only enrolled in a demo course as I am not part of a network using Blackboard. When you select the course you are sent to a page that includes Classroom, Announcements, Content and Roster as tabbed page links. Classroom includes a classroom wall, a file upload section and a course roster. The announcement tab appears to pull information from the class announcements section of Blackboard but I could not tell as only one of the posts I saw on Facebook were part of the actual announcements found in the demo Blackboard site. The application pulls in course content as seen below. These are links to the actual item on the Blackboard site with each major item corresponding to one of the Blackboard menu items holding course information.

This is a tool where a student would have the option to bring course information into a social networking site and based on this information create new social groups. I remember doing something similar to this with university study groups back in the dark ages.  According to my daughter,  students currently use informal systems such as using  course related Facebook networks to keep in touch with other students in a class.  All in all this is an interesting mixture of the social aspects of Facebook with the organizational aspects of Blackboard.

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