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Certainly, pedagogy may be an issue. Whatever the case, human anxiety is a critical issue in the employment of Web 2.0 technology in nursing education. In an article in Nursing Education Perspectives, the issue is raised as to whether social media such as Twitter could bridge the gap. It appears that Twitter may provide a social media that ties classes together and builds classroom comradery and community in the online classroom. Faculty interviewed in the article have reported success in this area. They report that the ability to send an unshared message to the instructor was helpful and may help reduce student anxiety (Skiba, 2008, 110-111).

It appears to this author that Twitter has tremendous potential, not just in the area of class community building and reduction of student anxiety, but also in developing and adapting the tool because of the handy diagnostic tools available to analyze bands of tweets regarding subject matter.

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The use in the classroom could be used as a supplement to the standard online courseware in live online courses in order to preserve student privacy, thereby easing the student anxiety about the new technologies.

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Certainly, social media is not a panacea and will not cure all of the problems with online learning in nursing education. Indeed, much of what we see may simply be teething pains. However, social media such as Twitter has incredible potential to innovatively and dynamically supplement the existing courseware and help it along by mitigating issues of student anxiety with Web 2.0 technologies and hopefully midwife the transition to a greater integration of online learning into the fabric of nursing education......

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