My colleagues and I have begun to conduct fairly open-ended experiments with various social networking platforms.  Personally speaking it’s been a very rewarding experience, because among other things the research dynamic has been much different when approaching emerging technology as a group as opposed to an individual (which I have largely done in the past).  It’s that much easier to evaluate the social elements and discursive potential that way.
Not surprisingly, as a result several of us have also begun to engage in more in depth discussions on the relevance and/or …

Back to school Originally uploaded by Avolore
I haven’t been in school in ten years (almost to the day in fact – I graduated from uni in June 1998), and a whole lot has happened since then – personally, professionally, and indeed to learning and education as we know it.
In 1998 I was in a completely different space, both figuratively, educationally, and geographically. I studied economics at California State University, Fullerton, and lived in in a tiny studio apartment in Long …