My life has been a whirlwind of activity since NECC and I have found it hard to keep up with blogging. I don’t know why, but I feel guilty blogging when I have other deadlines looming. Do any of you experience that? Is it illogical? Should I blog anyway, much like we still get the day to day things done at work or home, even when we have extra tasks on our "to do" lists. Or should I put 100% of my attention toward the deadlines and follow Grandmas’ rule of "work before play"? I’d love to hear your take. D.

Man, I love this work! Connecting and collaborating is something that really comes natural for me. I am the social cognitive learning theory poster child and I am finding that others also relate well to learning while observing and collaborating with others. Working with others online on common goals in an effort to improve education has impacted my personal practice more than any other type of learning I have ever experienced. I believe it is largely due to the impact situated communities of practice and networks have on self-efficacy. The up.

Just came across a very cool article Social Networking and Class Warfare over on Newsweek. I was alerted of the article on friend and colleague Nancy Flanagan’s blog Teacher in a Strange Land. Nancy says, It seems as though Facebook is the social networking platform for preppies and strivers, while MySpace attracts burnouts, rebels and working class moms. There’s a scholarly study to support these assertions, done by Danah Boyd of UC Berkeley, who finds intriguing evidence that in everything from page design to friend lists, social n.