The Way Forward

I know that title is a Bushism, but I couldn't resist it.

I have been dabbling with a few ideas and researching them:
- The sense of belonging to cultural or nation-based communities only
- The use of social software by teachers to impart education and its success
- The use of social software by students to band together for a common cause (e.g. common class) and related outcomes
- Exploring notions of legal responsibilities for end-users and mediators/medium owners in social software (this is the least flushed out idea I have so far)

I have not been able to narrow it down yet to a favorite child. But, I expect to extensive search the Columbia library databases that relate to new media rather than education because it appears that social software is yet to find ready acceptance in education.

At a minimum, I hope to find a gap in research that is worth exploring. Its all very ambiguous right now, but Monday is another day.......to blog.