Learning is really a social process… and what better way to realize a social community of learners than social software? This is squarely in the area of my own work, research, and writing: creating learning communities and promoting the new literacies needed to be a participatory learner, to engage in the real world while learning, to continue learning by creating one’s own learning “space” that serves as a place to connect, think, synthesize and share. Uber-bloggers do this naturally, another sign of the sense it makes.

If you are interested in this stuff, I would highly recommend checking out the sites of some educational/edtech bloggers. There are highly academic bloggers, of course, but the format tends to attract people who are really doing it, experimenting, and willing to talk about what they are doing. D’arcy Norman’s collection of edublogs is a good start… here’s the OPML for it.