In her post of September 2nd  Margaret seems to be drawn to the idea of the SOCIAL. Her post makes me wonder how much glossing over we do (or should) do of the social aspects of technology. We (in composition) talk about writing as social activity, should we also look for that social aspect in our computer mediated writing courses. Should we teach in social MOOs like LambdaMOO rather than the safe, sanitized educational MOOs like Connections? What are the pros and cons of this decision? Margaret continues with the idea of social/play in her next post. “Is it educational to play?” I hope so! There has to be method to the madness of “educational toys”. I am a firm believer that people do a lot more learning if they are having fun while they do it. Not that college students are like toddlers, we all are, but if it works for them why can’t it work for us? We have to be
interested in, fascinated by, willing to put a lot of time into anything that we want to learn about. So what the heck, learn and have fun!!