This is the sort of thing that might come in handy for English 516: “New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development,” from the MacArthur foundation. Of course we’re going to have some kind of unit on things like Facebook in 516– possibly we’ll set up some kind of thing like Ning just because we could, though setting up you own social network is a little like having a party and not inviting anyone.
Anyway, I might start working on putting together the winter 516 web site in some of the downtime in visiting the family in Iowa. It’s a lot more fun to work on an upcoming class than it is to do the work for things I’m teaching right now….