Social media on the MSc in E-learning:
blogging networks
Bricolage
a kind of shamanic spontaneous creativity accompanied by a willingness to make do with whatever is at hand, rather than fuss over technical expertise.
thebookman.wordpress.com

in contemporary French the word is the equivalent of the English ‘do it yourself’.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage

and in our own time the 'bricoleur' is still someone who works with his hands and uses devious means compared to those of a craftsman.
Levi-Strauss, Claude (1966) The Savage Mind. 

Deployment is in no way systematic and the drive is principally bottom up, coming from the professional interest and enthusiasm of individual members of staff

In learning and teaching, usage is patchy but a considerable working base exists, as it does in other areas of university business

Use of Web 2.0 technologies is high and pervasive across all age groups from 11 to 15 upwards

Imagining technology used for social purposes in a study context presents conceptual difficulties to learners as well as a challenge to their notions of space

     Report of an independent Committee of Inquiry into
     the impact on higher education of students’
     widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies (2009)
"Facebook and MySpace are avenues to get away from learning not to help learning."
There is a clear tension between the tradition of learning as a highly structured and organized experience, involving clear levels of authority, and the more collaborative, volatile and anarchic nature of the social web.

     Ravenscroft, A (2009) Social software, web 2.0
     and learning: status and implications of an
     evolving paradigm. Journal of Computer
     Assisted Learning, 25(1). pp. 1-5.
We found a tendency for both teachers and learners to ‘reign in’ the potentially destabilizing effects of the new media, to control and constrain them within relatively orthodox understandings of authorship, assessment, collaboration and formal learning.

     Hemmi, A, Bayne, S and Land R (2009) The
     appropriation and repurposing of social
     technologies in higher education Journal
     of Computer Assisted Learning, 25(1). pp.
     19-30.

Holyrood Park in Elgg
'Digital Cultures' in Wordpress
“I felt a connection with the course all the time, even when I wasn’t there I just felt connected to it all the time, and I still feel that.  And I think that's important as well, because I think sometimes students don’t feel connected to what they are doing.”

“This has been the most challenging, infuriating and ultimately rewarding course of study that I have ever undertaken.... Removing the VLE removed our space of enclosure, and made the entire internet our classroom."
Sian Bayne, School of Education