I'm also interested in this topic. I had some email contacts a year or so ago with a couple of the opponents. I'm traveling right now but will take some time to look back through the email archives after getting home to see what articles were passed along to me. I have taught 200+ undergraduate students at the university over the course of the last 2 years. I keep virtual office hours. Students have access to me 24/7 via email, text messaging, and telephone (mobile and home phones). Email has been the most popular communication technology up until recently. I established a Facebook account last November and current and former students are starting to find me. They are using the email exchange feature of this technology to keep in touch as well as other features, such as poking and writing on the wall. I create a student-centered learning environment. It would be interesting to know if faculty who create student-centered learning environments are more open to using email, and other communication technologies, to interact with students than those who create teacher-centered learning environments. -- Gail Gail Taylor, M.Ed. Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign