I've been suffering lately from Drop-In-The-Bucket Syndrome, a disorder common among educational researchers. Symptoms include the following: A sense of fatigue, malaise, or feeling overwhelmed; slight to extreme insomnia, often accompanied by extremely vivid nightmares; and a slight to extreme case of vertigo, often characterized by the sensation of having moved forward when in fact one has barely moved at all.

I've been thinking lately about identity play. I'm focused on this right now because of Project NML's collaboration with Project Zero's GoodPlay Project on an ethics casebook focusing on the five ethical categories GoodPlay outlines in its white paper. This month, we've been talking about identity. A recent brainstorm session got me thinking about the assumptions we (read: Americans) make about the relationship between the identities we take on and our sense of who we are.

Last semester, our collaboration with Harvard University's Project GoodPlay focused on examining issues of ownership and authorship and developing activities that got young people thinking about these issues in terms of ethics. I've been thinking a lot lately about how the ethics of intellectual property relates to fashion.

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