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Her areas of interest are online education and educational reform. She can be contacted at crichtos@ucalgary.ca .  \nShelley Kinash is Faculty with the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Program, University of Calgary . She is a Doctoral candidate with the Graduate Division of Educational Research conducting research into Universal Design of Online Learning. She is a Doctoral Fellow with the Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness out of Louisiana Tech University and the Galileo Educational Network. She can be contacted at kinash@shaw.ca  \nAbstract  \nRecognizing the power of the Internet to connect people, regardless of place or time, we explore the notion of a virtual form of ethnography, suggesting online, textual interactive interviews are worthy of research consideration. This paper reports on three research projects, drawing examples from almost ten years in the evolution of Internet supported conferencing software . It is the position of this paper that we were able to share and develop new insights into being authors, interlocutors, online learners, online researchers, and members of an educational context. Further, we feel that we were able to sustain conversations beyond the scope of many traditional face to face interview sessions, noting that the participants enjoyed the process and often found it hard to quit their interactions with us . Hence our position that even though the technology is still emerging and improving, the potential is clearly rich, inviting, and worth continued study . nstructor if given the authority in a social constructivist learning environment.  \nRésumé  \nReconnaissant la capacit é de l'Internet à mettre les gens en relation, quels que soient l'end roit ou l'heure, nous explorons la notion d'une forme virtuelled'ethnographie, suggé rant que les entrevues interactives textuelles en ligne constituent un sujet de recherche digne d'inté rêt. Cet article pré sente les ré sultats de trois projets de recherche, s 'appuyant sur des exemples tiré s  \nde l'évolution des logic ie ls de t éléconférence par l'Internet, depuis presque dix ans . Nous expliquons, dans cet article, comment nous avons pu exprimer, et élaborer, de nouvelles idées sur notre rôle d'auteurs, d'interlocuteurs, d'apprenants et de c hercheurs en ligne, et de membresd'un cad re pédagogique . De plus, nous pensons avoir eu des conversations dépassant largement le cadre des sessions d'entrevues en t ête à t ête traditionnelles, et avons constaté que les participants appré cia ient le processus et avaient souvent du mal à mettre un terme à nos interactions avec eux . D'o è notre position, à savoir que, mê me si la technologie ne fait qu'é merger et continuera de s 'améliorer, son potentiel est manifestementriche et attrayant, et vaut certainement la peine d'être étudié plus avant.  \nIntroduction  \nIt is probably safe to say that the Internet as technology and the World Wide Web as information media are pervasive elements in the world today . Authors such as Cappelli (2003) , Garrison and Anderson (2003) , Irvine (2003) , Levine (2003) , Pittinsky (2003) , Spicer (2003) , and Twigg (2003) suggest that as educational technologies, the Internet and World Wide Web are transformational and even revolutionary . Recognizing the power of the Internet to connect people, regardless of place or time, we explore the notion of a virtual form of ethnography, suggesting online, textual interactive interviews are worthy of research consideration. We also suggest that developments in software and bandwidth have made them a valuable tool to study online activity and therefore warrant understanding as a legitimate methodology . 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