During the course of our six weeks of classes together, the online chat room became a place where students could share their personal stories through digital moments. This is what Connelly and Clandinin (1995) refer to as “collaborative story-telling: in our story telling, the stories of our participants merged with our own to create new stories, ones that we have labelled collaborative stories; a mutually constructed story created out of the lives of both researcher and participant” (p. 12). The value of story-telling enabled us to learn more about each other. Sticking to “the content” was important, but straying to the personal became equally important to the learning experience. The affordances of Adobe allowing the class lecture, presentation and simultaneous live chat mirrored the informal learning that occurs in a face-to-face environment. In fact, it