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Technology design has profound implications for social practices. A critical impact of social practices relates to boundary conditions related to dimensions of power, hierarchy, and discipline in education. Communities have social practices and rules that affect how they collaborate and communicate within and how well they are able to join with other communities. This document explores stories that document how designs have impacted practices that cross boundaries: reifying or breaking down these boundaries. It examines stories of collaborations between communities of scientists and science educators, examining the parameters that permit successful collaboration and those that inhibit collaboration. In the end, we try to identify parameters of software design that influence practices across boundaries, extract some lessons from the stories, and document some general principles that might be useful for technology design. Working Draft
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