Listen, gentle rain
Tapping against the window
Listen as I cast my words
Through your treacherous drops
Let them fly
Through these city streets
And find their way to my home
So far away
Let me them reenact my love
At this moment
Across the ocean
Let them peer into your heart
And find your well of solitude intact
Let them act as prayer
In this cynical world
Follow them home
And cry as you do over my home
At the end of summer
When you splash about
Wanting not to go unnoticed
As you wane till sunset
By Michael Gallagher
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.