Frances Bell’s Blog

This very interesting post http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/21/digital-citizen-acceptable-use-agreement/provoked a bit of discussion on Twitter this morning.  Andrew Churches has done some useful work on deriving an Acceptable Use Policy based on 6 tenets of digital citizenship.
“The Digital Citizen will follow six tenets of citizenship.

Respect yourself

Protect yourself

Respect others

Protect others

Don’t steal

Honour Intellectual property.” http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/04/the-digital-citizen/

I really like those tenets as, apart [...]

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I have just read for the second time George Siemens post on Teaching as transparent learning.  It’s an interesting post that stresses the importance of engagement by novices and experts.
The idea of ‘experts’ talking through their learning made me think about the notion of expertise in an online course.  Even where the teacher/facilitator is an [...]

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