Frances Bell’s Blog

I am posting my embarrassingly long comment on Dave Cormier’s excellent post so that I can easily find it in future - blog as filing cabinet!
In a recent post http://francesbell.com/2009/11/23/what-is-that-groups-and-networks-argument-all-about/ I looked at openness (and other attributes) as something to which we might aspire but not necessarily an absolute.  The example I used was privacy [...]

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I first came across Stephen Downes characterisation of Groups and Networks in 2006
And my reaction to it then was quite similar to my current view, that the very open word group was being associated with a set of attributes in order to make it different from the desired form of association - networks.
‘When _I_ use [...]

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Session went well - Recording here
One of the wonders of the CCK09 course is that bottom up organisation is encouraged and supported.  Arising from a thread in the Moodle forum, we are organising an Elluminate session with short participative slots.
Check the time here.
Title: Responses to connectivism
Place Elluminate room
Date/time Wed 25 Nov, 2000 GMT
Each presenter picks [...]

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Here is an update on my session that was on Wednesday, called Transparent Teaching and Learning - what remains when the teacher disappears?
It was the first Elluminate recording that I have presented (although I have attended quite a few) and I really enjoyed it.  It was all quite relaxed and lowbrow rather than highbrow but [...]

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Below is the abstract that I have been unable to send to George Siemens for the Net Pedagogy conference session on Wed 11 Nov 2000 GMT.
This session’s deliberately ambiguous title (is it a statement or a question?) encourages us to think about teachers disappearing and appearing. Rather than eliminating teaching and teachers, I recommend [...]

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