Frances Bell’s Blog

I have been very excited to see the publication of the electronic and print version of the ALT-J Special Issue - Learning and Teaching in Immersive Virtual Worlds.  I think that it is a great resource for anyone working in this area, but I may be biased by the fact that it’s the first issue [...]

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Stephen Downes posted a reply to my blog post http://francesbell.com/2008/11/09/cck08-is-connectivism-a-learning-network/ at http://connect.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=44375.  I tried to reply there but my comment was not accepted so I am posting it here, hoping it gets picked up automatically.
I was very grateful for Stephen’s comments, as there is plenty still be ironed out (from my persective at least).  I [...]

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Have you got something to say about the Digital Divide? Now is your chance.
We would like to invite participation in a Digital Divide Slam in association with a workshop at ALT-C 2008.
If you aren’t attending the conference, you are welcome to participate as an individual or small group.  Can you produce [...]

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The latest Facebook application to home into my view is Friendswheel, that shows connections between your friends.  This seems to be genuinely useful (unlike some FB apps) and I had a bit of fun annotating my wheel as it is today (link to current version of my wheel).
I  could pick out some clear subnets and [...]

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I am a bit late in blogging the Web 2.0 Slam workshop session that Helen Keegan, Josie Fraser and I facilitated at 9.30 on Wednesday at ALT-C 2007. My excuse is that I was busy helping to update the workshop WIKI on Wednesday and busy at the Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 [...]

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