Frances Bell’s Blog

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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On Tuesday afternoon, I attended the short paper session on Learning and Internationalism. Alannah Fitzgerald presented the first paper, Social computing and the microcredit activities, brought to our attention by Professor Yunus, 2006 Nobel prize winner. Learners are exposed to examples provided by the Overcoming Poverty network, tagged and aggregated via […]

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Agnes Kukulska-Hulme introduced the symposium by using images to explore the tensions between personal space and social space in mobile learning, showing how people seek out spaces that suit them and what they are doing, amenable contexts for working or learning.� Across the world, different technologies are offered and positioned to suit cultural contexts.� […]

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