Frances Bell’s Blog

Michelle Selinger, CISCO, described herself as an escaped academic, about to start a new post in Australia.  She spoke of the different ways in which people, young and old, use technology.� She used a South Park-esque / MMORPG clip from youtube to demonstrate how young people are collaborating online with multimedia to learn ” about [...]

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I am about to set out for ALT-C 2007 and I know that it’s going to be difficult to choose which sessions to attend.� I plan to blog those I attend.
I’d also like to recommend an excellent way to wake up (after all that Ceilidh dancing) on Wednesday morning. Helen Keegan, Josie Fraser and I [...]

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In an interesting session at 11.30 on Tuesday morning, Caroline Walker from University of Sunderland spoke of her use of blogs with education students in two modules to promote academic and digital literacies, and criticality. The use of blogs was driven by pedagogy and programme objectives, and took account of the students’ previous and [...]

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I am writing this in morning coffee break of Tuesday morning.?
Diana Oblinger from Educause talked about today’s learners and how they behave differently from a previous generation because of the different experiences they have had read more here? .? She raised issues such as immediacy, social and multi-modal communication, informal learning, choice.? Changed behaviours are [...]

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