Frances Bell’s Blog

http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/francesbell/weblog/566.html
I read with interest Nicola’s and George’s posts about ‘e’ learning and blended learning, and this has induced a mild if longish rant.� I am very much with Nicola here, and have to admit that George’s reference to blended learning slightly provoked the rant ;-)� The term blended learning tends to have that effect on [...]

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http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/francesbell/weblog/565.html
Looks like Emerge has been picked up by Spammers, see George’s wall.
I am keen to hear about technical solutions to this, as my own project is using elgg too.

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http://emerge.elgg.org/francesbell/weblog/312.html
Well, I thought I would share this very Web 2.0 cartoon with Emerge.
Thanks Hugh McLeod.?

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http://emerge.elgg.org/francesbell/weblog/298.html
Danah Boyd has posted on a panel presentations to the US Internet Caucus Advisory Committee. She contributed a qualitative data perspective to complement the quantitative perspective from David Finkelhor (Director of Crimes Against Children Research Center), Amanda Lenhart (PEW), and Michele Ybarra (President of Internet Solutions for Kids). The video of the panel discussion is [...]

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http://emerge.elgg.org/francesbell/weblog/249.html
In my first post here, I wondered out loud about managing 2 elgg blogs (I now have three - 2 project and one personal).  Josie helpfully told me how to use feeds to feed posts from one to another. During the experimentation phase, I overdid the feeds into what might be called a vicious circle [...]

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