Frances Bell’s Blog

This recent Edupunk conversation rumbles on:
Stephen Downes  in OL Daily seems concerned that Martin Ebner ’s approach is insufficiently unwashed.
Graham Attwell quotes Scott Wilson’s Personal Learning and Web 2.0 presentation on how institutions can respond to Web 2.0.
I agree with Graham that the music analogy is getting stretched - I even spent some time looking [...]

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When I was a systems developer, it was fashionable to loathe the task of documentation, yet when making system changes we were grateful for any that had been provided.  With student project work, we demand documentation of products and require some record of the process, often to support the valuable reflection that can maximise student [...]

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(thanks to Washington Post http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/sc/2009/03/11/
A cartoon of my byline updated for twitter - that has made my day!
So I am thinking of five possibilities here, in increasing order of ‘volume’ and belief :
1. Tree falls in forest - noone hears it - does it make a sound?
2. Tree falls in forest - someone without a [...]

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Shiny Happy People
Originally uploaded by s.o.f.t.

This has been a long Christmas break for me - winter virus followed by holiday - and I am finding it difficult to get into the swing of the New Year and work commitments.  It would be easy to be gloomy in this environment of economic downturn but [...]

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards
This is an old one from Christmas 2006 but still quite funny.

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