Frances Bell’s Blog

I have been scratching my head to see why the term Edupunk raises vague and irrational feelings of irritation and suspicion in me.   I love the philosophy of bricolage, workarounds and experimentation that it seems to encompass.  After all the ‘poster boy’ for Edupunk, Jim Groom, has been blogging his experiments and thoughts on BuddyPress [...]

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Nielsen have published a report called Global Faces and Networked Places - A Nielsen report on Social Networking’s New Global Footprint

Report Highlights are:
1. Putting the growth of social networks – popularity and engagement – into context
2. How the audience to social networks is changing
3. The challenges facing advertisers on social networks
4. What advertisers can do [...]

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http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/78.html
Danah Boyd has blogged some good advice on online identities.

“Create a public Internet identity. I strongly recommend blogging, but even a homepage will do. Have a genuine all-accessible identity online that you’re cool with grandma and your boss reading. Don’t make it uber drab, but do provide context for who you are, what you do, [...]

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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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http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/30.html
I was directed to this list of recordings at EdTEchLive and noticed this interview of John Seely Brown, formerly of Xerox Parc.
The whole thing is worth listening to but if you are short of time, just listen to the last few minutes.?
At the end of this interview when asked to include anything missed out, he [...]

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