Frances Bell’s Blog

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I have been reading the discussion on openness with great interest, and I wanted to capture a few of the thoughts the discussion has triggered for me.
Meanings
There seems to be some reluctance to pin down the meaning of the word open, George Siemens seeing it a word whose meaning has [...]

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This is an account of my test of integrating Safe Assign (that we are using as a student-centred plagiarism diagnostic tool at Salford) with Endnoteweb,  a web-based version of Endnote bibliographic software that enables users to create their own online databases of references, then use the tool to include correctly styledcitations and reference lists in [...]

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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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