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Good advice on maintaining an online identity

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Information Systems

Learning and Internationalism

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: ALT · ALT-C 2007 · Information Systems · Research

John Seely Brown and Gender

May 13th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Web 2.0 or Continuity

March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Seb Schmoller invited me to do a guest contribution over at Fortnightly Mailing where I wrote about ideas of innofusion and bricolage in understanding and shaping the read/ write web.
Just when I think that the term Web 2.0 might be dying away, others start on Web 3.0, and they are both Web 1.0 anyway;-)?
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Tags: Information Systems · Learning Technology

Web 2.0 and Dynamic Personalisation

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments

I am currently writing about Theorising ‘Web 2.0′ (initially in education but will broaden later). Obviously I started with the O’Reilly definition (that has a very interesting starting point) and am using that to critique whether or not there is a clear boundary around What is and is not Web 2.0?

Erik Schonfeld used the categories […]

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Tags: Information Systems · Learning Technology