Frances Bell’s Blog

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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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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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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Have you seen this beautiful video?
I first saw this on Nancy White’s blog where I had an interesting little dialogue with her. I was bowled over when I watched the video by its elegance and simplicity.? Then it occurred to me - What would I see with a screen reader?? I should soon have the [...]

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