Frances Bell’s Blog

This very interesting post http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/21/digital-citizen-acceptable-use-agreement/provoked a bit of discussion on Twitter this morning.  Andrew Churches has done some useful work on deriving an Acceptable Use Policy based on 6 tenets of digital citizenship.
“The Digital Citizen will follow six tenets of citizenship.

Respect yourself

Protect yourself

Respect others

Protect others

Don’t steal

Honour Intellectual property.” http://edorigami.edublogs.org/2009/05/04/the-digital-citizen/

I really like those tenets as, apart [...]

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I have just read for the second time George Siemens post on Teaching as transparent learning.  It’s an interesting post that stresses the importance of engagement by novices and experts.
The idea of ‘experts’ talking through their learning made me think about the notion of expertise in an online course.  Even where the teacher/facilitator is an [...]

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I listened to part of #learntrends at http://bit.ly/42i7ke but didn’t feel moved to contribute (as corporate education/ training is a little outside my comfort zone).  It was all quite interesting and then someone pointed out that of the circa 100 participants, about 50% were women but the conversation had been male-dominated to that point. Dave [...]

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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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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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