Frances Bell’s Blog

Here is an update on my session that was on Wednesday, called Transparent Teaching and Learning - what remains when the teacher disappears?
It was the first Elluminate recording that I have presented (although I have attended quite a few) and I really enjoyed it.  It was all quite relaxed and lowbrow rather than highbrow but [...]

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Below is the abstract that I have been unable to send to George Siemens for the Net Pedagogy conference session on Wed 11 Nov 2000 GMT.
This session’s deliberately ambiguous title (is it a statement or a question?) encourages us to think about teachers disappearing and appearing. Rather than eliminating teaching and teachers, I recommend [...]

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(my blog posts are like buses - none for ages then 2 come along at once)

Teacher in your network
Year 2~Day 207 +178/366: Learning about Geometry
Originally uploaded by Old Shoe Woman
George Siemens asked this question at at the Networked Learning Conference hot seat that I missed last week.
Can learning networks (partly) replace the teacher?
The slightly ambiguous [...]

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With 2 colleagues at Salford, I am delivering a module called Emerging Technologies to ca 500 year 1 students at Salford Business School and great fun it is too! In the first lecture Marie Griffiths showed the students this video.

I think that they quite liked it, putting their education on the context of what [...]

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bored
Originally uploaded by izqrdo
[Blog post based on my response to LDHEN list server]
I was fascinated to read about student boredom in David Hardman’s blog post .  He said “New research by Sandi Mann and Andrew Robinson has found that boredom during classes may be a regular experience for most university students, and one which is [...]

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