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 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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 Nicholas Carr identifies Baudrillard as a prophet of ‘twitterification’.  He says “Those that know the technology cannot see beyond it, and those that don’t know the technology cannot see into it. Both end up trafficking in absurdity. ” and goes on to quote Baudrillard’s eerily prophetic words from 1999 (collected in the book The Vital [...]

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Hot on the heels of the ALT-J Special Issue on Immersive Virtual Worlds is the EXTEND two week discussion at CABWEB on Multi-User Virtual Environments in Teaching and Learning.  We have excellent resources and input from the project more …..
Do join us.

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I posted the following as an answer to Ken Anderson in this thread at CCK08 http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1060#p6572
What I meant by seeing power as relational was that:

rather than describing power relations between A and B (I was thinking people here) as A has power over B
we could describe these relations by saying how each of A and [...]

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