Frances Bell’s Blog

This is an account of my test of integrating Safe Assign (that we are using as a student-centred plagiarism diagnostic tool at Salford) with Endnoteweb,  a web-based version of Endnote bibliographic software that enables users to create their own online databases of references, then use the tool to include correctly styledcitations and reference lists in [...]

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Josie Frasers post on online identity really got me thinking yesterday.  Of course the point of her categories model is not whether or not it is ‘right’ but rather how it does or doesn’t help each of us think about our online identities and our lives.  There have been lots of interesting comments to Josie’s [...]

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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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