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	<title>Frances Bell's Blog</title>
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	<description>if a tree falls in the forest - does it make a sound if no-one hears it?</description>
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		<title>Institutional Transformation - 2 week extension to Call for Papers</title>
		<link>http://francesbell.com/2010/01/26/institutional-transformation-2-week-extension-to-call-for-papers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Bell</dc:creator>
		
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I am Here for the Learning Revolution
Originally uploaded by Wesley Fryer
There is a 2 week extension to the Special Issue of the ALT Journal on The Transformational Impact of Learning Technology, so it&#8217;s not too late to make a submission.  There is a range of topics - see Call for Papers (link now corrected), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideals or ideologies - open minds and mouths</title>
		<link>http://francesbell.com/2009/12/31/ideals-or-ideologies-open-minds-and-mouths/</link>
		<comments>http://francesbell.com/2009/12/31/ideals-or-ideologies-open-minds-and-mouths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Bell</dc:creator>
		
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Madonna - Voices
Originally uploaded by alphadesigner
I have been reading the discussion on openness with great interest, and I wanted to capture a few of the thoughts the discussion has triggered for me.
Meanings
There seems to be some reluctance to pin down the meaning of the word open, George Siemens seeing it a word whose meaning has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Transformational Impact of Learning Technology</title>
		<link>http://francesbell.com/2009/12/14/the-transformational-impact-of-learning-technology-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Bell</dc:creator>
		
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Seated Statue
Originally uploaded by dougwoods
A writing project for Christmas and the New Year
Professors John Bourne, Martin Hall (@VCSalford on Twitter) and Mike Keppell are guest editing a Special Issue of ALT-J, entitled The Transformational Impact of Learning Technology more details of Call for Papers here.
This is such an important topic, and we are hoping for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few more thoughts on Openness</title>
		<link>http://francesbell.com/2009/11/25/a-few-more-thoughts-on-openness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am posting my embarrassingly long comment on Dave Cormier&#8217;s excellent post so that I can easily find it in future - blog as filing cabinet!
In a recent post http://francesbell.com/2009/11/23/what-is-that-groups-and-networks-argument-all-about/ I looked at openness (and other attributes) as something to which we might aspire but not necessarily an absolute.  The example I used was privacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is that Groups and Networks argument all about?</title>
		<link>http://francesbell.com/2009/11/23/what-is-that-groups-and-networks-argument-all-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Bell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I first came across Stephen Downes characterisation of Groups and Networks in 2006
And my reaction to it then was quite similar to my current view, that the very open word group was being associated with a set of attributes in order to make it different from the desired form of association - networks.
&#8216;When _I_ use [...]]]></description>
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