Frances Bell

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PLE Conference in Aveiro, Portugal and Melbourne

The 2012 Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Conference is being held simultaneously in Aveiro (Portugal) and Melbourne (Australia) in July this year. You can submit paper 1200 word extended abstracts for full papers or 700 words for short papers, posters and doctoral consortium panel participation and there will soon be news on other types of presentation,…

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francesbell • March 11, 2012

Lansley’s Health Bill -Lolcatted in No 10

In the UK, many of our cherished institutions are under threat from the coalition government, none more so than our beloved NHS.  Today a petition to “Drop the Health Bill” http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22670 passed the magic 100,000 signatures that will help it to be considered in parliament. In celebration of this momentous occasion, I have LOLcatted an…

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francesbell • February 14, 2012

Schnuffel is a post looking for a topic

Schnuffel, a photo by amonja on Flickr. Do you like Schnuffel? I blogged this pic as a demo today but now think he is so cute can anyone suggest a topic for a post to go with this pic? Ideas please.

francesbell • January 30, 2012

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Comparing two publication channels – academic journals and blogs

    I am going to throw out a few initial ideas about comparing academic journals and blogs as publication channels, as a kick off to a writing project I’ll be doing with Cristina Costa. Let me start by saying that it is very difficult to generalise about either academic journals or blogs as channels…

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francesbell • January 29, 2012

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Increasing the relevance, audience and reach of a scholarly journal

In another post I wrote about Research in Learning Technology’s move to Open Access and since then the transition has taken place. The web site is open for business so authors can submit their papers for consideration. Our full back catalog is available so researchers and practitioners can search for relevant content knowing that there…

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francesbell • January 21, 2012

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Open Access is a piece for cake for Research in Learning Technology

Research in Learning Technology , the journal for the Association for Learning Technology, is going Open Access from January 2012 (with Rhona Sharpe, I am co-editor of the journal).  ALT’s plans for Open Access publishing have developed over several years, and we are very keen that this move can extend the impact of the journal…

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francesbell • November 28, 2011

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Jargon at JISC Innovating e-Learning 2011 Online Conference

CCL Kevin Spencer at http://www.flickr.com/photos/vek/4997286231/ The issue of jargon came up at the JISC online conference more than once today.  This was my first involvement at the conference, and I was asked to contribute to 2 sessions on digital literacies. Despite many other commitments and a stinking cold, I enjoyed both sessions that seemed to…

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francesbell • November 26, 2011

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Digital literacies in HE : constructive dialogue between teachers and students

Digital literacies are relevant to anyone who works, learns and plays in the digital media landscape – most of us want to do all those things as well as we can. It’s quite difficult to some up with a simple definition of digital literacies – in fact Doug Belshaw has come up with a whole…

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francesbell • October 21, 2011

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Comment for Kevin Stranack

I just tried (twice) to post a comment on Kevin Stranack’s blog  but failed twice. His post is at http://stranack.ca/2011/09/25/transitioning-journals-to-open/ My comments was: Already we have a connection Kevin.  I am co-editor of Research in Learning technology – journal for Association Learning Technology that will be Open Access from Jan 1 2012. ALT’s Chief Exec…

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francesbell • September 25, 2011

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Orienting myself to the Change 11 MOOC

I have signed up to the Change11 MOOC and feeling a little bit wary as day job is intensely busy and I am not sure I can make the commitment.  Of course, the reason that I have signed up is that I had such an interesting experience at CCK08 (and a few interesting moments at…

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francesbell • September 14, 2011

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