Frances Bell

I noticed this on Steve Hyndman's blog (I track it through RSS as it's always good to keep an eye on where you are being misrepresented by selective quoting). I thought it might be a good idea for us to discuss here the relationship between forum activity and requirements for becoming a Moodle partner.
I had noticed for some time that certain partners were not active in the forums. Perhaps this is just a case of documentation lagging behind practice but I think it would be good to clarify any change in requirements, or just to clear this up if it is a misunderstanding.
I have great faith in our ability to do this, since I think the rather tortuous discussion that led to the Advertising Policy has had a good outcome in terms of practice (Moodle Partners and others) on this forum (I can't speak for all others).

I'm back from the conference now - tired but happy!
Keynotes were great - particularly Hans Rosling who climbed a step ladder for part of his talk - check out previous videos at http://www.gapminder.org


If you are interested in viewing and voting on the slams our workshop participants produced, you can check them out at http://digdivslam.wetpaint.com/page/View+Slams+and+vote+for+your+favourite

Next week, several hundred people from the UK and around the world are getting together to talk, listen and have fun whilst learning about learning technology and the Digital Divide at the ALT-C conference.
The keynote speakers are
David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab; Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southampton; and Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation.
You can watch the keynotes in real time, see web site for details http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/

With Helen Keegan, Josie Fraser and Cristina da Costa I am running a workshop called Learning about the Digital Divide, based a successful one we ran last year. The difference this year is that we are inviting people who can't be at the conference to join in.
If you have a 1-3 minute message or performance (we call it a slam) about the Digital Divide that you can record in digital media, then do join us. Details (including samples and resources) are at our wiki http://digdivslam.wetpaint.com/.
The deadline is midnight GMT Wednesday 10 September, and voting will start the next day.
We want to have a bit of serious fun - why not join us?

We all need stickers I think. Your thanks felt like an adult version of a sticker - I am encouraged

This made me think of a rewrite of the New Yorker cartoon
"Noone knows you are shutting up on the Internet" - maybe a picture of someone holding their hands above the keyboard.
Or is there a sssshhhh emoticon, a smily with fingers to lips?