About my Blogging

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I started blogging projects with my students during the year of 2003 and set up my first personal blog in January 2004. Some of the earliest platforms have already disappeared while some I managed to recover through Wayback Machine, as they were open, not on a closed institutional platform. My own blog beespace.net, which was … Read more

Pity the Nation

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Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran’s poem “Pity the Nation”, published posthumously in the book The Garden of the Prophet in 1933, inspired both English journalist Robert Fisk and Beat Generation poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. While Fisk’s book, eponymously titled “Pity the Nation” (1990), is an account of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war, Ferlinghetti’s thought-provoking poem (2006), in a riff on … Read more

Back to the Roots: some background

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Barbara Ganley’s (the bg from bgblogging) invitation to take part in the Guest Series: Food Stories: Memory, Culture, Perspective of her Open View Gardens project took me back in time and roused me from blogging torpor (slow-blogging would be an overstatement), challenging me to mobilize my almost forgotten composition skills. I first met Barbara online … Read more

Strange Correspondences and Grand Harmonies

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Like D’Arcy Norman in his post “Bags of Gold”, I have been pondering over Gardner’s figures of speech.  Over the 48 minutes the video lasts, I was constantly reminded of how “American” the pitch and rhetoric  sounded to me  and wondered how given cultural  icons/inferences influence this particular edtech sub-culture discourse and  practice and how … Read more

A Geo-Cultural Perspective

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As I browsed through and responded to the different introductions posted on the LAK11 Moodle forum, I noticed with satisfaction that many participants came from countries other than the US, UK and Canada, with a larger contingent than usual from non-English speaking countries in Europe, South America and Asia. As Stephen Downes mentioned in the … Read more

Riding these waves

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To celebrate my slow comeback to Beespace, I have (maybe too eagerly) enrolled in two courses which are totally different in scope: a) Jim Groom’s Digital Story Telling, a.k.a. #ds106  – a shot at creative madness, as Alan Levine puts it (well-illustrated by d’arcy norman) b) George Siemens (& all) Learning and Knowledge Analytics (#LAK11), … Read more

Goodbye 2010

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I took a hiatus on Beespace.  2010 was a year without posting or recording impressions here. I needed sanctuary,  nourishment , slow quality time to retreat, read, remix and reshape priorities. Coming back now, unhurriedly, comfortably and at my own pace. Goodbye 2010. I’d like to offer you “A Thank you Note”, a poem by … Read more

Welcome 2010!

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This is what the first day of 2010 looks like where I am. Impeccable weather to stay at home and reflect on the past and future decade and how to bring all this together to the present. Happy New Year everyone!