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Author Archives: Barbara Dieu
Pity the Nation
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), … Continue reading
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Strange Correspondences and Grand Harmonies
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged cult of personality, digital facelift, ds106, gardner, social media
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Out of the box and off the hook
Juggling with two courses online which are so totally unrelated and switching from one mindframe to another is not easy. Who knows in this way different synapses and areas of the brain will be activated :-). At my age this … Continue reading
A Geo-Cultural Perspective
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 … Continue reading
Riding these waves
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 … Continue reading
Goodbye 2010
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 … Continue reading
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Welcome 2010!
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 … Continue reading
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How do YOU connect online?
A quick brainstorm on Wordle generated this Word Cloud to answer D’Arcy Norman’s question.
Tedx São Paulo
About a month ago, I submitted my answers to the questions posed by Tedx São Paulo in order to watch the first event, which expects to gather more than 600 people. We have been asked to answer a number of … Continue reading
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