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
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
celular antropafago Originally uploaded by fbar. François Bar has just sent me a link to the Abaporu blog, part of a research project he is doing with Francis Pisani and Matt Weber on the appropriation of new technologies, more specifically mobile technology. Abaporu (aba = man; poru = to eat, in tupi-guarani) is also the … Read more
