November 6, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I think that, more than anything, doing Equity Unbound while teaching my course this semester helped me stay “in the zone” for the course. There has not been as much interaction with folks outside my institution as I wanted.. but … Continue reading
November 3, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I have been thinking recently about how it would be so wonderful to work in an environment where my orientation towards social justice was valued, appreciated, supported (in a real not lip-service sort of way) rather than tolerated and occasionally … Continue reading
October 31, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I tweeted out this quote from a response to a Hypothes.is annotation of mine (check out this month’s article on healing and trauma in the classroom btw): Is this you @taykendesign who wrote "We need more Bali (i.e. global perspective) … Continue reading
September 11, 2018
by Maha Bali
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Cheryl Brown (South African colleague currently in NZ at U of Canterbury) recently invited me to give a talk to folks at her institution around the topic of critical digital citizenship (based around my ideas of emhasizing empathy and social … Continue reading
September 1, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I might be really weird or immature, but my main reaction to becoming ill was not to relax and slow down, but rather to push myself to keep living my life as if everything is normal. But it is not. … Continue reading
August 22, 2018
by Maha Bali
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(Note i keep updating this post) I was kinda waiting to get a clearer picture of what I wanna do in this course, but what the heck? Since when do I share fully complete and polished ideas? Every single time … Continue reading
August 8, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I was re-reading the Audrey Test which Audrey Watters wrote to guide critical questions around #edtech. So I just realized I could basically design a course project around @audreywatters Audrey Test for #edtech where students explored all the questions in … Continue reading
July 21, 2018
by Maha Bali
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We had a really deep and thoughtful discussion today at #Wikimania in Cape Town – it was another of our hybrid conference sessions with a similar group of people we’ve been having throughout the year (people including Christian Friedrich, Taskeen … Continue reading
July 21, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I watched this video by Trevor Noah, reflecting on the reaction of the French ambassador to his joke about Africa winning the world cup. It reminded me a lot of my recent blogpost (written while preparing for my Emerge Africa … Continue reading
July 15, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I give a keynote at the e/Merge Africa conference in a couple days inshallah (Tues July 17 at 2pm South Africa time, noon GMT) – slides open for comment a couple of blogposts ago. I was watching Tutaleni Asino’s keynote … Continue reading