December 23, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I am in a place right now that’s making me think of how numbers, supposedly the most objective, neutral things we use to express reality, are really relative and subjective in context. I’m talking about weather, people. But grades will … Continue reading
December 22, 2018
by Maha Bali
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This post is mainly about listening to faculty as faculty developers, and listening yo students as teachers. It is triggered by several things that happened the past couple of days. By someone telling me they always kept their facdev faculty-centered … Continue reading
December 18, 2018
by Maha Bali
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This article was originally published as the first of an ongoing series on faculty development on Keep Learning, a space initiated and co-facilitated by Maha Bali and Lee Skallerup Bessette and edited by Sean Michael Morris. Topic: critical faculty development. … Continue reading
December 11, 2018
by Maha Bali
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I fell in love with this quote from Women’s Ways of Knowing by Belenkey et al. I have read parts of this book and own it but have never read it in its entirety…and am reading parts now as I … Continue reading
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