The Jerusalem Festival

This blog, an integral component of an International Studies 501 class I'm taking, seems to catch waaaay too many hits than I expected!! I like the idea, the idea of having my podium to the world and that it's required for the class. Given my major I'm very fond of technology and integrating hight-tech into education curricula. The web-based technology applied to this class focuses on writing. I think through this people will be able to better describe their attitudes and beliefs on topics.

On first impression, International Studies 501 in its' experimental stage seeks to study the 'folk-life' and culture of Jerusalem through history. Do I see any difficulties in this class? Yes-- plenty but I've been wrong in the past so only time can tell. Int Studies 501 (or the idea of it) as I've come to learn, was first introduced in the early 90s when a team of individuals representing Palestinians and Israelis were needed for a huge project. The objective was to represent Jerusalem in all its' entirety to Jim and Suzy living in/visiting DC in the Summer. It sparks my interest to learn more about the selection process for the team members working on this festival; we know they were mostly students like myself but how were they selected? I should probably poise this question later in class today, that's of course unless the professor reads this beforehand. On any event the festival turned out great!! For those of you who didn't hear about it Google 'Jerusalem national mall festival'. It was so real!! But In all seriousness the festival suffered from the 'money-shorts' syndrome the first year it was due (1992), it was then delayed another year but to no avail-- the shorts were just too short.