Stanford Daily, November 13, 2007
By Salone Kapur

Freshman and sophomore Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) students held a videoconference yesterday morning with students at Sweden’s Orebro University and Uppsala University. Students in Alyssa O’Brien’s “Cross Cultural Rhetoric” and Christine Alfano’s “Cultural Interfaces” spoke with the Swedish students as part of the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project, which was piloted last year.

In yesterday’s videoconference, groups of three Stanford students communicated in intimate groups with three Swedish students, aided by an interactive whiteboard and an instant message chat.

In addition to fostering cultural understanding and learning, the project carried significance in the realm of international relations... (Read the full Daily article on the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project).

Visit the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project website