Stanford and AUC Blog on Tourism
From January to March 2009, students in "The Rhetoric of Tourism" class at Stanford worked together with students in a rhetoric and writing class at the American University of Cairo on blog posts around the subject of tourism. On Stanford’s campus, we see tourists every day as they pour off tour buses at the Oval, walk around campus with a backwards-walking tour guide, and wander through the Rodin sculptures, cameras clicking. And so that's where the Stanford students started: by posting blog entries on the different forms of tourism we see on campus all the time. 
Later in the quarter, the students at Stanford and AUC worked together on perceived assumptions about tourism and tourist destinations in Egypt. The Stanford students started by exploring the cultural implications of Egyptian tourism as defined by the pyramids, and the Egyptian students responded by posting entries where they discussed living with touristic stereotypes. Digging deeper, we shared a rich discussion around an alternative and non-sanctioned form of tourism in Dahab, where the typical sort of sex tourism (men seeking women) is reversed (as women seek men). By working collaboratively on blog entries, the Stanford students worked hard to find an appropriate voice with which to communicate their ideas to the students in Egypt, ideas that demonstrated how some of their assumptions about cultural and gender norms were challenged by this tourism to Dahab.