We have a new Student blog for CCR
January 2010. A new year begins. A new decade begins.
The CCR project has a new student blog.
Thanks to Chris Alfano for setting it up under an unbelievable time crunch. We had to do it though - we were being spammed like mad, with robots and bots and junk emails interfering with the good work of global learning and intercultural competencies....
But now, we have a new CCR blog, and a great beginning to 2010.
Here's what Chris wrote in launching the new student blog:
"If you're new to CCR, you should know that we are a teaching and research project based out of Stanford University that connects students and teachers across the globe through video conferencing and blogging activites. We began in partnership with Orebro University in Sweden in 2005 with a research grant from the Wallenberg Learning Network, and since that time have expanded to also work with Uppsala University (Sweden), American University in Cairo (Egypt), University of Sydney (Australia), and institutions in Singapore, Russia, Switzerland, and also schools across the U.S. You can visit our previous blog at ccr.stanford.edu/blog/ to look over all the blogging our students and participants have done over the span of 3 years. For more information about the project in general, please visit our webpage at ccr.stanford.edu."
I'll echo Chris's welcome: Please feel free to visit our blog, read through this, our instructor blog, and jump into the conversation by commenting. We are dedicated to promoting conversations across cultures and nations as a way of developing stronger intercultural competencies.
I won't add the line "all voices are welcome" because I don't want spam - and I apologize to all our faculty partners and students whose posts have received spam in the past. However, we are open to conversation and have great hopes for a fresh start in 2010!
Warmly,
Alyssa