Welcome to the
Second Annual International Symposium,
June 9, 2008
an online global learning conference
An event made possible by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network (WGLN),
The Program in Rhetoric at Örebro University, and the Program in Writing
and Rhetoric at Stanford University.
CCR Project Overview and Goals
To design, implement, and evaluate a curriculum devoted to
developing intercultural competencies through effective
use of collaborative information and communication
technologies (ICTs)
To build meta-knowledge about the role that intercultural
competence and ICTs can play in global communication
and international relations
Theoretical Base (Goswami & Lovitt, Hawisher & Selfe)
Measure 1: Develop “Sensitivity and Consideration for Others”
Measure 2: Understand “Situated Knowledge” that is Global in Scope
CCR International Partners
CCR PARTNERS: USA
SWEDEN
PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS:CANADA
TAIWAN
EGYPT
MEXICO
SINGAPORE
KOREA
AUSTRALIA
WEST INDIES
RUSSIA
Pilot Year (2005-2006)
Connecting One Class
Örebro
Stanford
• Shared Theme: Cross-Cultural Rhetoric
• 1 Activity: Exchange of Research Presentations
Research Questions: Year 1 (2006-2007)
1. How can we teach students to communicate with intercultural
audiences in rhetorically effective ways?
2. How do technologically-rich learning spaces facilitate or inhibit
collaborative activities for global learning?
3. How can students best negotiate and learn about intercultural
perspectives through projects that rely on technology-mediated
communication and digital collaboration across countries?
Activities Year 1 (2006-2007)
Connecting One Class each Quarter
Örebro
Stanford
• Different Themes: Rhetorical
Theory & Cross-Cultural Rhetoric
• Focus on Globally-Distributed
Teams & Rhetorical Analysis
ACTIVITIES:
1. Cultural Identity Presentations
2. Oral Presentations of Research
3. Exchange of Rhetorical
Analysis Papers
4. Rhetorical Analysis of Political
Speeches
5. Analysis of writing practices
across institutions
6. Blogging about ads & websites
Research Questions: Year 2 (2007-2008)
1. How can we extend effective intercultural collaboration practices beyond
class-to-class settings to reach more students?
2. How can we maximize students’ self-directed learning through improved
use of technology (portable collaboration tools, work in pairs and teams,
asynchronous activities, creative project-based learning, and a
sustainable technology infrastructure)?
3. How can we best share knowledge and best practices with a broader
community?
Activities Year 2 (2007-2008)
Connecting Multiple Classes:
Workshop and Curriculum
Örebro University
Stanford University
Uppsala University
American University of Cairo
University of Sydney, Australia
National University of Singapore
ACTIVITIES:
• Create visual arguments
• Produce storyboards
• Author CCR lesson plans
• Pitch a team-based business
• Propose a commercial for an
alternate audience
•Blogging iterative feedback loop
•Visual products on blogs
Technological-Mediated Intercultural Pedagogy
Marratech
Synchronous
communication
Instant
Message
Blogging
CROSSCULTURAL
EXCHANGE
Wikis
E-mail
Flickr
Blackboard
Asynchronous
communication
Group Focus on Technology
• How can we use different ICTs for
cross-cultural exchanges?
• How does physical room design
and furniture/technology
configurations affect the crosscultural encounter?
• How do we balance synchronous
and asynchronous communications?
• How do questions of access and
infrastructure impact the
possibilities for intercultural
exchanges between academic
institutions?
Group Focus on Pedagogy and Global Learning
• How do you need to prepare
students to work effectively as
globally-distributed teams?
• How do you develop effective
lesson plans and class activities to
engage students in cross-cultural
dialogues?
• How to accommodate the
language barriers between
members of globally-distributed
teams?
• How do we create bonding
between members of globallydistributed teams?
Group Focus on New and Cultural Rhetorics
• How do we teach rhetoric in a
cross-cultural context?
• What forms of cultural rhetoric
do we know?
• How do we encounter different
traditions of rhetoric in the
classroom?
• Looking to the future, how would
our group like to develop the
theme of cross-cultural rhetoric in
our own context?
Group Focus on Intercultural Communication
• How might we foster intercultural
competencies in students and teachers?
• What theories of intercultural
communication inform our research and
our pedagogy?
• How can we facilitate the development
of global citizens and effective
collaboration in the ever-changing site
of intercultural exchange?
• Looking forward, what solutions might
we offer to the hegemony of the English
language and the dominance of western
world views?
Now Join a Group for
Globally-Distributed Panel Discussions
Type http://switchboard.stanford.edu into your Marratech address bar,
then click on the link for the appropriate room:
PEDAGOGY
RHETORIC
For Active Learning and
Pedagogy for Global
Learning Group
For New and Cultural
Rhetorics Group
INTERCULTURE
TECHNOLOGY
For Intercultural
Communication Group
For Technology &
Intercultural Exchanges
Group
If prompted to LEAVE or start a NEW session,
be sure to select LEAVE to avoid conflict issues with Marratech
Looking Ahead – Future Collaborations