I. 8:30/17.30 - Symposium Begins: Welcome from Project PIs and CCR Team. Introductions by
Participants.
Connect to Virtual Auditorium through: Marratech Room T217, linked through
http://emeeting.tech.oru.se:8000/
II. 9:00/18.00 CCR Overview of New Questions for Group Discussions
III. 9:15/18.15 Globally-Distributed Team discussion: Join with colleagues across the world to
discuss what interests you most: pedagogy, technology, rhetoric, or communication.
Active Learning & Pedagogy for 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 globally-distributed teams?
Connect by going to http://switchboard.stanford.edu and selecting the link for “Pedagogy”
Technology and Intercultural Exchanges.
 How can we use different ICTs (such as blogging, videoconferencing, wikis, etc.) for
cross-cultural exchanges?
 How do we balance synchronous (real time - video conferencing) and asynchronous
(time lag - blogging, e-mail) communications?
 How does physical room design and furniture/technology configurations affect the
cross-cultural encounter?
 How do questions of access and infrastructure impact the possibilities for intercultural
exchanges between academic institutions?
Connect by going to http://switchboard.stanford.edu and selecting the link for “Technology”
Rhetoric.
 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 we like to develop the theme of cross-cultural rhetoric
in our own individual institutional contexts?
Connect by going to http://switchboard.stanford.edu and selecting the link for “Rhetoric”
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?
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Looking forward, what solutions might we offer to the hegemony of English and the
dominance of western world views?
Connect by going to http://switchboard.stanford.edu and selecting the link for “Interculture”
IV. 10:15/19.15 Small Group Presentations & Reflections
Connect to Virtual Auditorium through: Marratech Room T217, linked through
http://emeeting.tech.oru.se:8000/
V. 10:45/ 19:45 Closing Remarks and Connections: PIs (Symposium chair) lead closing remarks
and invite participants to continue the collaboration in the future.
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Partnerships for the future?
Scholarly collaboration project?
Additional upcoming events?
VI. 11:00/20.00 Symposium Ends.