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Welcome to Cross-Cultural Rhetoric!. International Welcome Signs, Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden. International Welcome Signs, Newark Airport, New York, USA. Wallenberg Hall, SCIL. CCR = Cross-Cultural Rhetoric “Developing Intercultural Competencies through Collaborative Rhetoric”.
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Welcome to Cross-Cultural Rhetoric! International Welcome Signs, Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden International Welcome Signs, Newark Airport, New York, USA
Wallenberg Hall, SCIL CCR = Cross-Cultural Rhetoric “Developing Intercultural Competencies through Collaborative Rhetoric” The Wallenberg Global Learning Network(or WGLN) funded this project to produce new knowledge for best practices in technology-mediated pedagogy that focuses on learning “Cross-Cultural competencies” for use in a variety of educational settings.
Goals for Today’s Workshop November 12, 2007 • To get to know students from across the world and form global teams • To understand diverse cultural perspectives on texts • To learn how texts (artifacts/expressions) are situated rhetorically & culturally • To investigate the effect of technological pedagogy on small group work “Successful intercultural communication is a matter of highest importance if humankind and society are to survive.” -- Larry Samovar, Richard Porter, and Edwin McDaniel, Intercultural Communication