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EXCHANGE
The Cross-Cultural
Rhetoric project pairs classes from international universities
to work together in globally-distributed teams through the use
of various information communictation technologies (ICTs), such
as Marratech video-conferencing, wikis, and collaborative blogging.
 During
2006-2007 academic year, the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project,
brought together Rhetoric students from Örebro University
met with students from Stanford University's Program in Writing
and Rhetoric through in-class video conferencing to participate
in a series of collaborative activities. Students worked together
closely on the rhetorical analysis of several different texts
-- including websites and political speeches -- exploring the
way that cultural difference influence how we interpret materials
and how we communicate materials to others.
The Orebro-Stanford
connection was fostered not only by bi-weekly webclasses, but
by participation on a collaborative blog where students continued
the conversations  begun
in class. In addition, the students examined differences in communication
styles by peer reviewing each other's writing, delivering presentations
to each other across Marratech, and even collaboratively producing
cultural texts (such as blog posts and scripted group presentations)
designed to elucidate interconnections and dissimilarities in
rhetorical styles.
During the 2007-2008
academic year, the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric project will once again
bring together students from Örebro and Stanford, but also
will be expanding to include participants from Uppsala University,
the University College of Södertörn, Umeå University,
National University of Singapore, and the University of Sydney.
For more information
on the project and the activities, see:
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