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London, day 6: A History of the World, no glasses

August 21st, 2009by Randy Zwitch · 1 Comment · Book Review, Residency 1: London

Of all the things that happened today, clearly the highlight was listening to Mr. Tom Standage deliver a speech on his book “A History of the World in 6 glasses”.  For those of you who have kept up with my postings, you’ll know that I quite enjoyed this book, as it delivers the history of [...]

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London, day 5: The Culture Dash, part 1.

August 20th, 2009by Randy Zwitch · 1 Comment · Residency 1: London

The Culture Dash.  Armed with a Flip camera, a brain full of misconceptions, and a Underground map, the team started our journey by outlining our topic:  The effect of Princess Diana on British culture. To be sure, with the requirement of a five minute video due in week 7 relating our experiences into social frameworks, [...]

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CCL: Rich Media blog

August 7th, 2009by Randy Zwitch · 1 Comment · Pre-reading: London

If it’s Friday night, it must mean…more studying!
Tonight, I spent a bit of time reviewing the “rich media” portion of the CCL pre-reading.  Here, Profs. Boulding and O’Driscoll have provided a compilation of videos and interactive tools to augment the cultural and anthropological readings.  Specifically, the videos focus on two areas:  the research of Dr. [...]

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