History of Humor

Theme: Until I have a partner in the project, the only theme is general historical topic. The region I work with will help to make the theme more specific. Main Goals: Would be to find a new understanding/different view of the event/person/treaty/or whatever else is the topic. Get a new Read More …

Global Public Health and Health Disparities

I'm looking for preferably more than one partner so that students can get the full collaborative experience of what health looks like across countries. I teach two courses in global health and it covers a wide area of topics (nutrition, infectious/chronic disease, pandemics, WASH, disability, etc.). I've done a four Read More …

Intercultural Dimensions of Teaching and Learning with Digital Media

In the upcoming summer semester I'll be teaching a course for preservice teachers with various disciplinary backgrounds at the university of Wuerzburg. It will address the nexus between intercultural and media-education and the goal is to foster the preservice-teachers media-related as well as intercultural competences. The seminar will start in Read More …

Project Ibunka 2020

A cross-cultural web exchange project, Project Ibunka 2020, Call for Participation Hello, again! I’m Masahito Watanabe, Wata, at Yokohama National University, Japan. I’m going to organize a new web-based intercultural exchange project, Ibunka 2020, again this year. “Ibunka” means “different cultures” in Japanese. This is a web-based bulletin board discussion Read More …

Pragmatic and Intercultural Communicative Competence

CLOSED This virtual exchange aims at improving Spanish-speaking students’ pragmatic and intercultural competence through the interaction with English-speaking students. They would carry out 6 tasks in pairs and an intercultural debate in groups. The platforms that we would like to use are Skype and MeWe. If the partner needs to Read More …

Criminal Justice

I am interested in linking with a class in criminal justice or law. I am very open to another discipline so if you have a class where justice can be the topic of the engagement, that would be wonderful as well. I believe that the cross cultural communication skills and Read More …

Comparing approaches to ecological issues

This Virtual Exchange is an online collaborative project that combines ecological themes and the use of online technologies in order to develop students’ linguistic, intercultural, digital skills as well as their ecological awareness. The exchange has been designed for students of a B2/C1 level in English and can be carried Read More …