When I contacted Vance Stevens to take part in the latest Absolutely Intercultural podcast I had in mind that we would explore the issues brought up in his publication Institutionalising Web 2.0 for learners in the Arab region but in the end rather than talking about different parts of the world we ended up spending most time on the importance of learning through being connected by your virtual network.
By sheer coincidence Elaine Hoter from Israel contacted me to tell me about a free online conference about technology and multiculturalism next Wednesday February 13 and we discovered that Vance Stevens is among their world class panel of speakers. The conference is in Arabic, Hebrew and English and among the other speakers in the English part of the conference there will also be Dr Sheila Geresh, Dr Janet Salmons and Dr Michelle Selinger.
We also had two winners of our CD competition which was lucky as I happened to have two copies of the CD to give away. I spoke to both winners. With Susanne Nyrop I explored the idea of anniversaries a little as this show represents our Golden anniversary! It turns out that Susanne had been to the first birthday celebrations of Denmark's first ever self-service supermarket. Our second winner, based in the Netherlands had a Danish name and turned out to be Danish. However her background was much more complicated than that and in talking about it I found out that it is possible to have triple nationality which was a great surprise to me.
Keywords: absolutely intercultural, Elaine Hoter, golden anniversary, Janet Salmons, Mai Berry Dahl, Michelle Selinger, Sheila Geresh, Susanne Nyrop, triple nationality, Vance Stevens
