{"id":99,"date":"2008-07-25T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-07-25T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T10:51:08","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-62-abu-dhabi-virtual-field-trip-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 62 +++ Abu Dhabi +++ virtual field trip +++ privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-99-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_062.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_062.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_062.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"Abu Dhabi_2198 by Michael Dawes, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tk_five_0\/2206506822\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2399\/2206506822_3d7201ddcd.jpg\" alt=\"Abu Dhabi_2198\" width=\"327\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>Today we are going to Dubai, the centre of the world, to which increasing numbers of tourists and business people are coming. How do you prepare the nationals of a very conservative society with fairly strict gender separation for these intercultural encounters? Canadian, Mark Karstad, instructional designer at <a href=\"http:\/\/dwc.hct.ac.ae\/\">Dubai Women&#8217;s College <\/a>for five years, decided to develop virtual fieldtrips to the USA, South Korea and Darfur amongst others through the virtual world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a>. The whole show is given over to exploring some of the many issues raised by this decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><strong>absolutely virtual:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Very few of the students at Dubai Women&#8217;s College take advantage of offers of foreign trips such as attending a trade conference in China. Mark Karstad, former instructional designer at the university, tried out the idea of virtual field trips using the online world Second Life. This enabled him to take his students to a range of safe destinations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\/servlet\/Satellite?c=Article_C&amp;pagename=Zone-English-News\/NWELayout&amp;cid=1196786035497\">Islam Online <\/a>and Darfur. It also enabled him to collaborate with a college in South Korea and the USA to enable virtual meetings with the students where for example the students came dressed in their national costumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">In Second Life an avatar, a sort of cartoon character, represents you as you move and interact in the online world. You choose what this avatar looks like and how it is dressed. How would the students of DWC choose to represent themselves? The answer was without their abayas and in the designer clothes which they wear underneath. As Mark describes it, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bling\">bling<\/a>,\u00a0meaning ostentatious jewellery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><strong>absolutely private:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">As a male employee in the women&#8217;s college Mark describes some of the norms he had to adhere to such as never coming into physical contact with the students, not even bumping into them on the stairs. He also describes how the students needed to have a chance to put on their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abaya\">abayas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/beautifulmuslimah.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/sheer-luxury-how-to-wrap-simple-shayla.html\">shaylas<\/a> before he entered the classroom. This meant that he had to knock and pause for word that it was safe for him to enter the room.<\/p>\n<p>So long! Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"EN-US;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\">The host of this show is:<a title=\"Anne Fox\" href=\"http:\/\/eduspaces.net\/annef\/weblog\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Fox<\/a><br \/>\nEditor: Peter Kron<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"EN-US;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_062.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The next show will be coming to you on 8 August from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a>\u00a0 in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are going to Dubai, the centre of the world, to which increasing numbers of tourists and business people are coming. 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