Here is a simple map of China, the planet's second largest country and the oldest continuously functioning civilization in all of world history.
Some historical context - a helpful 1959-2010 CHINA historical timeline from the BBC News Service (note the pro-Western bias.)
And here's a short video of the 2008 Olympics -Opening Ceremony - in Beijing.
My name is Dr. Rob Williams.
Here's a photo of me smashing a television with a 9 pound sledge maul.
Here's the television post-maul.
Here's an official but mercifully brief bio about me.
Dr. Rob Williams is a Vermont-based musician, historian, consultant, journalist, and media educator/maker who teaches F2F and online media and communications courses at Champlain College; co-manages a full-service multimedia marketing firm called HigherMind Mediaworks; edits and publishes a statewide independent news journal called Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence; co-owns and farms at Vermont Yak Company in the Mad River Valley, a farm business raising grass-fed yaks for meat and agri-tourism; and performs music with a pherocious acoustic power trio called The Phineas Gage Project. He also has two children and one wife he affectionately refers to as his "Viking Queen."
More personally, feel free to come and connect with me on Facebook and Twitter.
Please take a few minutes below to tell us about yourself!
Here are THREE questions to answer:
1. Where are you from? State or province, and town?
2. Why are you interested in taking a course on and traveling to China? Be specific.
3. What vision do you have for your future, professionally?
Welcome aboard! I look forward to working with you.
Howdy all
ReplyDelete1. Pelham, New York (right outside the city)
2. I got interested in this course because i wanted to see how people live outside of the United States first hand. Not just watch it in a Natgeo special. I traveled to Bhutan with a group of students this past summer and this experience only cemented my want to see more of the world and how they live.
3.(nope)
4. Professionally I don't know what I want to do but hopefully I will be able to figure it out before I graduate from this place.
1. South Burlington, VT. Yet I've lived all over Vermont. North Hero in the islands, Bolton Valley off a ski trail, Huntington middle of the woods.
ReplyDelete2.It first started from a tweet from Rob Williams asking if I'd like to dance on the great wall of China and get core credit and I thought "HELL YES!" then started drooling once i found out it was going to be a documentary. Combining two thing I love the multimedia factor of the course and traveling, there's no way i could let this opportunity pass.
3.Good question...