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October 04, 2007
2:52
Community spirit
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South Africa was great. I’m sorry to be leaving. The people are friendly, the country is beautiful and the opportunities are plentiful. Being both a first-world and a third-world country, it has huge opportunities, offers the right encouragement and generally has the infrastructure for entrepreneurs to do their thing. Yet, it’s still a country where the spirit [...]
September 28, 2007
3:08
Pictures from Cape Town area, South Africa
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The country is beautiful, and I’ll let these pictures speak for themselves. Click here for Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope Click here for Table Mountain Click here for wine country Click here for Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg
September 21, 2007
5:29
Comments from Tshwane students about blogging
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Reading the comments below that various students e-mailed me, you’ll easily see why this teaching gig has been so much fun and so rewarding. The comments are from students at the Pretoria West and Soshanguve campuses of Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. Blogging has allowed me to go where I never thought I’d go. [...]
September 18, 2007
3:06
It felt like Jurassic Park, with slightly smaller beasts
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My mascot Click here for more pictures from Kruger Park Kruger National Park, a wildlife park the size of Wales, is like the best Easter egg hunt you’ve ever been on. Remember as a kid when you would lift a pillow in the living room and find an egg, or look under a bush in the yard and [...]
2:58
Facebook in South Africa
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My students’ Internet skills range from those who are not quite sure what’s happening when they create a link from their blogs to another web page, to those who are looking for audio and video to add to their blogs and who have their own Facebook pages. Almost all of the students use a mobile social [...]
2:52
The countryside
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South Africa contains many of the landscapes familiar in the United States — and you don’t have to drive as far to see them. Cape Town is as beautiful (and fun, I’m told) as San Francisco. Johannesburg is South Africa’s New York City. Pretoria’s suburbs remind me of new suburbs nearPhoenix, Ariz. The desert areas here are like the [...]
2:50
The countryside
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South Africa contains many of the landscapes familiar in the United States — and you don’t have to drive as far to see them. Cape Town is as beautiful (and fun, I’m told) as San Francisco. Johannesburg is South Africa’s New York City. Pretoria’s suburbs remind me of new suburbs near Phoenix, Ariz. The desert areas here are like [...]
September 13, 2007
10:07
Teaching blogging
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Photos of my students on the Pretoria campus I’ve been having a fun teaching students here to create blogs using Blogger.com and create web pages using Adobe GoLive. It’s such a pleasure to see their smiles when they realize that what they have just done is on the web. A week before I got here, they went [...]
9:49
Science journalism conference
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Wednesday, the students at the Tshwane and the Soshanguve campuses of Tshwane University of Technology met on the downtown Arcadia campus for a daylong conference on science journalism. Pedro Diederichs, head of the journalism department, organized the conference as part of his expansion of the journalism department. His next hire will be a chair in [...]
September 11, 2007
9:41
South African lingo explained to a foreigner
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This was an e-mail sent to me by the head of the journalism department at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria: South African lingo explained to a foreigner Jawelnofine: This is another conversation fallback word. Derived from the four words “yes”, “well”, “no” (q.v.) and “fine”, it means roughly “how about that.” If your bank manager tells [...]

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