All posts by Vas Taras
X-Culture Reports: Common Mistakes and Writing Tips
Wednesday, April 26 9 to 10 am (EST New York time zone) Topics Common problems in X-Culture reports Tips on writing a winning report Last-minute changes and updates a team can do to improve the report Presenters Robert Stephens Esi A. Elliot Amanda Bullough Volodymyr Rudov-Tsymbalist Henrik Mertens
Webinars: Our Experience and Remaining Challenges
Recorded video presentations and live webinars are an indispensable tool in a project like X-Culture. Over these years, we’ve experimental with about a dozen platforms, such as WebEx, Zoom, BlackBoard Elluminate, Skype Pro, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, Adobe Connect, and more. After much testing, we settled for
X-Culture Conference and Networking Event
Wow! It was great! We’ll do it every semester from now on. But let me start from the beginning. So, for a long time, I wanted to provide my students with an opportunity to present their reports at the end of the X-Culture project. Unfortunately, I have 150+ every semester, each on a different team….
Instructor Round Table Webinar: Performance Tracking and Grading
X-Culture Instructor Experience Sharing Webinar Time: Tuesday, April 11, 9 am (EST/New York) Presenters: Round table, everyone is invited as a panelist Topics: Overview of the performance indicators we already track Suggestions for other performance indicators we should track? Commonly used approaches to grading: good or bad and what’s better? Use of peer evaluations to identify…
Instructor Experience Sharing Webinar
X-Culture Instructor Experience Sharing Webinar Time: Wednesday, February 1, at 9 am (EST/New York) Presenters: Tim Muth Vas Taras Other instructors Topics: What is X-Culture and how it works; Benefits for students, instructors and business; What we expect from you in exchange; Corporate partner; Monitoring student performance ; Grading/Marking; Common challenges and best way to address them;…
Sacona Webinar
Webinar recorded: Wednesday, April 5, 10 am New York time zone (7:30 pm New Delhi time zone) Presenter: Sachin Bharadwaj, CEO
10 things I’ve learned (and 3 things I still don’t know) after X-Culture’s 2 years and 87K followers on Facebook
More X-Culture blog posts A company Facebook page could be a great tool for promoting your business, building a community, and getting useful input from your followers. But managing it could be quite challenging, and frustrating at times. Yesterday was exactly two years since I’ve created the X-Culture page. We now have 87,000 followers…
Full Circle: Former Students Now Professors
What a pleasant surprise. I have just received a letter from a student who participated in X-Culture in 2010. Our very first cohort. She writes, “Dear Dr. Taras, … I’m contacting you because of the great experienced I had in X-Culture as a student. I’m now a professor at Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara. I would…
Plastic Revolutions
Plastic Revolutions Plant Tour and Q&A March 31, 2017
Need Your Advice on Regional Representatives
One of the issues we’ve been struggling with for some time is regional representatives. It has become especially salient since we launched X-Culture Kids – and we seek your advice. At the first glance, X-Culture does not need regional representatives. Our very simple recruitment strategy has worked very well. The number of applications has been…