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X-Culture Research Hackathon Preview Webinar
Wednesday, July 12 11 am to 12 noon (EST New York time zone) iCalendar • Google Calendar • Outlook • Outlook Online Presenters Vas Taras X-Culture Hackathon Attendees Topics Program overview Data overview How to download the data Q&A
Seminole Gaming / Hard Rock International 2
Monday, July 10 11 am to 12 noon (EST New York time zone) Presenters Mr. Jimbo Osceola Seminole Gaming Executive Director for Hospitality Seminole Tribe Counsel Member Dr. Leilani Baumanis Professor, Johnson & Wales University X-Culture Symposium Program Director Topics Further overview of the business model of Seminole Gaming and the X-Culture Challenge Questions and…
X-Culture Photography Tradition and Symbolism
A true member of the X-Culture family poses for a photo with an “X”.
The “X” comes in a variety of forms, each with its hidden meaning and mythology.
Nobody knows how the “X” made its way into the X-Culture photos.
The first known X-Photo dates October 14, 2013. It is a class of Vilnius University students who took part in X-Culture in 2013-2b.
Nobody at the admin office recognized the deep meaning of the “X” symbol in the photo and it was lost in our archives. Until it was rediscovered a few years later after the “X” had become part of the X-Culture mythology and symbolism.
Transportation Challenge at the X-Culture Symposium
As we are preparing for the upcoming X-Culture Symposium in Miami, we encountered a peculiar problem: Transportation from the airport to the JWU where the Symposium will take place. An Uber will cost abouut $15, and a regular taxi can be up to $25 for the ride, quite expensive for a student. Public transport (bus,…
Professional consultants or Crowd-sourcing?
Experts wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica, and it ruled for 250 years. Then amateurs wrote Wikipedia. I was recently asked to talk about when it is better to hire an expert, and when it is better to crowd-source the task. Here is what I have to say about that:
Seminole Gaming / Hard Rock International
Thursday, June 22 9 to 10 am (EST New York time zone) Presenters Mr. Jimbo Osceola Seminole Gaming Executive Director for Hospitality Seminole Tribe Counsel Member Dr. Leilani Baumanis Professor, Johnson & Wales University X-Culture Symposium Program Director Topics Introduction and review of the business model of Seminole Gaming Hard Rock International in the Seminole…
Unique X-Culture Challenges with Photos (And Possible Solutions)
X-Culture has a unique problem. It’s hard to make photos “about” X-Culture. It’s easy to have photos “about” a business, or “about” a university. You take photos of the office building, or campus, or your employees in a conference room, or your product, or students in a classroom. That won’t work for X-Culture. We have…
X-Culture Alumni: “I can do that!”
Story by Terry Gallagher Dr. Taras, This past semester I took International Business under the tutelage of Professor Lynden. In that class I was enrolled in your “project” called X-Culture. Through the process of writing the report due at the end of the class, it never clicked with me what exactly we were doing. As an…
Students are very happy with the 2017-1 round of X-Culture
The 2017-1 round of X-Culture is over and here are some satisfaction statistics from the almost 5,000 students who participated this time. Overall peer evaluations averaged around 4.0=”Good”. As you see, a small percent of the students got low peer evaluations, but the vast majority (about 85%) are above “OK” and most are in the…
HOW I READ 50 BOOKS PER YEAR BY SPENDING 0 (zero) EXTRA MINUTES ON READING
Confession: I am an audio book addict. I listen to books all the time: when I bike, drive, in the gym, mow grass, clean my house, do laundry, repairs my house, jog, cook, take shower, and even swim. In fact, I can’t do some things without an audio book. E.g., my bike won’t move until…