Anti-ACTA demonstration in Strasbourg, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Today sees demonstrations around the world to protest against ACTA, a so-called anti-copyright treaty negotiated in secret by the United States, which critics charge will limit the Internet even more than the…
Author: George Wood
I was born in California, but have lived in Sweden since 1975, working at Radio Sweden. I spent many years writing and presenting our program for shortwave listeners, “Sweden Calling DXers”. With the gradual phase-out of shortwave in favor of the Internet, I’ve since moved on to being our webmaster. My big claim to web fame has been that I was the first person in Sweden to post a radio program on the Internet, in 1994…the first person in Europe to post a radio program in English.
Social Networks
From “The Social Network” (Press photo from Sony/Columbia Tristar) Social networks have come to mean, in the computer sense, websites or platforms that people use to communicate with each other. They differ from e-mail or newsletters or RSS feeds in…
Computer Games as Education
All due respect to forums, Facebook and Twitter, a recent conference discussed using computer games for education. The January 30 issue of the “International Herald Tribune” reports from the Learning Without Frontiers conference in London. Bristol Univrersity neuroscientist Paul Howard-Jones…
Microblogging as an Educational Tool
One of the first assignments for the course in Social Media I am currently taking from Umeå University is to blog about the uses of microblogging in education. My first reaction was there wasn’t a whole lot, depending on your…
Social Media and Web 2.0
There will be some different posts on this blog over the next few months. While here on my leave of absence in Strasbourg I’ve been taking distance courses from Swedish universities. I took advantage of the course I took from…
Christmas (?) Window Decorations at Galeries Lafayette
Not completely sure what this has to do with Christmas.
Lucia Procession in Strasbourg
Church of St. Pierre, November 27, 2011. The annual First of Advent service held by the Swedish Club of Strasbourg for the Nordic community. Lucia is actually December 13, so this has to be one of the earliest Lucia processions…
The Christmas markets of Strasbourg have opened
The Christmas markets of Strasbourg have opened, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. The Capital of Christmas, Strasbourg, France, November 26, 2011. One of a dozen themed Christmas markets around the city, this one at Place Benjamin Zix, in La Petite France…
A Thanksgiving in Strasbourg
Meanwhile, today Radio Sweden reported on the growing popularity of turkey (a very non-traditional thing to eat) in Sweden.
Decorations French, American and Swedish
Christmas decorations at Patisserie Christian, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Amazing decorations at a very nice bakery/cafe. Apparently located at both 12 rue de l’ Outre and 17 Place du Temple Neuf (it’s on a corner, where a street runs into…