Friday, January 30, 2009

Jake Larson's photos from Costa Rica and Panama

The first photo is of Molly Levine receiving a temporary tattoo from an indigenous woman (member of the Embera Tribe) in Panama.

Sophie Kirpan holds a small child on her shoulders during a parade in Barrio Jesus, Costa Rica.

Marie Grover's photo in Japan

The included photo was taken of two Global College students trying on traditional Japanese clothing, 'Kimono', at the Kyoto Costume Museum in Kyoto, Japan. The students in the picture include: (on the left) Marie Grover, and (on the right/center) Alexandra Margosian.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Lizzie Burrow's photos in Ecuador and China

Nadia Pareja learns to use a traditional weaving loom in Ecuador.

Alex Bowe pictured rests after he climbing up the Great Wall of China.

Amy Johnson's photo from CRC


The advantage of a Global College (Friends World Program) education: deep immersion on local soil! Lizzie Burrows, working on her CRC portfolio, Fall 2008.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

January's Photo Contest Guidelines

Global College Photo Contest, January 2009

Description:
With the hopes of contributing to our Global College community through sharing pictures, a photo contest will be held monthly during the two semesters of the 08/09 academic school year.
December Winner:
-Jake Larson’s photos from Panama are the winners for the Photo Contest in December. Congratulations Jake! You will receive a $25 gift certificate to www.Amazon.com. Please visit http://globalcollegephotocontest.blogspot.com/ to see Jake’s photos, along with all the amazing photos that were submitted for the Photo Contest. You can also share this blog link with friends and family.

January Theme:
-Pictures of Global College student(s)! The winner’s pictures of the January Photo Contest will be used on Global College’s new bookmark that will be used in advertising/marketing.

Deadline:
-Pictures must be emailed to Susana.Smith@liu.edu on or before January 30th, 2009. Please only send one email with either one or two pictures.

Guidelines:
-The FILE OF the photo must be labeled include the photographer’s name & date of photo.
-One person can submit one to two photos per contest.
-There will be one photo contest per month, during the Fall and Spring semester, for a total of eight photo contest during the 08/09 academic school year.
-Global College students and staff can participate.
-There will be one winner per contest.
-The Global College listserve will be used to announce each monthly photo contest, the contest’s theme and the contest’s deadline.
-Each Global College center will post a flyer to announce each monthly photo contest, the contest’s theme and the contest’s deadline.
-The Global College listserve will be used to announce the winner each month.
-Photos must be in “Jpeg” format.
-Photos must be 200 DPI (Dots per Inch), but preferably 300.
-All contributed photos will be posted on http://globalcollegephotocontest.blogspot.com/.
- Every picture should come with a one sentence description outlining where it was taken and what captivated the photographer to take the picture.
-Photos must be appropriate, so no profanity, nudity or vulgarity.
-Photos must be emailed to Susana.Smith@liu.edu on or before the monthly deadlines.
-By submitting photos, the photographer is giving permission for Global College to use the picture(s) to share with the Global College community, for marketing purposes and to be posted on the internet.
-All submitted photos must be from an experience while studying with Global College.

Reward:
-The photographer of the winning photo will receive a $25 gift certificate to www.amazon.com

Questions:
-Contact Susana.Smith@liu.edu

Monday, January 5, 2009

Susan E Smith's photos from Ecuador

This first picture is taken in Ecuador when we went to the Amazon to stay with an indigenous community that is learning about sustainable eco-tourism. In this picture, Global College students are teaching local Quechua children a game after the children taught us one of their traditional games. Sharing...

This second picture is taken in the Amazon of Ecuador as well. Global College students are helping a local indigenous person with the tedious process of degraining dried corn that will then be mashed into powder for cooking tortillas. This process would normally take a person well over a day, however it only took an hour with all the help of the Global College students. Giving...