Flickr Find of the Week: Isabel Allende and the Dalai Lama

Isabel Allende and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, originally uploaded by Bill Liao.

For our first Flickr Find of the Week this semester, how would you have like to have dinner with Chilean writer Isabel Allende and the Dalai Lama? As with all FFofW images, this great pic is shared with a Creative Commons license, this one by Bill Liao. A CC license is a type of copyright by which the creator declares his or her wish that their work be shared openly. Thanks, Bill!

Those of you who attended our Welcome Week celebration got to watch and discuss Allende's Tales of Passion TED Talk. If you weren't there, catch up on what you missed below. TED shares our commitment to the open exchange of ideas!

First Week Events in the LRC!

Come get your Wimba and your Welcome Week on in the Language Lab!

Monday, Aug 24 10:00-12:00: McGraw Hill's Spanish line on Quia.
Monday, Aug 24 12:00-4:00: Eat & Greet with TED Talks from Allende, Davis + Pinker.

Tuesday, Aug 25 2:00-3:00: Wimba (Online) Workshop
Tuesday, Aug 25 3:00-4:00: Wimba (via WebCT) Workshop

Thursday, Aug 27 9:00-11:00: Open Session on Wimba + Audacity

Come join us and learn something!

Ukraine's Got Talent

Below is an amazing sand painting performance by Ukraine's Got Talent winner Kseniya Simonova. If your Ukrainian is rusty or you're too in awe of the images to follow the story they weave, the animation is a tribute to the Ukrainians who perished in World War II. It's no wonder there's hardly a dry eye in the audience.