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!

Spanish OPIc Testing Today

A hearty bienvenidos to all the Spanish students taking the ACTFL Online Proficiency Interview test today.

Students who registered with Dr. Weyers to take the test today can login using the link below after signing in with Jerry Spiller in ECTR 225:


¡Suerte a todos!

Flickr Find of the Week: Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Originally uploaded by Fellowship of the Rich

We'd like to welcome faculty and staff back with a new feature: the Flickr Find of the Week. We'll be posting images showcasing language and culture from around the world, all found the best photo sharing and commenting website: Flickr. As if the wealth of contact available through Flickr's shared images isn't enough, each Flickr Find of the Week post will be found through the Creative Commons "some rights reserved" search. That means all the copyright holders of these images are putting their pictures up for sharing. Check out Creative Commons to learn more about alternative approaches to copyright, or just to find media that users are willing to share for your class and projects.

Our first FFotW is this beautiful shot of Tegucigalpa. We found this simply by searching for "Tegucigalpa" using the Creative Commons feature on Flickr's Advanced Search. This picture was posted by Flickr user Rich Evenhouse with a BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license, meaning it is free to use as long as Rich is attributed, it is not used commercially and no derivative works are based on it. But it's free to use for educational purposes in your class by good old Fair Use.

IberiaNature: A Guide to the Environment of Spain

Here's a fun find:

IberiaNature is an encyclopedic site on the flora and fauna of Spain. News and updates are available via their blog, en inglés y español.