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The Plaid Avenger Presents: An Inside Look at the European Union

The Plaid Avenger, aka Professor John Boyer of Virginia Tech, is an international fighter for freedom, a defender of democracy, and is helping enlighten Semester at Sea students on a myriad of global issues. Always pushing the boundaries of how technology can be used to engage students and enhance the educational process, Professor Boyer has become renowned for developing teaching methods that allow for class sizes of up to 3,000 students. With his energetic teaching style and interactive presentations, Professor Boyer has quickly become a Fall 2013 voyage student favorite. Check out this special edition SAS Plaid Avenger video podcast, shot on location by his long time assistant and education technologist Katie Pritchard, about a recent field lab to the European Union.

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