September 28, 2020 Coming to America: Stories and Conversations Across Generations About Immigration What IF…? Online Community Conversation Series: Coming To America - Fall 2020 The Interactivity Foundation (IF) has partnered with the Friends of India Association and the Diversity Relations Council at Leisure...
September 28, 2020 What IF…? The Future of Sports and Fitness–the First of Four Conversations What are different ways that sports have meaning for us, whether at a personal level or a broader societal level? The pandemic has made a lot of us think about what's...
September 23, 2020 Collaborative Credit? Shared credit as a way to foster genuine collaboration As students entered the classroom, there sat their professor, Walt Jenkins, playing The House of the Rising Sun through the sound system....
September 16, 2020 Collaborative Salads? (Part Two) Discovering lessons for effective collaboration “At the end of our last class, I asked you to come up with lessons about collaborative practices from the salad recipe experience,” Monica Weekly said...
September 9, 2020 Collaborative Salads? (Part One) Collaboration as more than a collection of competing efforts “Before we start with our regular small group discussions in class, I want to help you learn what can make collaborative discussions...
September 2, 2020 Breakthrough Facilitation How can we help students become breakthrough facilitators? Cathy began her office hour visit with some hesitation, “Dr. Sperios, I didn’t want to sound like I’m grade-grubbing, but I don’t understand...
August 26, 2020 Cordon Bleu Discussion Preparation Preparing Discussions Like Preparing a Fine Meal "Before I entered the academy, I was a Cordon Bleu chef,” so began Henri Durand, assistant professor of Communication Studies. “This class is designed...
August 24, 2020 Toward a Safer, More Beloved Community “But the end [of nonviolent protest] is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type...
August 19, 2020 The Future of Sports & Fitness: an online, 4-session community conversation series Join us this fall for What IF…? Online Community Conversations: The Future of Sports and Fitness, a four-part exploratory conversation series Imagine a future without sports and fitness activities. What would...