September 28, 2018 New Guidebook! Agri-Culture & The Future of Farming Don’t know what to discuss at Thanksgiving dinner? Terrified of talking about current events? Breathe easy. We’ve got you covered. Invite your family to discuss Agri-Culture & The Future of...
September 27, 2018 Future of Sports and Society—Discussion Guide Ready for a Test Drive What would the future look like if there were no sports? What would be missing in a society without sports? Those questions kicked off IF’s project on the Future of...
September 27, 2018 Join IF at the NCDD! All of the IF Fellows will participate in the 8th National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation. It will take place in Denver, Colorado, November 2-4, 2018. IF has participated in...
September 26, 2018 Student-Facilitated Discussion Teams in Undergraduate Research Courses at UAB Suppose you’re interested in teaching a team-based undergraduate research course. You might be wondering how to structure the class experience so that students learn how to collaborate productively by harnessing...
September 24, 2018 USATalk/CivNet Progress Update Since the last newsletter the USATalk/CivNet team continued making important strides toward developing the web’s first integrated collaborative platform supported by a network of organizations. Helped along by IF’s first sizeable...
July 10, 2018 IF Trained Summer Camp Councilors The Interactivity Foundation partnered with the National Building Museum (NBM) to train summer camp councilors how to use IF’s interactive small group exploratory discussion method in their upcoming summer camp....
July 9, 2018 Guns and Good Neighbors A colleague asked me if I might be interested in participating in the April 2018 national Week of Conversation and might I also be interested in organizing a “gun discussion”?...
July 9, 2018 USATalk/CivNet Continues to Move Forward IF's co-venture to build an integrated online partner supported by a network of civic organizations has made some important strides of late: The organization was formally incorporated as "EnCiv", but...
July 9, 2018 IF Learning Circle 2018 For the second summer, we met online with several faculty members who are teaching their courses using IF’s discussion method and/or discussion guides. We began by talking about IF courses...