July 28, 2009 What We’ve Learned from Citizen Discussion IF discussion reports resulting from sanctuary discussion projects have been the “raw material” for dozens of organized citizen discussions over the last several years. The basic idea...
July 26, 2009 Diversifying Social Skills, Ryan’s Story Here's another story about student experiences with discussion facilitation from my colleague Jack Byrd (you can find his first entry on developing social confidence here). This story focuses on some...
July 23, 2009 Other Things to Do in Madison Hey Everyone, here is my updated listing of "Other Things to do in Madison". Other Activities - alpha listing I'll be sending you individual emails next week just to confirm arrival times...
July 23, 2009 Summer Institute Activities: Educational Connections So, what kinds of things will we be doing at the Summer Institute? In last week's posting, I noted that we’ll have 3 major focal areas: 1) learning the discussion...
July 16, 2009 The Story of Thomas, Developing Social Confidence My colleague Jack Byrd has decades of experience teaching discussion facilitation at WVU's School of Engineering. I've asked him to share some of his observations and stories about student experiences...
July 16, 2009 Our Activities at the Summer Institute Over the past several weeks, I've been walking you through the different stages of our discussion process. Now I'd like to focus on how we'll work on this in our...
July 13, 2009 Travel Planning & Other Logistics To: 2009 Summer Institute Faculty & Participating IF Fellows Re: Travel Planning & Other Logistics. Hey everyone, I'm about to take off for meetings in West Virginia for a couple of days,...
July 8, 2009 Exploring Consequences to Revise Possibilities Over the last several weeks I've been describing the Interactivity Foundation's approach to discussions in terms of three interactive stages. In previous entries I covered stage one (developing questions to...
July 4, 2009 (More than) 36 Hours in Madison, Wisconsin On the lighter side of the Summer Institute, I just happened to notice this little NY Times article on "36 Hours in Madison Wisconsin" and thought you might want to...