July 28, 2009 Trying Out Citizen Discussions There are 3 focal areas for our activities in the Summer Institute: 1) learning the discussion process, 2) connecting this process to the classroom, and 3) connecting this process to...
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...
June 3, 2009 What is it that you do do? Forgive me my nod to Austin Powers (and Inspector Clouseau before him), but I realize you might find yourself wondering just what is it that we do in the Interactivity...
June 2, 2009 Conceptual Background on IF I'm uploading here a series of "Conceptual Essays" on IF and our approach to public discussion. The essays complement our other more hands-on documents by placing our work in a larger...
April 21, 2009 Guidebooks for Discussions The Foundation has published 3 guidebooks for facilitating discussion. You can download a pdf of these guidebooks by clicking on their titles below. Facilitation Guidebook (Jack Byrd, Jr., edited by Adolf...