Posted in Dialogue and Deliberation Models, NIF, deliberate on May 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m working with E3 Alliance and Austin Voices for Education and Youth on community-wide deliberations on the Achievement Gap. (More details later.) In preparing our slides to explain this project to the school superintendents who are joining with us, Rick Olmos at E3 created a graphic that shows how the issues are framed around three [...]
Posted in deliberate on February 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[I wrote this last November, but just now let it go. I'm not sure why I held on to it...not sure it's even worth sharing! But here it is. It's still timely.]
I live in a rural, upper middle-class community composed primarily of retired, religious republicans. It’s a stark contrast to many of the people I’ve [...]
Posted in Research, Technology, deliberate on February 13, 2007 | No Comments »
I posted this on my Graduate Library and Information Sciences course site for the Change Management course I teach online for the University of Illinois. It sparked quite a discussion so I offer it here on a non-password protected site. I thought I would bring it forward for additional consideration.
This article from the Austin-American Statesman [...]
Posted in Forums, History, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on December 3, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Texas Forums on Social Security
Originally uploaded by TexasTaylor.
[This is one of a series of postings featuring the history of Texas Forums prior to November 2006. These photos were retrieved for the NIF 25th anniversary celebration and are being posted here for those who are new to Texas Forums and want to know more about us. [...]
Posted in Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Forums, deliberate on December 1, 2006 | 2 Comments »
“What does it mean to be a citizen - of a community, of a country of a world?
If all those who called themselves Americans were in one room, what would we have in common?
What is our vision of the future?
These are just some of the questions being explored by the America Project & the 51st [...]
Posted in Democracy's Challenge, Forums, Virtual Workshops, deliberate on November 30, 2006 | No Comments »
In November, Texas Forums hosted two online events -a workshop on Civic Reflection and a discussion with the author of the report on Democracy’s Challenge: Reclaiming the Public’s Role forums.
These and other online workshops are archived on the new Opal Online Civic Engagement Archive Page! You can watch and hear the entire presentation including the [...]
Posted in Democracy's Challenge, deliberate on June 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Dr. David Matthews explained that politics began when a village faced a problem of a flood and the public decided “to move the damn village”. Today, politics has been construed as a system outside of the public’s hand: it is elite, exclusive, ineffective, untrustworthy, divisive and to be avoided in public discussion at the dinner [...]
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