[Cross posted]
The recent Public Library Association Conference featured a session titled, “The Dangerous Ideas”. The idea behind the session was to stimulate a conversation about adaptation and change by posing the question, “What if…?”
The presenters began by introducing Ten Dangerous Ideas:
1. What if we stopped cataloging?
2. What if we participated fully with the FBI in [...]
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[This report is being filed by Erin Kreeger, a member of Texas Forums, graduate of the Fielding Graduate University's Certification in Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement and an adviser to the University of Houston Downtown's Center for Public Deliberation. Erin will be an ongoing guest blogger for Texas Forums so check back often to hear [...]
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During our training session at UHD, several participants suggested additional resources and web sites of interest to our moderators. Here’s a smattering:
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation: Be sure to check out the National Conference scheduled for Austin October 3-5.
International Association of Facilitators
Fielding Graduate University Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Certification
Institute for Cultural Affairs
National Issues [...]
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At the UHD workshop on Day 1 we had people work in small groups to craft responses to challenges that a moderator might encounter. Tom Workman did a fabulous job of leading this exercise. I’m glad that we have a video recording so I can go back and harvest his pearls of wisdom.
People are just [...]
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I’ve asked Virginia York to take notes here of the debrief of the Everyday Deliberation exercise we are doing at UHD where people tell stories of a time when they had to make a difficult decision and deliberated personally. The participants work in triads. One person tells their story, another person is the questioner who [...]
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I am writing this from the University of Houston Downtown’s Center for Public Deliberation training for new moderators. For the past two months, I have been working with Windy Lawrence and Tom Workman, the co-directors of this new endeavor. We are finally doing our first training session for moderators in Houston. We have 25 participants [...]
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[Original article posted on January 15, 2008 4:00 PM [...]
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[cross-posted from the personal blog of Taylor Willingham]
I’ve been in a writer’s funk for over two weeks now, which is causing great headaches since I’m responsible for rewriting the Achievement Gap discussion guide here in Central Texas. I’m basing the framework on the National Issues Forums guide, but incorporating Texas data from E3 Alliance. I’m [...]
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Well I posted a diagram of an NIF framework earlier, but then someone with a good eye for design revised it to this. Much better
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I’m not much of a graphic designer, but pictures appeal to my learning style. So, I thought I’d share a couple of more graphics I use to help me think about the process of framing issues.
This is a graphic of the process of framing the privacy issue that I’ve been using with some colleagues from [...]
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