Making The Announcement

By Florencina from Uruguay 1998

If it helps? No guarantees! Besides, it may also have other effects: Zeeshan's April 2004 invitation for a chat on "racism and war" caught the attention of Net Happenings, widely read by an international audience. Click to see what they "wrote".

The purpose of each debate must be well defined: to inform, to explain, to interpret, to defend a point of view, to negotiate collaboration, to inspire collaboration, to criticise, to motivate some action. Ideas for the agenda:

1. Identify and devine the problem, the objective. Emphasize importance, state causes, identify time issues
2. Analyze the problem (what, when, how, where, who). Facts, background, main causes, seriousness of situation
3. Discuss alternative solutions
4. Select solution
5. Make plan of action (where, when, who, how)
6. Spell check the agenda, and make it easily understandable for kids not speaking English as a first language

Tell your students to find a a topic for the debate that others out there are likely to find interesting. If they fail to do this, they risk being alone in their meeting rooms. Ask them for ideas about how to find such a topic.

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