- 12 or 15 minutes per team, plus 5 minutes for questions
- Everyone should speak at least a little
- Provide some visuals
- visuals for the team, not necessarily each individual
- can be PowerPoint, digital photos, website with graphics, video, poster, demonstration, and/or draw on board
- Describe key problems briefly (if not widely known)
- Focus on Local Solutions
September 29, 2008
Topic Team Presentation Guidelines
Posted by Michelle Merrill under guide, notices | Tags: presentations, teams, topics |[3] Comments
March 1, 2009 at 6:16 pm
There is a connection between Riane Eisler suggesting that any effort towards caring and caregiving in our society will help things to change systemically, and working on the local level in cooperative efforts, and our new president taking a fighting stand as a representative of the people of our country, saying that he represents us, not the few corporate leaders and top of the heap businessmen and wealthy. Our president is helping to lead us away from the top-down domination model that Eisler says we are working within. That help is significant, as it injects policies that can give us a nice push towards a more caring and equal society, and economics. It is a start. I read an article in the Sunday Mercury News about Obama’s willingness to fight for his new polilcies to become new laws. Also, online at Moveon.org, there is a list of things that Obama has accomplished with the package just passed, to ease some of the problems of an uncaring economics. I wonder, is anyone talking with Obama about “caring economics”? Sharon Rose
March 1, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I think that I am in a topic group about community and cooperative projects. I am reading The Real Wealth of Nations, and in the book,Riane Eisler encourages us all to talk about write and point out the underlying beliefs and values that our current policies and economics are based upon. I have been working on making changes, but in a more isolated way, running my own preschool. But maybe her suggestion could manifest in something as simple as town hall discussions as the start of community efforts, a way for groups of people to “get on the same page” with what can be done, not only on a local level, but on a larger scale, which starts within a community. Maybe we really can change the education system, instead of putting more policies on top of the domination system, we can transform it into a cooperative, caring system…maybe the time has come, and this crisis can be used to make large changes in our systems and organizations. Sharon Rose
February 27, 2009 at 12:03 am
Hello from Sharon Rose. I have my book, The Real Wealth of Nations, and I am now logged on. I am still working my way through this blog, not used to using one for a class. See you Monday!