Author Archives: dswoboda

April 6, 2010

Losing Sight

During the last few weeks of my IF course, I have been struggling to understand just how well students are developing discussion and facilitation skills. Even though students have engaged in several weeks of discussion, some members dominate the conversation more than others, sometimes they talk over one another, some facilitators stick to their outline Read more »

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March 7, 2010

Integrating Course Content

By: dswoboda

I want to start my blog by stating that I have really benefited from reading the blogs and email messages my fellow IFers have been sending. It is nice to know that others are also struggling with issues of evaluating student learning, group management and incorporating content. I have been at this for four weeks Read more »

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February 14, 2010

Guiding Student Performance

By: dswoboda

My first week of simulating the IF process via my facilitation and notetaking for the class discussion went OK. It is a large group (around 40), and I made students responsible for taking turns speaking, building on each others’ comments, and making sure everyone spoke at least once. Since the first few weeks are about Read more »

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January 29, 2010

Setting up student groups

By: dswoboda

I have been doing a lot of thinking about how to set up student groups since I have watched the enrollment in the class I will be teaching starting next week grow from 7 to almost 50 students in the last month (not what I expected!). Given that I intend to have every student facilitate Read more »

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October 7, 2009

Using IF with a Group of Faculty

By: dswoboda

I wanted to share my recent experience about using the IF process with a group of faculty at my institution to discuss changing general education requirements. When I attended the 2009 Summer Institute, I considered how to implement IF into venues other than classroom settings or citizen discussions such as meetings of faculty committees or Read more »

Posted in Education | Tagged educational implications, facilitation, generating possibilities, higher education | 2 Comments

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