WINTER
Member Learning 2014
"Member Learning"
RESOLVED
that EWB Queen's seeks to
rename these weekly sessions
"Activity" ?
"Workshop" ?
"Lab" ?
"Forum" ?
Winter Time Member LearninG
Look forward to
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Does EWB have conflicts of interest?
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Speaker Series -- professors Day, Ray, Lovelace
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Devs and the Environment
Looking back: Fall 2013
Presented important content? woo
Challenged members? meh?
Continued discussions? FAIL
Responsive to current events? FAIL
Aside: Poverty and Colonialism at Home
National Conference 2014
Rethink
Leadership, Partnership, and Entrepreneurship for Development
R&D
researching development, politics, and world issues, writing opinion pieces/research articles for student and ‘real life’ publications, and facilitating general intellectual discussions.
Tri-Chapter Retreat
Queens - Carleton - UOttawa
Friday, January 31
through
Sunday, January 2
Last Week:
Unstructured Discussion
"In the Shadow of Wounded Knee"
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/pine-ridge/fuller-text
Next Week:
Mining
this week
A
Very
Meta
Workshop
on running workshops
Facilitation
"Taking responsibility to ensure that a certain objective is met"
Question 1: How does promoting facilitation skills among EWBers benefit the organization?
- ml sessions
- youth venture
- gathering opinions relevant to a topic
- conflict resolution
- not including personal biases
- teamwork school/work/....
Perspectives are Important
The K-J Technique
or “affinity diagram”
The KJ-Technique allows groups to quickly reach a consensus on priorities of subjective, qualitative data.