Showing posts with label discussion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discussion. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Bloggingheads.tv

Hi All,

Just came across an interesting site that I never heard of before.  Bloggingheads.tv.

What is Bloggingheads you ask?  Great question.  And here's the answer!  Blogginheads.tv was founded in 2005 as the first website devoted to split screen video dialogue about politics and ideas.  Its early mission statement was to " be in one sense an unusual expression of the Internet.  Almost all blogs have a dominant ideology and a fairly homogeneous comments section to match. We pride ourselves on having a diversity of views in our diavlogs and an accordingly diverse comments section, where thoughtful disagreement is expressed in civil terms. (OK, usually thoughtful, and usually civil.)”

So there you have it...video discussions on various political topics and on 'big topic' issues.  Click on this link to learn more about the background of Bloggingheads.tv. 

The Bloggingheads.tv homepage has links to various programs like: Culturally Determined, DMZ, Drezburt, Foreign Entanglements, Glenn Show, Global Dispatches, Rational Actors, Science Faction and the Wright Show.

Other informative links include a whole bunch of archived programs on various topics: 10th Anniversary, 5th Anniversary, Democracy in America, Free Will, Washington Squares, Pros and Conn, Values Added and The Score.

The format of the videos is basically two people talking on a split screen.  Videos are roughly anywhere from 45 minutes to over an hour on the topic you chose.  Sometimes video quality is 'less than stellar' but you will get the idea that the blogging heads are talking about.

Its an interesting take on the 21st century of free speech.  People are talking and videoing on a whole wide variety of important topics!  Basically this is like talking on a stump in front of a crowd in the eighteenth or nineteenth century!

Enjoy the videos and the discussions and the wide variety of topics!

Regards,
Stu

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Library Book Club

Hi All,

I don't know if you know this or not, but the library has a book club.  Yep. We do. Actually we have two book clubs.

The first book club meets on Monday morning at 10:30am and second book club meets on Monday nights at 7pm.

Click on this link to the Farmingdale Public Library Eventkeeper calendar.  You'll be able to search for all future book club events - and other library related events for that matter. 

Click on this link from the Iowa Center for the Book for an insightful article on 'How to Begin and Lead a Book Discussion Group'.  This is a great gateway article as it includes 'Great Resources to Get Started' and 'Articles' about book discussion groups. 

Here is just a smattering of the variety of links:
1. American Library Association - Book Discussion Groups  - link has a long article about book discussion groups.  Headings include 'Resources for Getting Started', 'Selected Print Resources', 'Websites', 'Quick Start Guide', 'How to Structure a Meeting', 'Basic Ground Rules', 'Meeting Format', 'How to Select Books' and 'If You're Leading a Book Discussion'. Insightful, unbiased, clearly written and very, very authoritative!

2. Seattle Public Library - Book Group How-To's - Has sections on 'Choosing Good Books for Discussion', 'Leading the Discussion' and 'Learning More About an Author'.

3. About.com - Top 5 Resources For Starting and Maintaining a Successful Book Club - entry has topics like 'How to Start a Book Club?', 'How to Lead a Book Club Discussion?', 'How to Structure a Book Club Dinner Group?', 'Ready-to-Go Book Club Discussion Questions', and 'One Year Book Club Reading List'.

So there you have it....3 great links on how to start, maintain and grow a book discussion group!

Good luck and regards,
Stu