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Obama Book Club - How to Use Guide
Purpose
The purpose of the "How to Use Guide" is to give some basic pointers on how to use the guide from a participant and an organizer perspective. This document includes pointers on how to run the discussion both "face to face" and "virtually" throught this barack obama wiki and website.
Participant Guide.
A participant is anyone who wants to participate in the discussion and add content. This could be "face-to-face" and/or virtual. We have both types of participants in the Minneapolis Book Club.
1. Guiding Discussion Idea. Since particpants is a larger audience, I will start with some pointers for your involvement in both the "face to face" and "virtual" discussion. The goal of this book club is to help participants; a) learn about Barack Obama, and b) discuss the important topics of our day using the book as the framework. As we found in the first meeting, being open to each others ideas and not being afraid to state your opinions is very important for us to have true dialog on Barack and the issues of the day. However, we must also respect (ie empathy) for others which include participants, Barack, other candidates, and communities within our country. It is an interesting and challenging path to follow but it is a path worth following. Empathy (ie putting yourself in someone elses shoes) is a major topic in Obama Values Chapter and I think is an important guiding principle for the group yet not going overboard and worry about being "politically correct" that we can't have a true dialog about this issues facing our country.
2. How to Use the Obama Book Club Wiki. For those who have not used a wiki before, it is an easily updateable internet tool that we can use together to add our input, have interactive disucssions, and modify content if we have some new insight into an area discussed. As the creator, I have started off with a shell to this but ENCOURAGE & TRUST participants to add their content.
2.1 Obama Book Club Format Content. The content falls into 5 major areas:
* Book Page. There is a page for the overal book, (ex. The Audacity of Hope). This summaries high-level information about the book and links to the chapters and other relavant high level sources of information (ex like this "How to Use" page)
* Chapter Page. There is a page per chapter (ex. The Audactiy of Hope - Chapter #1 Republicans & Democrats). This is where partipants should spend time adding content that is meaningful to them. This includes;
- Summary. Add or change the summary to make more meaningful.
- Quotes & Meaningful Thoughts. A quote or concept that rang true or had meaning for
you.
- Answer a Question. Click on the link to Question Discussion (see below) to
respond/answer a question.
- New Question. Add a question. On each page I have tried to keep a blank question
that is setup. A new discussion page need to be created for each question. (See below)
- Actions. What actions should the campaign take nationally / locally / or personally.
Example in Constitution chapter actually personally sit down and read the constiution.
- References / External Links Section. Include reference text & external links for external
sources of information other than the book to help other people find additional information.
* Question Discussion Page. Each question has a discussion page (ex. The Audactiy of Hope - Chapter #1 Republicans & Democrats Question #3 Discussion). Participant can add their response/answer to the a question and/or reply to someone elese response/answer. True "virtual" dialog. Creating a Question Discussion Page, below are the steps;
- Open the Chapter Page associate with the question.
- Create a new page using the "add a new page" function in the Page Toolbox.
- Enter the page name with the following format
"Book Name-CH#n chapter name - Question #n Discusssion"
(ex. The Audacity of Hope-Ch#1 Republicans & Democrats - Question #3 Discussion)
Organizer Guide.
Who is an organizer? It is a person with the audacity to take trying to organize other people to discuss these books. In my own expeience it is primarily around getting the details laid out for the "face-to-face" or "virtual" discussion/meetings & facilitating this process. I will be providing more content here but please email me if you have questions (carlholmquist@yahoo.com).
The purpose of the "How to Use Guide" is to give some basic pointers on how to use the guide from a participant and an organizer perspective. This document includes pointers on how to run the discussion both "face to face" and "virtually" throught this barack obama wiki and website.
Participant Guide.
A participant is anyone who wants to participate in the discussion and add content. This could be "face-to-face" and/or virtual. We have both types of participants in the Minneapolis Book Club.
1. Guiding Discussion Idea. Since particpants is a larger audience, I will start with some pointers for your involvement in both the "face to face" and "virtual" discussion. The goal of this book club is to help participants; a) learn about Barack Obama, and b) discuss the important topics of our day using the book as the framework. As we found in the first meeting, being open to each others ideas and not being afraid to state your opinions is very important for us to have true dialog on Barack and the issues of the day. However, we must also respect (ie empathy) for others which include participants, Barack, other candidates, and communities within our country. It is an interesting and challenging path to follow but it is a path worth following. Empathy (ie putting yourself in someone elses shoes) is a major topic in Obama Values Chapter and I think is an important guiding principle for the group yet not going overboard and worry about being "politically correct" that we can't have a true dialog about this issues facing our country.
2. How to Use the Obama Book Club Wiki. For those who have not used a wiki before, it is an easily updateable internet tool that we can use together to add our input, have interactive disucssions, and modify content if we have some new insight into an area discussed. As the creator, I have started off with a shell to this but ENCOURAGE & TRUST participants to add their content.
2.1 Obama Book Club Format Content. The content falls into 5 major areas:
* Book Page. There is a page for the overal book, (ex. The Audacity of Hope). This summaries high-level information about the book and links to the chapters and other relavant high level sources of information (ex like this "How to Use" page)
* Chapter Page. There is a page per chapter (ex. The Audactiy of Hope - Chapter #1 Republicans & Democrats). This is where partipants should spend time adding content that is meaningful to them. This includes;
- Summary. Add or change the summary to make more meaningful.
- Quotes & Meaningful Thoughts. A quote or concept that rang true or had meaning for
you.
- Answer a Question. Click on the link to Question Discussion (see below) to
respond/answer a question.
- New Question. Add a question. On each page I have tried to keep a blank question
that is setup. A new discussion page need to be created for each question. (See below)
- Actions. What actions should the campaign take nationally / locally / or personally.
Example in Constitution chapter actually personally sit down and read the constiution.
- References / External Links Section. Include reference text & external links for external
sources of information other than the book to help other people find additional information.
* Question Discussion Page. Each question has a discussion page (ex. The Audactiy of Hope - Chapter #1 Republicans & Democrats Question #3 Discussion). Participant can add their response/answer to the a question and/or reply to someone elese response/answer. True "virtual" dialog. Creating a Question Discussion Page, below are the steps;
- Open the Chapter Page associate with the question.
- Create a new page using the "add a new page" function in the Page Toolbox.
- Enter the page name with the following format
"Book Name-CH#n chapter name - Question #n Discusssion"
(ex. The Audacity of Hope-Ch#1 Republicans & Democrats - Question #3 Discussion)
Organizer Guide.
Who is an organizer? It is a person with the audacity to take trying to organize other people to discuss these books. In my own expeience it is primarily around getting the details laid out for the "face-to-face" or "virtual" discussion/meetings & facilitating this process. I will be providing more content here but please email me if you have questions (carlholmquist@yahoo.com).
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