[university-l] IN 108
Jurate Motiejunaite
jmotiejunaite at idebate.org
Wed Jul 5 20:49:46 CDT 2006
Hi everyone!
As Sanne is having problems with her email (must be far too hot in the
Netherlands), INN 108 is coming from me, Jurate.
a.. This week’s news start with reminders for the upcoming Youth Forum in
Romania. Do not forget that you can receive pre-forum assistance from our
trainers. Below you can find all the information about tournament
procedures, judging requirements as well as a new Citizen Journalism track
at the Forum.
b.. The biggest IDEA news is the issued call for IDEA Executive Director
position. If you are interested, email your application and CV to the
president of IDEA by July 15.
c.. Under our members’ news, we are featuring a report about activities in
Moldova. You are welcome to send your local news to Sanne at
sdekieviet at idebate.org
d.. As most IDEA events are already under way, we only have two upcoming
events to remind about in the Events’ section. Please submit your local
events for IDEA sanctioning, so we can announce them in our weekly.
Please submit your stories and country updates to Sanne at
sdekieviet at idebate.org.
Have a good week!
Join IDEA www.idebate.org/join
Support IDEA www.idebate.org/support
Discuss IDEA www.idebate.org/discussion
1. IDEA Youth Forum Romania (July 23 – August 5, 2006)
1.. Help from trainers!! – NEW
Here are a few updates on the Forum and what we want to do in order to
ensure you have a great educational experience.
Register as soon as possible. Once your team and coach are registered for
the Forum you will be put in contact with a team of trainers (who will more
than likely also be your trainers during the first labs). The trainers can
assist you with preparing your cases and answering any questions you might
have regarding research, argumentation concepts, etc. Don't miss this
opportunity, it's a wonderful way of getting a head start on your Forum
experience.
Second, once registered, you can gain access to the research packet that
will be used in preparing the second resolution "Resolved: that the world's
fresh water resources should be considered common property".
Finally, if you are the coach of a team attending the Forum, make sure to
check your email for more information regarding your responsibilities as a
coach/judge.
b. Citizen Journalism Workshop at Youth Media Forum, during Youth Forum
The Youth Media Forum will take place at the same time as the annual IDEA
Youth Forum in debate. Because the trainings conflict with each other,
registrants must choose to participate in the debate or
media program, but may NOT choose both.
APPLY for the 2006 IDEA Citizen Journalism Workshop NOW. Please note that
this is a selective event. We will be accepting up to 24 students for this
event based on merit and cannot guarantee acceptance to everyone.
The Citizen Journalism Workshop is for young people between 15 and 18 years
old. Participants will be trained and equipped to produce short,
youth-focused news segments that can be heard, and viewed by a large
international audience via the IDEA Citizen Journalism Workshop. For more
information please see the attached documents as well as the links below.
Also take a look at the Youth Media Forum at
http://www.idebate.org/discussion/view_forum.php?id=39
The aim of the Citizen Journalism Project is to help citizens find
important, interesting, and globally relevant stories in their own
communities, or those in other regions of the world, and give them the
skills and platform to share these stories with their peers around the
world. The project provides opportunities for enrichment in cultural
exchange, journalism, technology, photography and education. Thorough
initial trainings, participants, many of whom are youth and young adults,
are given the opportunity to become familiar with tools to create radio,
photo and video stories using a variety of open source computer technologies
and recording equipment that allows them to continue to report on stories in
their communities. For more information on what is Citizen Journalism visit
our site:
http://cj.bloomfield.edu/index.html
The language of instruction for this workshop will be English.
c. Have you checked the latest news? Check out the Forum’s website
Hi everyone,
If you are planning on coming to this year's IDEA Youth Forum, or just check
and see what we will be up to, check out the Forum's website at
http://www.ideayouthforum.org/
You'll be able to find extremely useful information there about registration
and the site for the Forum. But, even more important, you'll be able to meet
the trainers you will be working with and see the schedule for the camp as
well as get essential information about the topics and the tournaments.
Remember that the website is being constantly updated, so bookmark the page
and come back periodically.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there,
Ioana Cionea
d. Info from the tab room
The IDEA Youth Forum offers participants the opportunity to demonstrate
their skills and knowledge of debate during two tournaments. The debates
will be conducted in English. There will be three judges per round for
preliminary rounds and three or more judges for elimination rounds.
The IDEA Karl Popper Debate Championships will have four preliminary rounds.
The resolution to be debated throughout this tournament is “Resolved: that a
policy should be adopted to promote global compliance with the Convention on
the Rights of the Child“. The first round of the tournament is paired
randomly and sides are also assigned randomly in odd numbered rounds. Side
constraints operate in even numbered rounds. The novelty regarding
constraints is that teams will be constrained from meeting other teams from
the NGO they represent, rather than their country of origin as during
previous tournaments. Based on their record during preliminary rounds, teams
advance to elimination rounds. The first elimination round is octofinals.
The second tournament, the IDEA Karl Popper Debate Mixed Team Tournament,
will have six preliminary rounds.During this tournament the first two rounds
will be paired randomly. The same rules as for the first tournament operate
regarding sides assignment. Teams will be constrained from meeting other
teams from the lab they shared while preparing for the resolution. The first
eight teams advance to elimination rounds. The resolution to be debated is
“Resolved: that the world’s fresh water should be considered common property
“, except during quarterfinals, when teams will debate according to limited
preparation debate guidelines (more information on limited preparation
debate to come soon).
The teams competing in both tournaments need to be composed of three
members, with no possibility of replacing a member of the team during the
tournament. Should special circumstances occur that prevent a team member
from debating, the team needs to notify the tab room 30 minutes before a
round starts. The team will be allowed to debate the round, but deliver only
two of the total three speeches.
For more information on the tournaments, please consult the tab policies.
They will be available on the Youth Forum's
website(http://www.ideayouthforum.org/) shortly.
Ioana Cionea
Tournament Director
e. Attention to all judges for the IDEA Youth Forum
Following the adoption of the IDEA Standards, a new system of rating judges
will be applied for both tournaments at the IDEA Youth Forum.
The goal of the rating system is to ensure a well-balanced distribution of
judges for all panels, as well as attempt to improve the overall quality of
judging at the Forum. Judges will be rated and divided into three different
categories, A, B and C and these categories will be employed when assigning
judges for debates. The ratings will not be made public, but a judge can ask
the tournament director what his rating was. The method for determining the
ratings will consist of multiple criteria: judging philosophy, a
questionnaire that judges will complete upon their arrival as well as their
sample debate ballots. Ratings will be re-evaluated after the first
tournament.
Coaches, judges and trainers who plan to attend the IDEA Youth Forum are
urged to enter their judging philosophy in the Debate Tracker system prior
to the Forum
Try to offer as much information as possible about your previous experience,
especially in international settings, as well as the formats you, as a
judge, feel qualified to judge. In addition, judges should try to explain
what they generally take into account when making a decision (i.e. strength
of arguments) and any include any additional information on their judging
paradigms.
All judges will attend a demonstration debate upon their arrival at the
Forum and complete a debate ballot. Judges should use the ballot as an
opportunity to demonstrate their ability to provide educational comments,
and clear reasons for the decision they have reached.
Finally, there will be several judges' meeting prior to the first tournament
and throughout the Forum in which issues related to judging at the Forum
will be discussed.
Please feel free to consult the IDEA Standards document for more information
(you can find it on the IDEA Website www.idebate.org) or the tab room
policies for the Forum (available at http://www.ideayouthforum.org/ under
"Tournament info").
Ioana Cionea
Tournament Director
f. Registration opened!
The registration for IDEA Youth Forum 2006 has been opened! Please go to
www.ideayouthforum.org and register yourself and your team.
A short explanation: like last year, you can register for only the Karl
Popper World Tournament Championships, or the Forum (which is the training
and the mixed teams' tournament) or for the ENTIRE Forum! All payments
should be made before the Forum and the rate depends upon whether you or the
organization you represent is the member of IDEA or not.
Use this opportunity to participate in IDEA's most exciting international
event!
g. Visa issues – IMPORTANT
Countries which need visas to enter Romania are:
Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Georgia, Haiti,
Kazakhstan, Korea, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro,
Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
In order to get the visa, please contact the Romanian Embassy/ Consulate in
or closest to your country. Check out our website (www.ideayouthforum.org
under Visas) for the addresses of the Romanian Embassies. Ask them what
documents you need in order to get a visa. If we can help you to sort it
out, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Ms. Maria Sandu , Visa & Travel Coordinator
Email: mariavali.sandu at gmail.com
Phone: (+40)721.80.17.87
2. IDEA NEWS
1.. Call for Executive Director applications – NEW!!
IDEA is seeking a dynamic, motivated individual, committed to IDEA’s
mission, who will work as a full-time Executive Director. The Executive
Director must be willing to work in the Netherlands.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Executive Director is expected to:
· Help to develop and implement strategic plans and other decisions
adopted by the IDEA board of directors and members;
· Initiate and develop projects in which the Board decides that
IDEA should lead, participate, or otherwise contribute, whether such
projects are funded by IDEA or other parties;
· Be the primary contact person with donors, like the European
Commission, for donor sponsored projects;
· Monitor and manage all financial expenditures relating to IDEA,
oversee cash management and financial record keeping;
· Represent IDEA before potential and existing funders and/or
partners of IDEA; including governmental and non-governmental institutions;
· Develop and use appropriate methods for communicating with and
informing the members of IDEA about matters of interest to them;
· Hire and supervise staff and consultants needed to carry out IDEA
’s mission; See that all notices and reports are duly given or filed in
accordance with these Internal Regulations or as required by law;
· record and keep the minutes of all meetings of the General
Assembly, Board, and Committees in separate books to be kept for that
purpose;
· be custodian, along with the Auditor and the Attorney, of all
records, financial, legal and other, of IDEA;
· handle the day-to-day financial issues with the assistance of
IDEA’s staff, accountant, and auditor.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, the Executive Director must be able to
perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below
are representative of the experience required:
· A university degree in a relevant field;
· Experience in NGO management;
· Experience supervising employees and in project management;
· Experience in managing grants, including reporting;
· Experience in representing an NGO to government and business
leaders;
· Experience working with a volunteer board of directors;
· Experience corresponding via letters; memorandums and reports with
senior- level government and business officials.
While knowledge of debate is not a requirement for this job, and experience
in international education would is desirable.
LANGUAGE ABILITY
The Executive Director must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Another major European language is desirable, Dutch preferred.
TRAVEL
The Executive Director must be willing and able to travel, sometimes on
short notice, to attend meetings, administer events, etc. Travel may be
frequent.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
All interested candidates must send applications by e-mail to Migen Prifti
<mprifti at idebate.org>. Applications should include:
· A curriculum vitae,
· A letter of intent,
· Contact information for a minimum of 2 references, and
· Salary requirements.
The application deadline is 15 July 2006
b. Looking for bilingual trainers: Spanish and English Accreditation
Workshop for Trainers
July, 10 2006 - July 12, 2006 – Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
IDEA is expanding to Latin America and is looking for bilingual
Spanish/English debate trainers. Thus, IDEA will offer a 3-day training to
prepare a group of trainers capable of conducting debate instruction in
Latin America for diverse and exclusively Spanish speaking audiences.
PLEASE NOTE: You must fill out an Online Application using our Online
Application System (OAS) before registering for this event. You can find
this application at http://oas.idebate.org/idea under the name "Trainer
Accreditation Workshop". Once you have been accepted to attend you may
register for this event
Workshop topics will include:
- IDEA's goals in expansion to Latin America
- basics of teaching debate and debate formats
- the role of debate in society and debate with marginalized and
underrepresented communities
- debate as a vehicle to create youth leaders
Debaters, teachers, coaches and trainers who are fluent in both Spanish and
English and have experience in speech and debate are encouraged to apply.
Participants in the workshop will be asked to make a 10 - 15 minute
presentation on some aspect of debate theory or practice. Each participant
will make their presentation in both Spanish and English and answer
questions about the content of their lesson.
At the end of the training, participants will be evaluated and those who are
approved as Accredited IDEA trainers will become part of a pool of trainers
who will be periodically contacted to train debaters in Spanish speaking
countries – rates for these jobs will be provided on a case by case basis
Cost per participant is $75 which includes participation fee, food and
accommodation in double occupancy rooms
c. Debate online using IDEA’s new online discussion boards at
www.idebate.org.
In 1999, IDEA has created a unique format for online debates using email
which we are now attempting to port onto our discussion boards. IDEA has
already created a format for real time debates using popular chat programs
like Skype, Yahoo Messenger, etc., and now would like to supplement this
with text based eDebates that can span multiple time zones and don’t require
the bandwidth that real time debates would.
To participate in text based edebate, the first thing you’ll need to do, if
you haven’t done this already, is create a user ID for our web site. If you
need a login, it’s free and easy.
d. Call to our members! – Add information to the IDEA catalogue
Dear IDEA members,
At the moment IDEA is preparing a catalogue with IDEA activities, which the
staff
would like to use for IDEA promotion and fundraising. If you wish to add
specific projects, training modules, etc. developed in your country, please
send it to me following this format:
1. Name of activity
2. Target Group
3. Goals and length of training
4. Materials used
5. Languages
Email your contributions to Jurate at jmotiejunaite at idebate.org
3. IDEA MEMBER NEWS
Actvities in Moldova - NEW
First of all, the top upcoming event that starts on June 26 is:
The National Debate Forum that will last for 6 days and there will
be about 110 participants(high school and University students and
teachers. Traditionally, one team of debaters and a coach from
Moldova(Romania)are going
to join us. They have become an indispensable part of our annual
debate summer schools for more than 5 years already. In response, our
debaters also participate at various debate activities held in Romania
that are organized by ARDOR: national competitions, forums,etc.We
would like to bring to your attention a very interesting event that
took place in May in Bucharest. The Romanian television invited a
team from Chisinau to debate with a team from Ploieshti on TVR
channel 1. Both teams debated the topic related to environmental issues.
The Forum will be followed by a 3 - day National Academic Debate
Conference with 70 teachers -club coaches sharing their experience
about the role of debate in classes and in their communities.
Practically, all our debate clubs have become community
centres and, in the majority of cases, they are playing the leading
role in bringing positive changes to them. Various debate clubs have
been involved in community-based activities and sometimes these are
the only alternatives the kids can join to develop themselves and
to change the world around them.
Now we would like to write some words about the implementation of
another community linked project, namely,"School- as a community centre"
that started last
year and that is funded by Mott Foundation. The project is meant to
transform the schools into community centres developing a variety of
services for the community. It is implemented in 7 villages in
different parts of Moldova and our organization has been implementing
it alongside with 4 other organizations.We are proud that debate is
taking its proper place among different activities meant to strengthen
the civil society in Moldova. As a result of the implementation of
this project, 7 new debate clubs have joined our national network.
4. IDEA EVENTS
a. IDEA Summer Speech and Debate Institute Duino, Italy, June 30–July 14,
2006
IDEA's yearly international camp provides the opportunity for intensive
debate and speech preparation with the caring guidance of nationally
recognized veteran coaches within an international community of
students.There are two tracks of instruction at Duino:
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate & Speech Track The L-D workshop will be for
students wishing to work on 2006-2007 NFL debate topics. The Speech workshop
will cover instruction in Humor ous and Dramatic Interpretation, Original
Oratory, and Extemporaneous Speaking (including in-depth topic analysis).
Students can cross-register in speech and debate. Students in the LD track
also attend morning lectures which give a historical introduction to the
philosophical topics of debate, and which place the activity of debate in a
meaningful historic context.
The Parliamentary Debate Intensive Workshop Designed and led by Sharon
Porter, former Dean of the School of Communication and the Director of
Forensics at Northern Arizona State University, and former President of the
National Parliamentary Debate Association,the Parliamentary Debate track
aims to provide intensive instruction to both beginning debaters and those
experienced in the Parliamentary format. Students at Duino acquire extensive
parliamentary skills in an intimate setting. Parliamentary may also be taken
as an elective.
The Duino Institute has started and we are looking forward to reports from
its participants and organizers.
b. US World Schools Workshop and Qualifier Event, July, 23 2006 - July 29,
2006
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
IDEA, inc., is pleased to announce that it has agreed to sponsor TeamUSA,
the United States team that will be competing at the World Schools Debating
Championship, beginning in 2007.
A great and inexpensive way to get acquainted with international debate in
general and the World Schools debate format in particular will be to attend
a weeklong workshop this summer at Willamette University.
In order to be eligible you must:
- be a Freshman, Sohpmore, or Junior in High School
- be younger than 19 years old by the start of championships (this year will
be Feb 2007)
- be a member of IDEA (if you're not already a member, you can join by
clicking here)
- compete in one of the following:
Parliamentary Debate
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Policy or Cross Examination Debate
Public Forum Debate
Student Congress
Foreign or Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking
- available to be in South Korea for 2 weeks in Feb, 2007
- have coach's recommendation
To apply, register here and submit all the forms listed below. The deadline
to receive applications is June 26. You will be notified by July 5th.
Approximately 20 students will be accepted to attend this event. Of those
students 5 will be chosen to go to South Korea in Feb. Students will not
have to pay any expenses to attend Worlds in South Korea
Payment details:
You must get yourself to Portland or Salem Oregon where you will be picked
up. The fee for the duration of the event will be $50 - this includes room,
board and travel back and forth to the airport. NOTE - IF YOU HAVE NOT YET
BEEN ACCEPTED, YOU SHOULD NOT PAY FOR THIS EVENT. REGISTER TO PAY BY CHECK
OR WIRE, ONCE YOU HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED YOU CAN EITHER MAIL IN A CHECK OR CALL
412 741 1288 TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD
More information on www.idebate.org
Jurate Motiejunaite
IDEA Executive Director
www.idebate.org
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