November 5 2011

Topics Discussed: (We can extract and develop ideas from these minutes)

Questions for Allen this coming Wednesday: 11/9/11

• How can we make CIRAL happen?
• What has already been done? (lesson plans, etc.)
• What can we improve on?
• What sort of constraints that could inhibit CIRAL have we overlooked, and what can we do to prepare for these obstacles?
• Questions on the wiki are mostly still valid as well.

• Consensus reached: 8crd evening/weekend program with the possibility of an additional 4crd course

• Implementation portion is underdeveloped
• Work with tangible components for hypothetical models
• Everyone should contribute to the asset map

• Erika's student organization lists are open to revisions
  • She has posted an outline to apply for non-profit partnerships

• Jeremiah suggested that we outline activities for the class for the 1st two weeks
  • Team building/trust building exercises- table arrangement; meta-cognition; planning.
  • Group Games- embracing games as a safe environment to learn from mistakes
• Rotating group facilitators

CIRAL 'citizen training' as an introductory research topic

• Wiki training/interaction/familiarity
• Editing shared documents
• Introducing students to new perspectives and roles
• Building leadership skills during meetings
  • Group reflection of simulations/experiments
  • Group Dynamics
  • Interdisciplinary studies
• Implementing a process prior to projects to develop each others ideas and get people thinking as a group.
• Embracing CIRAL's openness to all disciplines at Evergreen

Where to go next?

• Practice then theorize; group games followed by meta-cognition seminars
• Incorporate the scientific method aspect of civic intelligence
  • Observe
  • Theorize
  • Test
  • Analyze
    • Documenting progress/journal entries on the wiki
    • Stream of questions/ideas for group discussion of journal entries
    • Journal requirements on developing an understanding of civic intelligence
    • More things mandatory vs. self motivation
    • Active rebellion as a valuable role
    • Learning is the reward
    • Free-writing exercises

• Keeping up on the wiki
  • Projects could be more flushed out
    • Identify scale, scope, and developments (elaborate further)
    • Everyone add to the 5 course projects
• Produce a model for CIRAL during talk with Allen
• Refer incoming CIRAL students who are new to independent projects to the Academic Advising Center

• Community Building
  • Gathering info and sharing/interacting
  • Apply that knowledge-base to a project