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At debatewise this week: our 5
It was only a 4 day working week so should we really have 5 things done? DEBATE!Alex
1, finished my part of the list of Humanities and Social Science lecturers... over 3200 emails, hope we get some response from them.
2, Spent quite some time working on a debate on the exclusion act 1679, trying to make it mostly from quotes of MP’s, more difficult than I expected partially due to the limited number of sources that are accessible to non-academics. (I will hopefully get it up over the weekend)
3, added a little bit to our email to professors asking if they could do debates themselves or suggesting it could be part of seminars.
4, making a list of historical societies (got somewhat overtaken with finding all those lecturers emails!) mostly have academic ones at the moment, however I think it is a good idea to expand my search to areas that may well have a broader memberbase such as historical magazines.
5, hurriedly put in a debate on the Global War on Terror to stop the onward march of the European Union on Debatewise!
Dave
1) Got the Twitter app up (www.debatewise.info/twitter). Tell us what you think
2) Emailed 2,200 lecturers about Revisewise
3) Finished the design for the new comments section
4) Started work with our new Fundraising mentor, so good to have your help Yen
5) That’s it this week, had to focus on the day job.
Betony
Mine has been a week of first drafts and the EU!
1) Wrote first draft if the debateiwse annual report
2) Wrote first draft of the submission for the House of Lords People and Parliament Inquiry
3) Wrote first draft of our google analytics report (investigation into what we can learn from stats about the site)
4)Had media training session with Joanne Mallon
5)Co-ordinated the EU debates ready for Votematch (as Alex mentions, we have been inundated - thanks to Judith, Samantha and Rebecca!
Peter
1) Achieved my target to get 500 university lecturers to contact for revisewise.
2) Started to write a debate on electoral reform.
3) Wrote a debate on Hillsborough, not really good im afraid, the issue makes me quite emotional, not good for debating.
4) Did various trips to post offices and post boxes to post revisewise materials.
5) Thoroughly enjoyed the debatewise friday feast.
And finally, we are sad to announce that Judith, one of our much loved interns, has been offered an internship with an MP and so is leaving us this week. Here are her parting words:
Working with Debatewise has been challenging, but also very rewarding and good fun. The workplace environment has been great to work in as it is a young, dynamic office with lots of energy!
What I enjoyed the most at Debatewise has been working on the website itself; it has been exciting to be involved in a project which empowers the public with knowledge on important current public policy debates. The most rewarding projects I have been involved in have been compiling judging criteria for the upcoming World Online Debating Championships and outlining lesson plans to be taken on by schools who wish to teach debating in order to enrich and engage school students in important discussions and debates as well as developing their communication skills and confidence.
What I will miss the most about working for Debatewise is the friendly, lively atmosphere, working on a variety of important projects, and playing with the office residential dog, Marley!