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The 5 things I am proud of this week 20/02/2009
Well here are the 5 things each of us are proud of this week;David S
1) New ideas in meetings, extending to our online presence on Facebook.
2) Inviting my friends and people I know into the Facebook group 'Debatewise'.
3) Helping create 'Debate Wise' which is a he, the new face of Debatewise!
4) Finishing compiling the Uni Society contacts list, including some good feedback.
5) Compiling the 2400+ strong Uni professors list (with a lot of help from Outlook haha)
Betony
1) Ideas for the new 'Revise
2) Bea-uu-tiful leaflets for said campaign
3) Wrote two academic debates as exemplars for it.
4) Blog entry (see below). I spent ages writing it and then the session timed out. grr. But I did it again...
5) Increased Facebook presence (88 freinds of Debate Wise and 23 more members of the group)
David C
Didn't actually finish much this week, but lots of things moved forward. The five I feel most good about are:
1) The funding pitches
2) A new Twitter app
3) Our charitable status
4) The World Online Debating Championships
5) Site development
Alex Helling
1) Wrote two sample debates for revisewise –self determination (International Law), Concert of Europe (International relations)
2) Researched citations – how we can include them and what academic material is available online (free and subscribe able)
3) Wrote up the ideas for an internal universities debatewise
4) Wrote up the ideas for a bibliography debatewise
5) Searching for the contact details of debating organisations/societies worldwide (not finished)