http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/ The highest quality in debate training for over 20 years. 2005-08-01T16:43:38-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/08/friday_college.html WDI FEATURES WIDELY AVAILABLE COMPUTER LABS DEVOTED TO DEBATE STUDENTS The College Policy workshop kicked off today with a bang. Students gathered inb the Royall Tlter Theatre for the opening session. This was immediately followed by two hours of... 2005-08-01T16:43:38-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/08/thursday_intl_c.html WDI OFFERS DISTANCE LEARNING PACKAGES FOR MANY OF ITS PROGRAMS The International Debate program continued with practice debates and lectures about argument construction and refutation. Reports indicate that the attendees are rapidly improving andf will soon be ready to... 2005-08-01T16:37:24-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/wednesday_inter.html Steve Llano judging a high school debate International students got a chance to familiarize themselves with Burlington, the campus as well as the library. John Meany and Bojana Skrt began a three day program designed to prepare the international... 2005-07-28T11:24:26-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/tuesday_high_sc.html Going for the Win! Today was move out day for the High School Policy students. Many sad goodbyes, exchanges of contact information, and a few last times together. It was sad to be leaving each other and Burlington, but... 2005-07-28T11:17:59-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/monday_debates.html THE TOP TEN SPEAKERS IN THE TOURNAMENT The final debates took place at 9:30 AM and 1:30 PM. There was strong competition as the undefeated teams were meeting each other. Even those teams who had not fared so well... 2005-07-27T10:42:39-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/sunday_the_tour.html At 1:30 PM Sunday the tournament began. Four debates would yield tournament winners and top speakers. Debates came one after the other, with a 3:30 PM debate and then a 7 PM debate after dinner. The competition was fierce... 2005-07-27T10:37:41-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/saturday_beach.html The HS Policy workshop arose early to get the day started -- a day of work and fun. In the morning the faculty were located in individual classrooms and were available for students to come and ask questions about... 2005-07-27T10:33:08-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/friday_victory.html HS Policy workshop students finished research assignments in a flurry of activity. The copiers were humming as evidence sets were produced for each student. Research projects were concluded on prison searches, school searches, national id cards, topicality, critical race... 2005-07-27T10:15:58-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/thursday_the_fu.html The HS Policy workshop continued their struggle of research and practice debates. Many groups feel they are close to completion while others feel they are a bit behind in the research process. The small instruction groups continue, today the... 2005-07-24T16:28:40-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/wednesday_pract.html The HS policy workshop has been debating since the second day of the program, but now those debates are starting to show dramatic improvement. Students are learning about the topic and their arguments, so the quality of argumentation is... 2005-07-22T15:25:31-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/tuesday_researc.html At the HS policy workshop students had small groups and a practice debate, but every student is in a research group and they are in the library, reading thick books, searching the Internet, reading law journals and coming face... 2005-07-22T15:14:26-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/monday_comings.html The HS Public Debate Workshop and the Middle School Public Debate Workshop came to an end today as instruction and debating characterized a flurry of activity for these students. An awards assembly was held for them where they were... 2005-07-19T10:10:40-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/post_1.html 2005-07-18T20:37:57-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/download_file.html Download file... 2005-07-18T20:35:00-05:00 http://debate.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2005/07/post.html 2005-07-18T20:32:03-05:00