Getting Acquainted....and Getting Organized

3:40-4:10
I. Anne: getting acquainted, via wagon wheel/carousel/microlab….
pair up in two concentric circles, across from someone you don't know

tell one another:
1) if you were an imaginary (literary, filmic, gaming) character,
who would you be?
if you were a life form other than human, what might it be?
if you were a (non-organic) structure, what might that be?
(for example, if you were an institution what might that be?)
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2) what is your name and preferred pronoun?
(tell each other all the pronouns you’ve ever heard of)
how do you identify yourself racially and/or ethnically?
(how have others identified you racially and/or ethnically?)
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3) describe the building and the room you lived in
 when you started kindergarten; then…
describe the building and the room you live in now
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4) describe a time when you were silenced;
describe a time when you chose silence
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5) describe a time when you had voice
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6) is there anything that you are afraid to talk about/
are you worried/concerned about our talking about in this class?
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7) describe something you saw today
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8) what is your vision of this 360?
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9) what get-acquainted question should we have asked, but didn't?

4:10-4:25
II. Jody: Reflecting on what emerged, as our wagon wheel "turned…."

4:25-4:45
III. Barb: info session
A) here's where we'll be:
FDC, 12:30-3:30 alternative Fridays
how we'll get there
what you can bring w/ you, etc.
weeks between: lunch 11:30-12:30?

B) Anne: using Serendip to begin co-creating the course:
/exchange/courses/postinginstructions

4:45-5:00
IV. Anne/all: Wrap-up
What questions remain/are emerging/do we bring to this course?
What particular issues might we want to address in this class?
What ideas do we have now, about how we
might go about having these conversations?