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Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Innovations for Teaching the Deliberative Experience Online: Our Experiences and Experiments Using Common Ground for Action and Online Conferencing Tools" on Thursday, January 21, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. This event is presented by Campus Compact as part of its National Webinar Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State College community. Speakers are Kara Dillard, Kara Lindaman, John Theis, and Verdis Robinson.

Until very recently, deliberative democracy has mainly meant in-person, face-to-face discussions; however, the current crisis has created an opportunity to innovate by experimenting with moving deliberation online. We will share insights we gained from hosting a national week of cross-campus online deliberative dialogues using Common Ground for Action (CGA), a series of weekly campus-based online deliberations, and from several experiments in campus, community, and classroom deliberations using CGA and video conferencing software. Specifically, session attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a short demonstration of CGA, and then we will discuss how to integrate a variety of methods of online deliberation into university classrooms and campus-community deliberative events, how to structure syllabi and assignments for students to get the most from their deliberative experience, and explore best practices with seasoned forum conveners. Presenters represent the diversity of civic engagement in democratic practice across different disciplines at colleges and universities (two-year, four-year), the Kettering Foundation, and the National Issues Forums Institute.

Please register online for this webinar and for as many other presentations in the National Webinar Series as you would like.