ONLINE FORMS
In this part of the resource guide you will find various forms to help you plan your dialogue, publicize your event, record what occurs, and report on the outcomes of the dialogue. These forms are either examples from other people’s programs or are designed to be as general as possible. The hope is that these forms will be templates for your work, and that you will customize them to fit the unique character of your events and your participants. However, it is also the hope that if you don’t have time to do so, that most of these forms should be ready to use as is.
These documents are all here for you to copy, print and use. We recognize that not all dialogues will look the same, and we wouldn’t want them to, so we have included these forms as MS Word documents that you can edit to fit your event. However, if you plan to use the documents as they are, please download the PDF files which will guarantee to retain its original formatting regardless of your computer system or programs. You will need Acrobat Reader to open this file, it is available here.
If you plan to modify the forms please download the Word document. This document may lose some formatting or fonts depending on your computer, however, the essence of the document will remain the same, and can be edited to fit your needs.
A word about Introductory Activities - A common parlance within college organizations is to describe introductory activities as “icebreakers”. While we would agree that breaking the ice is critical to any group’s success, many of the activities considered icebreakers appear to be based on the ideas that participants must be entertained if they are to be engaged. In addition, icebreakers tend to delay the work of the meeting, instead of moving it forward. Activities presented here are based upon the idea that students, like any other group of citizens, are capable of coming together to engage in democratic dialogue without the props of M &M’s, post-its on the back, or blindfolds. (Please send us activities you have successfully used to spark dialogues on your campus or community. Please try to generalize the activity so that it can be used to apply to a variety of different situations.)
Online Forms in This Section:
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