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**Welcome to our team's wiki!** = = Since we've just learned that wikis are great for planning and organizing, (as seen in the video "Wikis in Plain English" by Lee Lefever), I thought this would be a great way for us to work and share our arguments and information. Besides, Maria took my idea of Autism for a wiki. :o) I'll just have to be an editor on hers!

I'm slightly confused by this week's assignments. We have been assigned our parts? Or do we get to choose? Can someone on our team help me?

When we post our comments/edits, let's be sure to put our name after it so we know who says what. Carmin sent out an email titled "Con Team" with a link for a Google Doc. We are to put our name and contact info into it and say which part of the debate we want to do. I have never done a debate and so I'm in the dark as to how this goes and what to do from that point. I have not looked at the assignments yet for this coming week, so I'm sure she will have more info there. ~Kathleen

I just looked over this coming week's assignments and our team has filled in the google doc wrong. Please go back and check it. Carmin has posted partners within our team, already stating each of our assignments in the debate. She also has some assignments for us to learn more about debating ~Kathleen

Hi Guys! I've just started reading through the info. for the debate. I guess Erin is our captain and will present the opening statement Wanda presents the closing statement and the rest of us are on teams??? (Tina & me, Mike & Sherita, Kathleen & Holly) a s argument presenter and rebuttal presenter which means nothing to me right now lol. I'm sure after doing a little more reading (which I plan on starting today) it will make more sense. - Sherry

Hi everyone! Looking forward to working with you all on this assignment :) Thanks for setting this up for us Kathleen. I went back and changed my information in the Google Doc to correctly correspond with the roles presented on the assignment page. -Holly

I have to say that I am not a debater in any way, shape, or form. Never have done it formally, and in real life, I'm not good at thinking on my feet. I'm one of those who walks away and says, "Damn! I should have said 'this'!!!!" Anyway, I am excited though. I like this format for posting info! I feel like we have a very intelligent group for our team! (well, they do, too, lol) Holly, we can talk or email maybe Wed or Thur? I plan on doing as much of the reading as I can tonight. I also plan on taking tomorrow evening OFF FROM EVERYTHING. I pretty much have not seen my husband since our wedding Oct. 1....and I didn't see much of him that night, either! We have not had any time together, alone. I'm also happy that for the first time in my life, I will get to have a Valentine's Day. (my ex was born on this day and we never celebrated). ~Kathleen

Kathleen, sorry this is the first time I have posted to the wiki. I have been focused on reading and watching all the information posted for us in the NING to prepare for the debate. Currently, we do have some nice argument suggestions posted from Tina and Sherry. Hopefully, we can get our arguments choices finalized this evening, so partner sets can be assigned an argument and begin preparing for the 21st. I will not be available tomorrow evening (Friday - 2/17), my family and I are off to the circus (my daughter's Valentine's Day gift). But I will check my email and the Google Doc during the workday tomorrow, and Saturday and Sunday I will definitely be available and researching. We probably should not post anything vital about our debate arguments in this wiki. Since it is linked in the week 6 NING discussion, we don't want any of our competition getting advance notice or preparation time to rebut our argument choices. - Erin