You Tube Conversation
Each group member will select a You Tube video related to the selected controversy, and stage a discussion on the message board of the video with the aim to elevate the level of discourse present on the message board.
Each member of your group will need to develop and execute a strategy that involves each member taking on a position and then generating comments indicative of that position. This means that each member of the group needs to develop a position (as an "advocate," an "antagonist," or an "interrogator") based on research that diverges from the positions of the other group members. You may or may not succeed in getting others outside the group to respond, although there are tactics that might help, such as replying directly to someone else who has already posted something worthy of responding to.
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Roles
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How to Proceed
First and foremost, each group member must sign up for YouTube account and then select a video to stage three different conversations.
You will need to strategize how to argue on a message board that in some way corresponds to your topic.
The traffic on the message board ought to be frequent, but not so frequent that your comments will get lost in an endless stream of postings. Ideally, you will post to a message board that already has posts.
As a group, examine these posts to help develop your strategies. Catalog the different kinds of argumentative strategies that exist on the message board, and then include your observations on your You Tube reflection.
Assign members of your group (including yourself) roles to perform. Set up a blog post to share a link to the video, detailing what the opposing values are that each person will draw from. These argumentative roles include the being an “advocate,” an “antagonist,” and the “interrogator.”
Regardless of your role, you cannot simply agree or disagree. You need to supply good reasons as well as evidence. Use arguments from definition, from comparison/contrast, and from consequence from chapter three of A Little Argument, available on Dropbox. You will also find different kinds of fallacies in chapter three, either to expose another's argument as specious, or to employ them yourself.
Part of your strategy should include leaving space for others outside the class to engage with you, perhaps even including people you invite to participate.
While you are engaged in this process, you will need to continue to advance your research of the topic, identifying and documenting different websites and texts, which you will include in your annotated bibliography.
When posting to a You Tube message board, remember that you will need to provide screen shots of your YouTube conversation to display in your group Prezi presentation, highlighting screen names and listing your actual names next to them on the print out.
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Argumentative Strategies
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