Archive for September, 2008

Presidential Debate 1 – Reaction

Hope all of you got to see the Presidential Debate this evening between Senator McCain and Senator Obama. I thought Obama did a much better job in the debate from the perspective of argumentation and debate principals. Here are a few thoughts:

Strategic Concessions
I thought Senator Obama did an excellent job pointing out agreements he [...]

LD in California: Make it Hot!

Greetings LD,
I just returned from the UK last night and was hit with some interesting news on my arrival, LD will not be held at our Northern California Season Opener due to a withdraw of entries.
I wanted to take a moment to remind the community that in order the gain the maximum of education and [...]

Finding articles

Google news provides an excellent service of ‘alerts.’ These are automatic emails to any email account based on certain keywords. Right after the Cuba topic was announced I setup an alert for Cuba and everyday Google sends me a email with major articles about Cuba. It’s great for debate because you can [...]

Supplies!

I recognize this is a rather odd topic to bring up, but we’ve never discussed it on this page. What kinds of supplies do L/D debaters need to bring to tournaments? I’ll share a couple of ideas, and then members of the community can flesh this out.
For files – My debaters use a [...]

Delicious.com Project – tag with Cuba-LD

Recently I have been enamored with the social bookmarking site Delicious. The way the site works is that you tag websites with keywords that are then saved as bookmarks in a database. To access your bookmarks you then go to the delicious web page (or various browser plugins – here is one for [...]

SoCal-LD.net Philosophy

Hey everyone!
Commenting on a previous post here Sydne observed that people were probably not sharing case ideas because we will be competing against each other this year. I certainly respect that approach and do not intend the rest of this post as an attack on Sydne or any schools who would rather not disclose [...]