THIS SECTION OF THE SITE IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT

Some ideas of what might eventually be part of this particular web page are outlined below, especially as a stimulus for discussion among members of the WISR community.

A theme at WISR is the notion of Knowledge-Building in Everyday Life. Our web-based bulletin board could serve as an online forum for students, faculty, alumni, and interested visitors to collaborate on themes and topics of interest to the WISR community and to visitors to our web site who share some of our social, intellectual and educational concerns.
We are looking for a couple of volunteers from the WISR community to regularly put some idea or issue forth for discussion by others-to propose threads for discussion among the WISR community and to keep topics on the bulletin board pertinent to WISR's themes and mission. Developing and updating this Bulletin Board could be a topic of discussion at faculty meetings and at All-School Gatherings. Perhaps we could form a student-faculty-alumni subcommittee charged with promoting productive discussion and learning through the web site bulletin board/forum. People at WISR could be encouraged to write mini-essays and then we could invite others to submit their comments. People at WISR could be encouraged to forward interesting, and even sometimes humorous, things they read on the Internet to our bulletin board (and indeed, we get one or two e-mail from members of the WISR community along these lines every day). We might have to decide who would review and select e-mail to put them up on the Bulletin Board, or if we should instead have some more direct way of allowing anyone to post something.

We might invite (or guide) members of the WISR community, and interested visitors to the web site, especially to post comments, and have ongoing dialogue, on such types of topics as:

Student requests for 1) people to collaborate with, 2) books, research resources, seminars, internships, jobs, and 3) feedback on drafts
Discussions on current events
Discussions on how to learn at WISR and eliciting feedback from students and faculty (e.g., how to improve learning at WISR)
Discussions on professional/community issues
Discussions on scholarly findings and issues in various disciplines of interest
Comments on news items and research reports of interest
Discussion items from previous and upcoming seminars at WISR
Reports on recent conferences and events, and announcements of upcoming events
Sharing reviews of books and articles

And, we may decide to have a secure, password only access, to some portions of the Bulletin Board open only to immediate, actively involved members of the WISR community:

Setting agendas for WISR meetings (all-school meetings, Board meetings, faculty meetings)
Student study groups, subcommittees)
Drafts of papers (by students, faculty or alumni) for comment by others
On-line discussion-perhaps organized by threads as well as WISR themes (action-research, multiculturality, social change, building WISR's learning environment, regarding WISR seminars, building WISR as an institution, etc.)
Discussion about WISR projects (including community-based action-research collaborations among
students and/or faculty) in the making
Link to Directory of Students, Faculty, Alumni and Board of WISR (to facilitate contacting one another)
Questionnaires/Surveys to WISR community (e.g., annual evaluations of teaching by students)