Pakistani Students Discuss Stereotypes of Muslims and Americans

This is a group of Pakistani students who attended the International Student Leaders Program held in cooperation with the World Debate Institute this summer at the University of Vermont. Students designed, rehearsed and then filmed a round table discussion on this issue. For more information go to: https://sharepoint.uvm.edu/sites/ce/global/isi/Academic%20Program/Forms/AllItems.aspx .

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Lecture: World Schools - Format Basics

This is a lecture by Bojana Skrt of Slovenia. It was the opening lecture of the World Schools Debate Workshop at the World Debate Institute. Others will follow. The World Schools format is rapidly becoming more and more popular for competition outside of the championship itself.

There are two sizes, one fairly small (36.9 MB) , and the other fairly large (podcast 399 MB).

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World Debate Institute website is http://worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/

Video: National Public Policy Forum 2007

The Bickel and Brewer Foundation’s National Public Policy Forum is promoted and explained in the video below. It is a great competition and a great time. This is a short video put together by Bickel & Brewer and features a number of people who are involved in the event. Check out their website at http://www.bickelbrewer.com/index.php?id=debate

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Debate: WSDC Format - Budva Open Finals - Brain Drain

PHOTO: Winning Croatia team celebrates

The final round of the Budva Open 2006 was held at the Queen of Montenegro Hotel just outside Budva in a lovely setting. The tournament had yielded these as the best two teams. Before a large audience, the media, and representatives of the Montenegro Education Ministry, Croatia debated Budva 1 on the motion, Brain drain should be regulated. The debate was a 3-0 decision for the proposition/affirmative.

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Lectures: USA High School Policy Debate Topic for 2007-08

Here are three lectures introducing high school students to the topic, that the US should substantially increase public health assistance to sub-Saharan Africa.

Gordie Miller of the University of Rochester is the first speaker. Gordie has a long coaching career, has national titles to his credit, and has coached a top speaker at college nationals.

Jackie Massey of the University of Oklahoma gives the second and third lectures. He has been a very successful coach, this year his team won Harvard, Wake Forest, Northwestern and CEDA Nationals.

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Lecture 3 http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/wdi07hstopic3.mov

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Lecture 3 http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/wdi07hstopic3.m4v

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Tibetan Monks Debating in Traditional Style

Several short videos here.

Debate: Asian Format - Space Resources

PHOTO: The six debaters in the final round.

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This grand final debate in the Asian format was on the motion, this house would support support private ownership of resources found in space.. The proposition team is composed of three students from Southeast Asia, while the opposition team is composed of three women from Ehwa University.

The decision by the house was for the opposition team.

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Debate: Asian Format - Japan should have a Standing Army

PHOTO: Top ten speakers at WDI Asia 2006

This semifinal debate in the Asian format was on the motion, this house believe that Japan should have a standing army. The proposition team is composed of three women from Ehwa University, while the opposition team is composed of three Korean students from different universities.

The decision by the house was for the proposition team.

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Lecture: Parliamentary Debate - Motions You are Unprepared For

Famous debater for Ateneo de Manilla, Philippines, Eleanor Uy gives this talk at the 2005 Asian Debate Institute in Seoul, Korea.

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Northeast Asian Open

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Tokyo University vs. Ehwa University in the finals. Thanks to Jason Jarvis for this video.

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Debate: Asian Format: Japan is a Better Friend to Northeast Asia than America

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Tokyo University vs, Ehwa University in the finals. Thanks to Jason Jarvis for this video.

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Debate: Asian Format - Suicide Websites

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This debate was taped in 2005 at the Asian Debate Institute in Seoul, Korea. This debate takes place in the Asian format. The discussion centers on Japan and Korea.

My apologies for not knowing all of the names. Email me at alfred.snider@uvm.edu if you know their names and can help me.
Proposition:
Unkown
Jason Jarvis, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Eleanor Uy, Ataneo, Philippines
Opposition:
Logan Belavigendran, MultiMedia University, Malaysia
Unknown
Irma Nazarhan, International Islamic University, Malaysia

Masako Suzuki was the chair of this debate.

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Debate: WSDC format - USA out of Iraq

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This was an exhibition debate filmed in August 2005 in Seoul, Korea at the Asian Debate Institute. The motion is that this house would iimmediately withdraw US troops from Iraq.

Proposition:
Alfred Snider, University of Vermont, USA
Omar Salahuddin, MultiMedia University, Malaysia
Jason Jarvis, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Opposition:
Eleanor Uy, Ataneo, Philippines
Peejay Garcia, Ataneo, Philippines
Logan Belavigendran, MultiMedia University, Malaysia.

The chair was Loke Wng Fatt of Singapore.

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Lecture: Persuasion Theory and Debate Practice

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I delivered this talk as the opening lecture for World Debate Institute Asia held at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea in August 2006.

I wanted to integrate current persuasion research, wherever possible in a sensical way, to modern debate procedure and practice. The result seemed to be to spark additional ideas on the part of some members of the audience, who talked about developing some surveys to test some of my ideas. The students also rated the lecture highly in post WDI Asia evaluations. My thanks to old time Cal State Fullerton coach and my former office mate in graduate school, Bob Gass, for his excellent book (above) that can be found online at http://www.amazon.com/Persuasion-Social-Influence-Compliance-Gaining/dp/0205462162/sr=1-1/qid=1157048416/ref=sr_1_1/103-3908823-9213403?ie=UTF8&s=books . I am strongly advising serious debate folks to have a look at it.

The extensive outline of this presentation can be found at http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/doctortuna/Blog2006/6E98AE9F-2050-4353-8AEC-B040ED6ADC00.html

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Debate: Neoliberalism in Latin America (in Spanish)

PHOTO: Marcelo debates

There were six debaters and one trainer from Latin America attending the Parliamentary Debate Workshop at WDI (http://debate.uvm.edu/wdi/ ), and all of them have been working and debating in English.

It was decided shortly after arrival that after these students had learned a lot and improved their performance they would stage a debate in Spanish, a debate that would be videotaped along with a critique in Spanish by Alvaro Ferrer. The video would then be put on the web as well as made available on a DVD. This would be a very useful teaching tool not only for students from Latin America and Spain, but also for the millions of young people in the USA who have Spanish as one of their languages.

The topic was that the new governments in Latin America pose a threat to neoliberalism (“los actuales gobiernos latinamericanos son una amenaza para el sistema leoliberal”). Ricardo Gomez Caro teamed up with Luis Vidal Michea as the proposition team, while Marcelo Rivera Olave teamed up with Maximiliano Murah Mansilla.

The debate was very spirited and dynamic. My faulty Spanish was well challenged, but I could understand enough to follow the major arguments.

The four students were very excited, as were the Spanish-speaking students in the audience. They finally got to show how good they really are in their native language, even though we have been very impressed by their English-language debating.

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Video: Introduction to Debate (in Spanish) from Universidad Andres Bello

PHOTO: Instructor Kate Shuster, center, poses with some Latin American debaters at WDI 2006. Luis Vidal is on the far right.

This is extracted from a DVD produced by Universidad Andres Bello in Chile. The video gives basic instruction and background about the process of debating and how to debate and then offers extracts of Spanish language debate from Chile.

Thanks to Luis Vidal of Chile who made this DVD available while he was attending the 2006 World Debate Institute parliamentary debate instruction program (http://debate.uvm.edu/wdi/ ).

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Website Features YouTube Debate Videos

They are not all posted here on this website, and every few days the contents of the website YouDebate at

http://youdebate.blogspot.com/

are updated to offer an easy way to survey the many relevant videos featuring real debate about issues that appear on YouTube.

No Need to search endlessly, as we locate and review these videos and then put the best on this site.

Very short videos (how could it be a debate at less than 4 minutes?) are not put on. See debates about the existence of God, the appropriateness of wife beating in the Koran, Pakistani nuclear testing, celebrity environmentalism and a lot more.

World Schools Debate: Water is More Important than Oil

PHOTO: Participants pose

This debate took place at the Korea High School Debate Championship, August 2006. It was part of the judge training program that preceded the tournament. Judges had received World Schools Debating Championship training from chief adjudicator Bojana Skrt of Slovenia. After that they judged this debate and were evaluated based on their scores and reasons for decision.

The motion was: this house believes that water is more important than oil.

The participants were:
Government:
Alfred Snider, Professor, University of Vermont, USA
Jason Jarvis, Assistant Dean, Korea Development Institute Graduate School of Public Policy and Management
Omar Salahuddin, Professor, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Opposition:
Serena Turley, Debate Coach, California State University Fullerton, USA
Jake Meany, Debater, University of Vermont, USA
Irma Nazarah, Debater, International Islamic University, Malaysia

The chair was Loke Wing Fatt, Director, Society of Associated Intertertiary Debaters, Singapore

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Debate: Classroom Debate by Teachers

PHOTO: Jennifer LeTourneau cross examines Glenn Steinman at the World Debate Institute

At the World Debate Institute going on this summer at the University of Vermont there is a three credit graduate class for teachers, and the subject is debate across the curriculum. Using the textbook by Alfred Snider and Maxwell Schnurer Many Sides: debate across the curriculum and the extensive (30 plus workshops) training experience of Bojana Skrt the teachers have a week to learn about debating and how it can be applied to the classroom in almost any subject. For more information, when available, about next year’s workshop and class, go to http://debate.uvm.edu/wdi/ .

This debate is on the topic, JUNK FOOD SHOULD NOT BE SERVED IN SCHOOLS, and is designed to take place between students in a health class. The debaters include Jennifer LeTourneau, Amy WIlson, Glenn Steinman and Jeff Barber.

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Debate: Policy Debate - CEDA National Final

PHOTO: Street sign in Costa Rica (sorry, I couldn’t help myself)

This is the final round of the CEDA National Tournament held at the University of Louisville in 2004. The debate features Emory University vs. the University of North Texas. The talking is very fast but the sound track seems pretty clear. Thanks to the University of Louisville for this video.

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Lecture: Parliamentary Debate - Format Variations

PHOTO: John Meany teaching at WDI 2006

This talk was given at the 2003 World Debate Institute held at the University of Vermont. The speaker is John Meany of the Claremont Colleges in California. The subject concerns various parliamentary debate formats used around the world.

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Lecture: Parliamentry Debate - Speaker Duties

PHOTO: Steve Woods at the conference in Istanbul

This talk was given at the 2003 World Debate Institute held at the University of Vermont. The speaker is Steve Woods of Western Washington University. The subject concerns speaker roles in a parliamentary debate.

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Video: University of Illinois Restarts Debate Program

Les Lynn from Chicago sent me this video that tries to promote the fledgling debate program at Illinois. It uses old footage, the College Sports Television footage of the NDT as well as Urban Debate League footage from the CBS 60 Minutes story. It is an interesting watch.

Les says:

The University of Illinois -- Urbana/Champaign began competing in NDT debate in 2005, after more than 15 years off of the intercollegiate debate circuit. The restoration of the U. of I. debate society is being led by Student Senator Chime Asonye and Forrest Sumlar. Chime and Forrest are juniors, and both UDL graduates. This is a video representation of their advocacy and vision for the debate society at the University of Illinois.

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Lecture: Parliamentary Debate - The Critique Process

PHOTO: Kate Shuster at a previous WDI with Sarah Snider

This talk was given at the 2003 World Debate Institute held at the University of Vermont. The speaker is Kate Shuster of the Claremont Colleges. The subject concerns how to critique arguments made in a parliamentary debate.

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