Thursday, December 31, 2015

The rules for discussions


One person should be the  chairperson  (moderator) of the discussion.

1. The chairperson has to suggest specific categories of articles or videos and ask one of the members present at the meeting to choose a specific category.
If more than 50% of the members are against that category then the chairperson must ask another person to choose another category.
The rule is: If the group members are not satisfied with the category 3 times in succession the chairperson will choose the category and their decision will be final.

2. After choosing the category the chairperson will propose one of the sites from that category and will ask one of the members to choose an article from the chosen site to read.
If more than 50% of the members dislike that article the chairperson will ask another person to choose another article.
The rule is: if the group members are not be satisfied with the article 3 times in succession the chairperson will choose the article and their decision will be final.

3. Then the chairperson will ask the group members to read that text/article. If there are any words or sentences they don’t understand, members should ask questions about them.
After reading the text some time will be provided for questions to be asked and answered. Group members will ask questions about the text, which will be answered by other members. If nobody has any questions about the text then some questions about it will be asked by the chairperson.

4. After the discussion, members need to give the article a rating (from 1-5). The average rating for each site will be shown in our VK group (https://vk.com/fastdiscussions) in the topic: "Rating of sites for each category"