Hi all,
During class yesterday, some of you expressed interest in seeing a video about meeting methods that I had accessed.
I had done a quick search for these videos, having heard about them years before, because I felt that we needed some other approach to understanding meeting methods - that my straight powerpoint-driven lecture wasn't doing the trick.
I've had a a look at these videos now, and think that they might work So I'm sending you the links to them, in the hope that some of you take some time (four videos, about an hour total) to watch some or all of them, and advise me on whether they are worth showing the next time I teach this class.
They are about as funny as this kind of thing can be, since they were written and acted by John Cleese, of those old Monty Python TV shows/movies and star of stage and screen. My concern is that they are targeted at a business audience, and may not translate fully to our interest in community involvement, or might not be interesting.
They are streamed from a website that is trying to sell them to corporate trainers - hence the enormous fee. The streamed versions are the same as the ones they sell, except having "preview" on the screen, which is only a little distracting.
See what you think, and please get back to me. I'll post this on my blog as well - you can comment on my blog. I will award those who do provide a thoughtful review of the entire set with extra credit equiv. to one blog post. Plus, I think you will learn something extremely valuable from these videos.
(note that the links are located halfway down the page, in red below orange type that says "click here", and are called "online previews":
http://www.rctm.com/Products/celebritiesgurus/johncleese/5618.htm
http://www.rctm.com/Products/celebritiesgurus/johncleese/5626.htm
http://www.rctm.com/Products/celebritiesgurus/johncleese/5605.htm
Regards,
Prof. B