Many of you have expressed interest in creating smaller support or
critique groups. Here's a description of one such group -- now 10
years old -- from one of its charter members:
"We keep the
membership to about 12 as not everyone comes each week.
We have three readers and two spares each week and we go there to
critique, not to socialize except at the snack break mid-way. The host
person choses someone to be the convenor for the night and when it
comes time to critique, the convenor is the one who says who will
start. Nobody interrupts. The person being critiqued listens and
doesn't interrupt unless required to explain something. It is one of
the fairest, most thorough and wonderful groups I've ever been in. I
owe a lot to them. They keep me inspired and focused."
Note a couple of critical elements: the
"reading and critiquing" chores rotate, so one or two opinionated types
don't dominate, and the receiver must listen to all the
critiquing comments without interruption.
Perhaps you'd like to start something similar. If so, post here, bring
it up in class or tutorial, or put a flyer on the PWA bulletin board.
That just might get something going...
Scribite!
kent