"cyber recording project"
Recording what goes on in meetings is an important skill for an organizer. An organizer must know who said what, what themes were discussed, and what promises were made. The purpose of this exercise is to get you thinking about what goes into a good set of notes, to help you improve your own note taking both for class, but also for future organizing campaigns.
Each Week several students in the Introduction to Community Organizing class put together a short summery and synthesis describing what went on in class.
The unedited "minutes" of each class will be posted below( scroll down the page and just click on the notes you want to read and like magic they will appear!)
 
 
Community Organizing Students
Your comments on these notes are essential 
(and required at least once during the semester)!
Was anything left out?
Were the notes clear?
Well organized? Confusing?
How might these notes be improved?
Post your comments on the bulletin board 
(be sure to indicate whose notes you are commenting on)
Student comments and evaluations of  the following class notes are currently being posted on the "bulletin board" of this web site. See what your peers think of your note taking skills there.  
 
 
 
September 7th: 
Community Organizing - History and Goals 
(Notes A) (Notes B)		 September 14th: 
Fieldwork recruitment by Visiting Organizers - No Class Notes
September 21st: 
No Class - monday Schedule		 September 28th: 
Community Organizing - History and Goals (cont.) 
(Notes A) (Notes B) (Notes C)
October 5th 
 Defining and Understanding "Community" in Community Organizing:  Places, Spaces, Symbols, Shared Heritage and Sentiment 
( Notes A) (Notes B) (Notes C) (Notes D)
 		 October 12th: 
Defining "Organizing" in Community Organizing: Models, Types, Auspices  
and Levels  
(Notes A) (Notes B)
October 19th:  
Steps in Developing a Community Organizing Campaign: Focusing on the External "Cutting an Issue" 
(Notes A)( Notes B) (Notes C)		 October 26th: 
Developing a Community Organizing Campaign: Analyzing Power  
(Notes A) (Notes B) 
November 2nd: 
Designing a Campaign 
Student organizing  group campaign project presentations 

No Class Notes

 November 9th: 
Steps in Building An Organization: Focusing on the Internal:  Organizers versus  Leaders 
Meeting Evaluation Field trip: Hunter College CUNY Legislative Action Committee Meeting 
(Notes A) 
November 16th: 
Organizing for Diverse Communities: Labor, Education and Immigration (Guest Speakers: D. Chan AFL CIO; Prof. P. Kwong, Hunter College; N. Colletti UFT) 
(Notes A) (Notes B) (Notes C)		 November 23rd: 
Putting an Issue on the Public Agenda: AIDs  In class film: And the Band Played On 

No  Class Notes
November 30th: 
Confronting Identity: Race, Class and Gender Issues in Organizing  
(Notes A) (Notes B) (Notes C) (Notes D) (Notes E) (Notes F) (Notes G)		 December 7th: 
Final Class 
Student presentations on organizing fieldwork 

No Class Notes