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Digital Debate Camp sponsored by Georgia Debate Union!

The Digital Debate Camp provides instruction for Cross-examination Policy, Lincoln-Douglass, and Public Forum debate. We strategically tailor student interaction to create unique programs ideal for all expertise levels from the young novice to the seasoned veteran. Whatever your style or experience, you can find help at the Digital Debate Camp sponsored by the Georgia Debate Union! More information can be found at the DDC's website.
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2015 Georgia Debate Institutes!

Information about the 2015 Georgia Debate Institutes has now been posted!  We will be offering a 2 week policy camp, a 3 week policy camp, and a one week public forum camp.   Dates of the camp run from June 14 until July 4.  More details can be found at georgiadebateinstitutes.org or here.    
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The Georgia Debate Institutes begin tomorrow!

The official start to the 2014 Georgia Debate Institutes begins tomorrow afternoon as kids from around Georgia and around the country - from New Mexico to Maryland, from Illinois to Florida - come to Athens to register for the 2 week policy camp. The two labs at the camp are the Gibson/Malsin lab and the Grellinger/Watson lab.  Over the two week period, the kids will work on developing their debate skills through the combination of targeted…
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Paperless Future: Hey, Ho, Microsoft Word Has Got To Go

The debate community has always repurposed technology to suit its needs. My earliest memory of this involved taping photocopied quotations to recipe cards from the kitchen.  After that, it was Rubbermaid storage tubs and accordion folders.   Each time, the adapted item served some specific need created by the changing nature of the debate activity, and each time the technology wasn't a perfect fit.  You can only fit a short…
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The Changing Face of Paperless

As part of UGA’s continued writing on technology and debate, I intend to briefly take stock of where we (Georgia and the broader debate community) are with regards to paperless debate, now that the experiment is roughly two and a half years old. These observations should not be read as a critique of paperless debate per say --- but as suggestions for improvement and predictions of where technology and debate will “evolve”. I’ve intentionally…
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Judging Paperless Debates: Difficulties and Opportunities

The popularization of paperless debate over the last few years presents some difficulties in adjudicating these debates as well as some opportunities. Though the difficulties have been discussed at length, I would like to facilitate a more complete discussion of the benefits that paperless debate offers from the perspective of the judge. There are three chief benefits from this perspective, 1) the potential to access the evidence that…
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Tech Tip - LabTimer

Need a timer for debating or judging? Got an iPod or iPhone? There's an app for you: LabTimer. While there are other debate timing apps available (including iDebate), nothing comes close to LabTimer. Designed for timing multiple test tubs during lab experiments, it has four independent timers that can be set to different start times, labeled (for instance, Constructive, Rebuttal, Aff Prep, Neg Prep), runs in the background, and has a non-…
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Strategies for Success Against Paperless Teams

In the debate community, we are starting to see a substantial transition to paperless debate. Unfortunately, many people in the community think paperless wastes time, delays debates, and gives an unfair advantage to the paperless team. However, teams that debate with paper can easily use the advantages paperless debate offers to maximize their ability to win more debates. Since the transition to paperless is occurring so rapidly, it is necessary…
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Card Cutting Tip: Researching With Locked PDFs

"Locked" PDFs, where security setting have disabled the copy-pasting of text, are an annoying and unnecessary obstacle in today's decentralized research-friendly web universe. Fortunately, they can be conquered without user OCRing or printing the document. Earlier this season, Austin Layton showed me this online tool for unlocking PDFs. It works flawlessly, so I figured that I'd pass it along. All you need to do is: save the…
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Awesome Tech Fix

Props to Adam Symonds for his paperless tech fix. UGA had been having issues where files transferred electronically (via Dropbox or email) were "losing" their macros -- the user on the recieving end couldn't "Send to Speech", etc. Well, there is a fix over at the Paperless Debate Wikispace. Enjoy! Problem: Someone from your team sends you a file made in your squad's template but when you open it all the macros aren't working. The toolbar is…
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