VolT Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 Hello Ladies and Gents! I would like to invite you all to participating in reading Objectivism with me through a book club format, but online. The book is heavy for me, so it will be nice to socialize the experience and conquer it together! First of all I'll mention what the format will be, Objective of this book club will be to: * To support/encourage the group of readers to thoroughly comprehend the concepts given by the book.* To motivate the group of readers towards the completion of the book.* To extract more value for the reader by:---- Group Activities -------- Support time to answer questions to clarify a particular concept that the reader may have found difficult.-------- Discussing extracted concepts - ( Which will encourage thorough concept extraction )-------- Discussing definitions - ( Which will increase eye for detail)-------- Discussing test cases - (Playing with concepts in the book) We will do this by: * Meeting online once every 2 weeks, to discuss about the next chapter with some of the topics mentioned above (these are preliminary values, can change for majority) ---- At this rate it is a 6 month commitment. ---- We will have the club meeting at the end of the 2 weeks, discussing the most recent chapter that has been read. * Maybe meet online using Skype? * Currently I think that there should be a maximum of 6 people in group, else discussions may become difficult. * We will first wait for full member sign up. Then sync to know when all members get the book, then talk about meeting hours. We can also have an initial meeting where we can introduce our selves and start the book club off. If you think we can extract more value by thinking from another perspective? Let me know! If you are on the fence about joining due to one of the above requirements? Let me know! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. 3
K.o.t.H. Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 I have read the book and felt like it was a good prerequisite to reading Introduction to Objective Epistemology. I am open to rereading the book along with a group, I actually love the idea of going through it together and making sure everyone grasps the ideas in the book. I will have to ask for the book back from a FOO member who I hoped would read it, as well as other AR books I loaned him, he never read it. Personally I like the idea.
ParaSait Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 I'd be up for it! Haven't read the book before.
GYre0ePJhZ Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 Perfect! I'm in. I started listening to it just the other day. Love the structured format. Skype is fine for me although I have heard some prefer hangouts.I am uncertain of one thing though, did you mean we would meet to discuss the concepts of the next chapter that we have not already read or discuss each chapter after we have read the chapter?
VolT Posted October 10, 2014 Author Posted October 10, 2014 K.o.t.H = I am very happy to hear, having at least one person which has read the book can be very valuable!ParaSait = Neither have I, I read the first chapter and It was very confusing for me. So we are on the same page!Avalanche = It is to discuss each chapter after we have read the chapter. I also updated the post to add this point. Thanks!Updates made to the original post:* We will have the club meeting at the end of the 2 weeks, discussing the most recent chapter that has been read.* Support time to answer questions to clarify a particular concept that the reader may have found difficult.* Changed to 6 people maximum (due to also providing support to clarify concepts)* We will first wait for full member sign up. Then sync to know when all members get the book, then talk about meeting hours. We can also have an initial meeting where we can introduce our selves and start the book club off. Also can we think about what type of tools we may need. So for communication we have 1) Skype 2) Hangouts, Shall we also arrange a shared whiteboard? If we decide to do things like mindmaps, or highlighting a particular concept, then it will be useful for the discussion to have the concept highlighted and listed with its points. Also possible makes figuring out test cases easier. Also reduces possibility of conversation going off topic. 1) https://awwapp.com/ What about a method of tracking our outputs such as whiteboards or documents that we may have produced? (not sure of necessity) 1) Redbooth
GYre0ePJhZ Posted October 11, 2014 Posted October 11, 2014 Sounds brilliant with some sort of whiteboard while we discuss. I am not sure of the necessity of tracking the documents though, I am predicting they will be messy and thus hard to make use of later.
ParaSait Posted October 11, 2014 Posted October 11, 2014 Yea, the whiteboard idea is great. We can also use a text document on google docs if that turns out to be too messy (you can share and multiplayer edit those in the same way)
VolT Posted October 12, 2014 Author Posted October 12, 2014 This post has probably died out of peoples view by now, I will advertise once in general topics to grab 2 more people. If this fails we will start off with the 4 of us here. To improve organization I will also give you guys my email, and when you get a copy of the book send me an email =).
VolT Posted October 12, 2014 Author Posted October 12, 2014 Advertised: https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/42128-online-book-club/
VolT Posted October 13, 2014 Author Posted October 13, 2014 I have found a fifth member, my wife will be joining us too!
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