
Many of my friends have found various websites that I am involved with, and now a couple have asked me to put out a list of them. So, that is what I am going to do today. Perhaps this will convince me to shut some of them down.
PERSONAL WEBSITESALFRED SNIDER
http://alfredsnider.blogspot.com/This is the one you are looking at now. It has little to do with debate and everything to do with me. It has random postings about myself, my adventures, my feeling and some of the events of my life. You probably need to know me to understand it. It is a
blogspot site, so it is not very fancy.
MY HOUSE IN MEXICO
http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/mex/Welcome.htmlThis website is all about my house in Mexico. In 1960, my father started work on a piece of beach property in
Baja California. It was on a small bay and the village was called
Puetecitos. It is 52 miles south of San Felipe, a small port city at the northern end of the Sea of
Cortez (Gulf of California). I have kept the place in the family and use it as my escape vacation home. I try and go there each May and December.
We have no telephone service, electricity when we run a generator to recharge laptop &
ipods, no running water, and a flush toilet that operates on sea water you carry up from the beach right in front of the house. The house is a three bedroom model built out of beautiful natural stone, and features a huge porch. The name "Snider's Snare" was given to it some 25 years ago, and seems to have stuck.
This website will have a blog that updates while I am there and when I am missing the place. Nice Google map that allows you to actually see the house on the
beach from space.
DOCTOR WHO THEATER
http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/dw/I am a huge Doctor Who fan. I started hosting Doctor Who Theater on Monday nights back in 1989. The new episodes that had been produced were just ending and I wanted to keep viewing and enjoying Doctor Who. People were invited and we picked an episode from my (fairly) vast collection and watched it.
It became a real tradition and has gone through some changes at the same time. We used to draw episodes out of a hat, we went through a streak where we watched every episode over a period of years, we strung them together into "themes," and a lot more. We have had as many as 25 and as few as 1 person show up. When I am out of town there may not be a screening but often I appoint a guest host.
Now that there are fabulous new episodes (four seasons worth and two spin-off shows) there is a lot of new stuff to watch.
The viewing group has been dubbed "The High Council" and we have a lot of fun. Because of the nature of Doctor Who there is a lot of room for talking back to the screen, either about bad effects, flubbed lines, clever lines and a number of specific things we look for, such as "hiding in plain sight" or "HIPS" and the ever-popular refrain, "I hate it when that happens."
COLLEGE OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE
http://collegeofmusicalknowledge.blogspot.com/REGGAE LUNCH
http://reggaelunch.blogspot.com/You will will find mp3 copies of my many radio shows, the COLLEGE OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE (experimental music) and the REGGAE LUNCH (roots reggae radio). I did radio programs on
WRUV-FM Burlington, Vermont 90.1 for eighteen years. These archived shows are made available to those interested. Download the MP3 file, load it into your MP3 player, and ENJOY. There may be a slight pause between side A and side B of the original cassette tape, so be patient. These files are legal to download and listen to.
A complete archives of my radio programs can be found at
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listenMY PICTURE ALBUMS
http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/travelpix/Welcome.htmlI travel a lot. Here are some photo albums of various trips I have taken. I do not have them all in here because I do not have time, but a lot of them are here.
MY CALENDAR
http://debate.uvm.edu/tunacalendar.htmlYes, I have a calendar that reaches three years into the future. This is what I use at the end of the year to count up how many travel days I have had. Last year, 132.
MY NEWS WEBSITE
http://debate.uvm.edu/news.htmlWhere I go to check the news each day. Lots of links.
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OLD AND DISCONTINUED PERSONAL WEBSITESOLD MEXICO WEBSITE
http://debate.uvm.edu/tunamexico.htmlOLD DEBATE TRAVELS WEBSITE
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GENERAL DEBATE WEBSITESGLOBAL DEBATE
http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/All the news about debating. Competition and educational debating are only a part of what we cover, as we also feature stories about debate in other and often wider societal contexts. This is a branch of the
Debate Central website, on the web since 1994. Check out the history of the project.
This blog is a continuation of the original Global Debate Blog established at http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/.
DEBATE CENTRAL
http://debate.uvm.edu/This is the largest and most complete debate training website in the world. It connects you to sample debates and extensive video libraries of lectures for all formats of debating. It accesses older and new material and creates a continuity of debate instruction. As of March 1 2009 a Google search for "debate training" brings up this website first. Almost any variation in the word "debate" beings it up in the first five. The few links on the front page can be useful as well. This is the one that started it all in 1994.
DEBATE VIDEO BLOG
http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/Here you will find a wide assortment of debating related videos, including debates, lectures, discussions, speeches and other material dealing with debating in all different styles and formats. This site handles
podcasts delivered from our server as well as Google,
Vimeo and YouTube videos. Many other debate videos can be found at Debate Central at
http://debate.uvm.edu/watch.html . Other videos can be found of the
Flashpoint Television website.
A raw archive of debate videos for download is at
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/?M=DNEWS FOR DEBATERS
http://debate.uvm.edu/newsfordebaters.htmlThis page is a collection of links for debaters to use to quickly pursue information about any current event. I designed this for some of the debate workshops I taught at when discussing how to prepare to show them how I become prepared to deal with current news issues.
WORLD DEBATE INSTITUTE
FOR NEWS
http://worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com/TO REGISTER
http://learn.uvm.edu/wdi/"A boot camp for the brain, and for free speech as well." -New York Times
For over 25 years the World Debate Institute (
WDI) has been offering the best in debate instruction to an increasingly international audience.
Each summer there is the
WDI main program held at the University of Vermont for high school and university debaters as well as for high school and university teachers and instructors. Contact Janet
Nunziata at janet.nunziata@uvm.edu.
Each November there is the International Debate Institute held in Europe for one week, along with an additional tournament, for university debaters. You can get information about it at http://internationaldebateacademy.blogspot.com/ . Contact
Bojana Skrt at bojana.skrt@siol.net.
INTERNATIONAL DEBATE ACADEMY SLOVENIA
FOR NEWS
http://internationaldebateacademy.blogspot.com/FOR REGISTRATION
http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.htmlIt is the most international
WUDC Format Debate Training in the world with a distinguished training group. Attendees have come from over 29 different debating nations. The program involves a rigorous combination of lectures, skill exercise sessions and two practice debates per day. A major tournament will take place at the end. This year the tournament at the end of the Academy is open to all interested university debaters, so everybody who does not have time to come for the whole week can join us only for the tournament.
Sat 21 November 2009 arrival, finish on 29 November 2009 at tournament.
Once again it will be in
Ormoz, tournament will be in Ljubljana.
WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, WASHINGTON, DC, USA 2008
http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wsdc/Welcome.htmlThis is the website I built for the
WSDC tournament 2008n where I worked as the director of
tournament operations under convener
Phyllis Hirth. I had a good time, learned a lot about
WSDC and produced this booklet-like website.
THINKING & SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD -- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARGUMENTATION, RHETORIC, DEBATE AND CRITICAL
PEDAGOGYhttp://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/better/Welcome.htmlI have been involved in organizing this conference for the last two times that it met. Here is the new website for the conference.
USUDC RESULTS
http://debate.uvm.edu/usudc/usudctab0809.htmlHere I try and gather together all results from
WUDC format tournaments in the USA. This
is the one place where you can track results. I may or may not continue this beyond 2009.
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VERMONT DEBATE WEBSITESLAWRENCE DEBATE UNION
http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/The_Team.htmlThis is quite an involved website with a lot of stuff that changes. The newsletter, THE VOICE OF EDWIN is the centerpiece here, as it goes out every week to a huge mailing list of alumni and supporters. There are also photo galleries and a new video arcade where you can watch various
LDU events.
FLASHPOINT TELEVISION
http://flashpointtv.blogspot.com/Flashpoint is the regular television program of the Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont. The program now has over 375 shows to its credit.
Flashpoint is a program of issues and ideas. Debaters and coaches from the
LDU pick a topic and research it intensively before the program.
The program consists of a fast-paced discussion of the topic and its related issues. Experts are not sought for the program, because it attempts to show that intelligent citizens can learn about an issue for themselves and then have informed and logical opinions -- which is what citizens should do. If you have comments about our program, please contact us at debate@uvm.edu.
The program has been filmed at
UVM and around the world, but is mostly filmed at the studios of Vermont Community Access Media (
VCAM) in Burlington. It is aired on Burlington cable channel 15 three times a week. It is also available through Burlington
Telecomm. Selected programs can also be viewed online as streaming videos at this and other sites. Older programs can be seen at http://debate.uvm.edu/flashpoint.html.
US UNIVERSITIES DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP
http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/usu/Welcome.htmlThis website was constructed to publicize our bid to host this tournament. After we got the bid it turned into our information website for the tournament. After the tournament it will probably become a website to promote the
WUDC format in America. It already has a section where I post all of the invitations I know of for such tournaments. It has a team list for the tournament already and registration is open.
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ACADEMIC WEBSITESCAMPAIGN RHETORIC
http://spch214camprhet.blogspot.com/I am teaching a seminar on the rhetoric of the 2008 presidential campaign. This website is just to keep my students up to dates and organized as we move through he course week by week.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
http://debate.uvm.edu/~asnider/busandprofcomm/This is a new online course I am working on. It will run from March-May and then again for the summer and the fall. It is strictly a survey course and does not get that much into depth, but I think it covers some areas that a lot of students need work in.
OLDER CLASS WEBSITES
http://debate.uvm.edu/tunaclasses.htmlHere are some links to some older classes. The pages are now stale but might be of interest.
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SUMMARY:
Too many, too fragmented, but I enjoy them. Some are updated daily, like GLOBAL DEBATE, while others are updated infrequently.
Now you know my secret sin - I am a compulsive blogger.