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How You Can Support Loquitur

April 16th, 2008  |  Published in General


Although the Loquitur Podcast is the product of our own intiative, we still depend heavily on the active support of our listening audience as a constant source of feedback and inspiration.

To this end, there are three simple, yet important ways you can show your support for Loquitur:

1. Join The Loquitur Facebook Group

It doesn’t cost you a thing to become a member of the Loquitur Facebook Group — and by joining, you let us know that you really care about the work we are doing.

2. Tell Us What You Think

E-mail us your thoughts on the interviews that we have already posted — and feel free to send us suggestions for future episodes, particularly regarding experts we should interview and/or the questions we should ask them. Our e-mail address is loqdebate-at-gmail.com.

And if don’t want to e-mail us, then consider posting your thoughts directly to this blog  – all this requires is clicking directly on the title of the post you wish to comment on, and then typing your comments into the text box that appears in the resulting window.  

Again — we really want to hear what you think about the work we are doing.

3. Spread The Word About Loquitur

If you like the Loquitur interviews that you’ve listened to thus far, then please (please!) tell your friends and colleagues about us.

The easiest way to do this is by using the ShareThis Link located at the bottom of each post on this blog. Using ShareThis, you can e-mail links to this blog directly to your friends, and you can also share links to this blog via any of the major Web content aggregators (e.g., Digg). 

Also, if you happen to have your own weblog or website, please consider posting a link to our site.

It may not seem like much, but by showing your support for Loquitur in these three ways, you make a huge difference in terms of the work we do — and we can’t thank you enough for it.

Welcome JoanneJacobs.Com Readers!

April 6th, 2008  |  Published in General

Welcome JoanneJacobs.Com Readers, to Loquitur.

And thank you, Joanne Jacobs, for the link. We really appreciate it.

If you’re wondering what the Loquitur Blog/Podcast is all about, please consult the following post addressed to Instapundit Readers.

Welcome Instapundit Readers!

March 29th, 2008  |  Published in General

Welcome Instapundit Readers, to Loquitur.

And thank you, Professor Reynolds, for the link. We really appreciate it.

Now, I’m sure that more than a few of you out there are wondering about who we are and what this podcast is all about.

In short, Loquitur is a brand-new Internet podcast dedicated to interviewing academic and professional experts on current National Forensic League debate topics for the free educational benefit of high school students competing in Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum Debate. 

To that end, for those of you who are familiar with the world of competitive high school debate — particularly, Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Public Forum Debate — please read our open letter to high school debate coaches and students.

And for those of you academics and professionals out there visiting our blog for the first time, please read our open letter to academics and professionals.

Please also visit our About Page to learn more about the “geniuses” behind Loquitur.

Otherwise, we hope you enjoy the show!

And do tell us what you think about the podcast and our mission — or if you’d like to help us out with what we’re trying to accomplish here.

E-mail us at  loqdebate-at-gmail.com

Welcome to Loquitur!

February 29th, 2008  |  Published in General,Podcast

 
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Welcome to Loquitur — a brand-new Internet podcast dedicated to interviewing academic and professional experts on current National Forensic League debate topics for the free educational benefit of high school students competing in Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum Debate.

Loquitur is brought to you courtesy of Trinity Briefs and Georgia Forensics Daily.

Loquitur is not affiliated with or sponsored by the National Forensic League.

Your Hosts

The Loquitur Podcast is co-hosted by Mahesha Subbaraman and Brandon Sheats.

Mahesha Subbaraman is a high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and the creator of Colloquy.

Brandon Sheats is an assistant debate coach at Henry W. Grady High School in Atlanta, GA, where he has coached twelve competitors to the NFL National Tournament (a district record) and twenty competitors to the CFL Grand Nationals. Brandon’s students have also cleared many national circuit tournaments, including the Florida Blue Key, Wake National Earlybird, and the Carrollton Peach State Classic. He is also the director/editor of Georgia Forensics Daily.

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