Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Community... Take it or Leave It!

Greetings from Leadershape. Yesterday was Day One for the students... though it was day three for me(I'm beginning to feel like an Austin native). Yesterday's theme for the day was Building Community. The idea is that before we can begin developing leaders, we must build a safe community in which these students can share.

Mark, my co-lead facilitated an icebreaker yesterday that I thought could be fun for our group. We (highlowaha), after all, are working on building a community of readers, so the idea of community building seems relevant. The better we know one another, the more able we are to provide ideas catering to the group's interests.

The activity required the group of 60 students to move from one side of the room to the other depending upon preferences. For instance...

"American Idol... Take it or leave it?"
"Coke or Pepsi?"
"Today or Tomorrow?"
"Hawaii or Paris?"
"Morning person or night owl?"
"Formal or informal"

So let's get to know each other better... Answer the six questions I posted and then add one or two of your own. The list will get progressively longer and we'll each commit to answering as many as we can. I might even print off our cumulative list of questions and use it as an activity one night at the dinner table.

Me...

American Idol.... Take it (think of me tomorrow night. I'll be missing it!)!
Coke
Hawaii
Morning person
Formal

Your Turn...

Signing off until tomorrow...


35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Leave it(never even watched 5mins).
Pepsi.
Paris.
Morning.
Informal.

Hugs or kisses?

The Griffin Family said...

Leave it
Coke
Today
Hawaii
Morning person and night owl (I have a 7 month old)
Formal
Hugs

Cats or dogs?

Anonymous said...

Oops forgot one.
Today.
Hugs.
Cat.

Beach or mountains?

Jess said...

Take it
Pepsi
Paris
Morning
Informal
Moutains
Dogs
Both Hugs and Kisses of course!

Anonymous said...

American Idol: Leave it
Coke or Pepsi: Coke!
Today or Tomorrow: Tomorrow
Paris or Hawaii: Hawaii
Morning or Night: Morning person
Formal or Informal:Informal
Hugs or Kisses: Hugs(but only from my family)
Cats or Dogs? I have cats but would prefer neither
Beach or Mountains: Beach

Email or Phone?

Anonymous said...

CKB: Today or Tomorrow?

I had to go with Tomorrow since I'm such a procrastinator.

Anonymous said...

leave it
Pepsi
Today
Hawaii
Morning
Informal
Hugs
Both cats and dogs
Beach
Phone
Warm or cold weather? Me..warm, warm, warm!

Anonymous said...

Leave it - really I prefer So You Think You Can Dance
Coke - but really a Sprite does it for me.
Today
Paris
Morning person
Formal
Hugs
Dogs - definately!!!
Beach & Mountains!

The Book or The Movie??
E-mail
Warm weather

Anonymous said...

I didn't get to comment yesterday, but I still want to respond. My family played a LOT of car games since my parents lived two hours apart and my brother and I made the trip every other weekend. Dad really made the most of car ride, since it took a chunk of our QT. We'd make up silly lyrics to the songs on the radio or he'd start a crazy story and stop after a bit to have my brother and I add to the plot.

Anonymous said...

ohhh, fun!

American Idol: Leave it
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
Today or Tomorrow: Today
Paris or Hawaii: Hawaii
Morning or Night: Night
Formal or Informal: Informal
Hugs or Kisses: Hugs
Cats or Dogs: Dogs
Beach or Mountains: Hmmm, Mountains, but that's a toss up
Email or Phone: EMAIL
Warm or cold weather: WARM
The Book or The Movie: Book's better, but Movie is faster...I'll go with Movie

White or Dark Chocolate? Dark for me

Anonymous said...

Good morning Highlowaha-ers!

LEAVE IT! I agree w/ Mel - So you think you can dance!
Pepsi (but w/ Cherry)
Today
Hawaii
Night
Informal - jeans and a hoodie it is!
Hugs
Dogs
Beach
Email
Warm
Movie
White Chocolate

Flip-flops or sneakers/tennis shoes (whatever you wanna call them)

Cheryl Houston said...

American Idol: Leave it
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
Today or Tomorrow: Today
Paris or Hawaii: Hawaii
Morning or Night: I would prefer to be a morning person... but I'm not always.
Formal or Informal: Depends on the day. I probably lean more towards informal.
Hugs or Kisses: kisses(but love both)
Cats or Dogs: Neither! And no fish or birds either!
Beach or Mountains: Beach
Email or Phone: EMAIL
Warm or cold weather: Warm
The Book or The Movie: Book
White or Dark Chocolate: White
Flip-flops or sneakers: High heel flip-flops

maureen said...

This is funny....

American Idol...... David Cook's gonna win!!!!
Pepsi
Hawaii
morning person
formal
today
hugs
dogs
beach.... I hate the cold
phone
warm
book
dark
flip flops.....unless its winter


kids or adults???

maureen said...

I like kids better !

Layne said...

american idol---both davids are gonna be in the top two
diet coke
paris--never been there
morning person
more like casual
both hugs and kisses

maureen said...

LAYNE.... YOUR DAVID WILL STILL BE THE BEST!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Kids
Phone
Warm
Book
White
Sneakers
Kids

Anonymous said...

You Guys,
Go to kiddlive.com and buy Freddy's song!
He has a fun story and a great voice.

Anonymous said...

American Idol: Leave it
Coke or Pepsi: neither, i dont drink soda... but when i used to, pepsi!
Today or Tomorrow: tomorrow
Paris or Hawaii: Hawaii, because i have never been, and have been to paris!
Morning or Night: night really, buts its weird because im more of an early to bed earlier to rise person compared to other college students
Formal or Informal: informal
Hugs or Kisses: hugs probably
Cats or Dogs: dogs, and pretty much any other animal BUT cats!
Beach or Mountains: Beach for sure
Email or Phone: email
Warm or cold weather: Warm for sure!
The Book or The Movie: Book, i love to read
White or Dark Chocolate: DARK
Flip-flops or sneakers: flip-flops, even in the winter!
Kids or adults: kids!

italian or mexican food?

i find that a very hard one, i just love food! hehe... and i cant pick because it depends on how i feel. but i ate mexican yesterday for cinco de mayo!!

Cheryl Houston said...

I love Freddy, too! I tried to buy his song this morning but I never received an email for the download...

I have to pick between kids and adults? Can't be done because it definetly depends on who's kids and which adults!! I like a nice mixture of both- but they have to be nice kids and nice adults!

And another hard choice... Mexican or Italian? OMG! Just shoot me now! Why don't you just ask me if I like Oxygen or not? Today and today only my choice will be... Mexican.

Anonymous said...

This is super fun!

Take it (though this season is getting on my nerves).
Coke.
Today (or tomorrow if I wait too long to get started on today).
Hawaii.
Night owl.
Informal.
Hugs.
Cats.
Beach.
Email.
Cold weather.
The book.
White chocolate.
Flip flops.
Kids or adults? That depends on the day and my mood.
Mexican more often, but Italian is another favorite.

And because I can't resist, I'm adding TWO new choices:

Thanksgiving or Christmas? (A difficult choice for me, actually, but Thanksgiving = more quality time with immediate family + better food + more time to relax.)

Homebody or travel-junkie? (I'm usually a homebody, but love to travel, so I'll go with travel-junkie on this on.)

Anonymous said...

American Idol: Leave it
Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi
Today or Tomorrow: tomorrow
Paris or Hawaii: Paris
Morning or Night: Morning
Formal or Informal: Informal
Hugs or Kisses: Hugs
Cats or Dogs: Dogs
Beach or Mountains: Mountains
Email or Phone: Phone
Warm or cold weather: Cold
The Book or The Movie: Book
White or Dark Chocolate: Dark
Flip-flops or sneakers: Sneakers
Kids or adults: Kids
Italian or Mexican food: Italian

New Question - Cake or Pie?

Anonymous said...

In response to Stacie's questions

Thanksgiving or Christmas: Christmas (you get to give gifts)
Homebody or Travel Junkie: Homebody

Anonymous said...

I don't have time to respond just yet to all the new questions but I wanted to remind all the readers with children that this week is Teacher Appreciation Week...don't forget to thank your children's teachers for all they do.

Anonymous said...

Email or Phone: Email without a doubt
Warm or cold weather: WARM!!!
The Book or The Movie: The movie
White or Dark Chocolate: White
Flip-flops or sneakers: flip flops
Kids or adults: Kids
Italian or Mexican food: Italian(surprising change since pregnancy)
Thanksgiving or Christmas: Christmas (you get to give gifts)
Homebody or Travel Junkie: travel
Cake or Pie: Pie

maureen said...

In response to the new questions....
homebody
Christmas... Although I have been cooking Thanksgiving dinner since Nov. of 1989 faithfully!
Cake or pie... it depends! If I have ice cream in the house its pie otherwise cake

heres a new one ......
Are you a Mac or a PC
I just became a Mac and there's no returning for me (ha ha)

Katie said...

American Idol: Take it
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
Today or Tomorrow: Tomorrow
Paris or Hawaii: Paris
Morning or Night: Night
Formal or Informal:Informal
Hugs or Kisses: Hugs
Cats or Dogs? Dogs
Beach or Mountains: Mountains
Email or Phone: Email
Warm or cold weather: cold
The Book or The Movie: The book
White or Dark Chocolate: White
Flip-flops or sneakers: flip flops
Kids or adults: Kids
Italian or Mexican food: Mexican
Thanksgiving or Christmas: Thanksgiving
Homebody or Travel Junkie: travel
Cake or Pie: Pie

Anonymous said...

American Idol: Take it
Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi
Today or Tomorrow: Tomorrow
Paris or Hawaii: Hawaii
Morning or Night: Night
Formal or Informal:Informal
Hugs or Kisses: Kisses
Cats or Dogs? Cats
Beach or Mountains: Mountains
Email or Phone: Phone
Warm or cold weather: Cold
The Book or The Movie: The book
White or Dark Chocolate: Milk
Flip-flops or sneakers: flip flops
Kids or adults: Kids
Italian or Mexican food: Italian
Thanksgiving or Christmas: Christmas
Homebody or Travel Junkie: Homebody
Cake or Pie: Cake
PC or Mac: Mac

Anon

Cheryl Houston said...

wrapping up the rest of the questions:

Thanksgiving or Christmas: Thanksgiving
Homebody or Travel Junkie: Homebody
Cake or Pie: Cake
Mac or PC: As long as it gets me connected to the internet and plays iTunes I could care less. I love em both.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

American Idol: Leave it
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
Today or Tomorrow: Today!
Paris or Hawaii: Hawaii
Morning or Night: Morning
Formal or Informal:Informal
Hugs or Kisses: Kisses
Cats or Dogs? Dogs
Beach or Mountains: Mountains
Email or Phone: Phone
Warm or cold weather: Warm
The Book or The Movie: The book
White or Dark Chocolate: Milk
Flip-flops or sneakers: flip flops
Kids or adults: Kids
Italian or Mexican food: Italian
Thanksgiving or Christmas: Thanksgiving
Homebody or Travel Junkie: TRAVEL
Cake or Pie: Cake
PC or Mac: PC

iced coffee or hot coffee?

Anonymous said...

Leave it
Definately Coke
Today (Life is too short)
Paris
Nite Owl
Informal
Hugs
Definately Dogs
Beach!!!!
Email
Warm
Book
Dark Chocolate
Flips!!!
kids
Mexican
Xmas
Travel junkie
Cake
Mac
Iced Coffee

Vanilla or Chocolate Ice Cream?

Anonymous said...

American Idol: Leave it
Take it!
Coke (esp. Cherry)
Today
Paris
Night
Informal
Hugs
Neither
Beach

Katie said...

Mac or PC: I currently have a PC (which I hate) and will purchasing my first Mac this summer. You can never go wrong with a Mac!
Iced or Hot Coffe: In the morning, hot...any other time of the day, iced
Vanilla or Chocolate Ice Cream? Chocolate...I have to have more flavor than just vanilla

Anonymous said...

1st 2 seasons - take it. Season 3-present - leave it.
Diet Dr. Pepper
Today
Paris
Night Owl
Informal