Having moved numerous times to various cities and states, I've spent
a lot of time on a website called city-data.com. They have forums
where people can ask questions about housing, schools, jobs, safety,
and a wide spectrum of other issues having to do with moving to a new
city. I've seen a lot of "oscillations" from these posts. I think the
key is having a group who all have something in common (in this case,
knowledge of or interest in a particular city) and a desire for
multiple points of view.

Our online group had a few "oscillations," which is probably a result
of us not really having a unifying point of interest. Some were truly
interested in learning to lead an online discussion group, some were
mildly interested but willing to help out and offer input, and some
might not have had much interested but felt loyalty to the
facilitator and wanted to help him (I was the "mildly interested and
willing to help" person, dad). But I think David did a good job by
asking several follow-up questions to other people's posts in order
to expand on a particular idea.


--- In brotherhoodscroll@yahoogroups.com, "marcjdejeu" <marcj@...>
wrote:
>
> I would guess that the key to effectively keeping the conversation
> going in this setting is making sure that the initial question is
> open-ended enough to not be loaded/leading, and also making sure
that
> the follow-up questions are both keeping in line with the original
> intent of the first question AND building upon what has been
offered
> in the discussion thread already.
>
> David, I think that you do a great job of both, and that is not an
> easy thing. --- In brotherhoodscroll@yahoogroups.com, "dlantz6"
> <dlantz@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The "Fly Wheel Effect" is defined as the continuation of
> > oscillations in an oscillator after the control stimulus has been
> > removed. Here, the "control stimulus" is an initial discussion
> > question, and one or two follow up questions posed by the
discussion
> > group facilitator. From your experience here, how did it work,
and
> how
> > might you be able to employ this process to lead online discussion
> > groups of your own?
> >
> >
> >
> > #2 Due Day 4 (Friday)
> >
>