Dotmocracy

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Dotmocracy The
Lunch-Room Dilemma
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What is Dotmocracy?

• Dotmocracy is fun democracy.
• Everyone had a say in how were going to solve
  the lunchroom dilemma.
• Each student and staff member read the parts of
  the problem that we were all assigned to and what
  their solution was.
• Then the people chosen to participate in
  Dotmocracy read the possible solutions and wrote
  what they believed would improve the ideas.
• Then we voted and put a dot (thats what the dot
  is in dotmocracy) between excellent, good, ok,
  not so good, and disagree completely. Then we
  switched stations and went to a new problem to
  vote.

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How we used it

• First everyone sat down on their designated
  tables with other classroom/grade students. Each
  person talked about what they liked about the
  solution for the different grade level problem.
  Then they wrote down what they liked, disliked,
  and wrote what a good idea to add would be. Then
  they voted and signed their names. Later on we
  will tally up the votes and see what the majority
  of the voters thought and choose what is the best.

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All in all

• Everybody seemed to think it was awesome and we
  had a lot of fun discussing the matters of the
  problem and solution. By the way everyone worked
  it looked like everyone had a good time. Next we
  will be counting the votes and tally them up and
  then we will make decisions based on the lunch
  room procedures with the votes.

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What we thought

• Teachers, Paras, students, and everyone else
  liked Dotmocracy and they liked that everyone
  could write down everything they liked and
  disliked. Everyone got a chance to talk and say
  what they wanted.

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Next steps

• Classroom representatives share information with
  homerooms. next step is too develop five rules in
  the lunchroom that your class can live with. Then
  send them to Ms. Stoicovy by Friday. Our next
  representative meeting is in the faculty room at
  900 AM on Monday.