New CEDA Website Launched

http://cedadebate.org

From Jeff Jarman:

This is the first official announcement about the new CEDA website. The address is the same, but the form and content have changed. We are attempting to bring CEDA into the 21st century. The website will serve as the first place to look for new information. Members can find new information on the front page, with blog-style posting of current events by members of the Executive Council. Plus, a new forum provides a place for all registered users to post and reply to pertinent topics. Most all of the archival information has been transfered to the site, too.

What should you do: REGISTER. This is essential, especially if you want to vote for the 2008-2009 topic and pending amendments. How? Go to www.cedadebate.org, click on the link for "create new account," and be sure to use the correct registration code: CeDaWeB.

After you register, you'll be able to immediately post in the forum and reply to posts. After a few days, I'll confirm your registration and you'll be able to vote.

In the next few days I'll post a brief written tutorial about the site, along with a video, to demonstrate the site.

I'm sure there will be some problems with the site in the short-term, so please be patient. But, as always, send me your feedback about changes that will benefit everyone.

Jeff

From the CEDA website:

Founded in 1971 as the Southwest Cross Examination Debate Association, CEDA is now the primary national association promoting policy topic intercollegiate academic debate.
In cooperation with the National Debate Tournament Committee and the American Debate Association, CEDA formulates the annual intercollegiate policy debate topic used in tournament competition throughout the nation.

CEDA acts as a tournament sanctioning agent, providing through its Constitution and By-Laws a framework for normalizing tournament practices and procedures. Throughout the tournament season, CEDA calculates the National Sweepstakes Standings, the national and regional rankings of member institutions based on compiled tournament results.
The association also hosts an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 200 individual debate teams from across the nation to compete for a national team championship.

One of CEDA's most important functions is to serve as a professional association for scholars and teachers in the field of applied argumentation and debate. In addition to sponsoring scholarly programs on issues of interest to association members at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, CEDA has organized two indigenous scholarly assessment conferences: The 1991 St. Paul 20th Anniversary Assessment Conference, and the 2001 Tahoe Conference on Academic Debate. CEDA also publishes Contemporary Argumentation and Debate: The Journal of the Cross Examination Debate Association, a refereed scholarly journal that serves as the primary outlet for monographs and essays addressing issues related to the theory and practice of academic debate.