Use of the Potter Box comprises four steps, including “Definition”, “Values,” “Principles,” and “Loyalties.” Since it is iterative, the four-step process repeats itself as more information becomes available, as “values” become clearer, as stakeholders’ ethical principles gel, and as “loyalties” become plain.
The Box-user begins with Definition, a place of facts accumulation in which data are amassed from across cultures, perspectives, and disciplines. Examples of how “Definition” works in various cultures and across curricular boundaries will be seen, and participants will be asked to comment. Indeed, as each step of Box-making proceeds, Q & A, as well as brainstorming, will take place, so as to stimulate participation and discussion, as well as to develop ideas.
Katherine Watson, Coastline Community College, Fountain Valley, California, USADr. Watson has been teaching French, English, linguistics, anthropology, and English as a Foreign Language for more than four decades, at first among fieldworkers in New England, then in traditional classrooms, then through television, and finally, online. She was named by the Annenberg/ CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) Project to co-conceive, develop, and teach in the Project’s first online initiative, French in Action Online, and her French Topics was the first completely-online offering in California’s Coast Community College District. Dr. Watson’s papers have been published here and abroad, by IDEA, Syllabus, Virginia Tech, Temple University, The League for Innovation, NISOD, and The International Conference on Teaching and Learning, among others. In addition, Dr. Watson is a professional translator and interpreter and trained interpreters for the United States Olympic Committee and during the World Cup. Apart from these activities, sailing and swimming and reading and writing provide joy!
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