With our friends at the Butter Community we got our hands all greasy and dirty in the Workshop Garage yesterday! The challenge?
Irene brought a case we could all emphasize with. How might we explore the causes & effects of a problem with a very diverse participant crowd!
In this example, diversity was related to:
+ different digital literacy levels
+ multiple languages
+ various devices, mobiles, desktops etc.
+ bandwidth limitations
We’ve put our heads together and came up with possible solutions for a sync workshop, an async option, and even a WhatApp workshop.
Some golden nuggets:
- Use the check-in and practical warm-ups to split the group based on spoken languages, or digital literacy
- Use the fishbone activity to identify behaviors, causes and effects
- If you are limited to mobile devices only, why not try out a WhatsApp workshop: Start with a group call for intros > use mini videos with instructions and text messages, invite everyone to work in the same document (Google Doc, Padlet, Jamboard) and close with a call for reflection and next steps.
See the full documentation with links to the tools in our open.ex-lab.de
Join the next Session!
We collect workshop problems and challenges from you out there and choose one to give our feedback on. In a second step we brainstorm with everyone who joins the call together about methods, timelines, warm-ups, order of activities to bring the best ideas forward. A true case clinic!
Our idea is to have a big feedback party — a free exchange of knowledge around how to make people work together nicely to achieve a goal. So if you are interested in learning more methods, getting inspiration and contribute to a concrete challenge…join us!
