Lovely - I think that's a first concrete answer to a way of "new
school" (just talking from my position - this could be turned into
an infographic and thus be "digestable" for millennials ;)
Thanks so much for this great summary, Beverly!
Am 19.03.2020 um 17:56 schrieb Bev
Wenger-Trayner:
I love this thread :-)
I¡¯ve summarized the discussion so far. Each one of
the headings could be a thread in itself!
Bev
*The question*
How do we convert meetings to a combination of
synchronous and asynchronous communication? Currently everyone
seems to be rushing to do things in real time, whereas in ¡°the
old days¡± with more asynchronous communication we were able to
have more thoughtful conversations that built on each other.
(Nancy)
*Contextualized
example 1*
Taking a f2f student course online
- Zoom for student presentations
- Quiz on moodle
- Materials online
- Prompts for asynchronous conversations
(Cristina)
*Contextualized
example 2*
Taking a course about how ordinary
people can create systems change online
- Instead of asking ¡°What will it take to move this
class online?¡± we asked "What do we want this class to
accomplish? What needs to be in place for students to
accomplish that?"
- A 5 day face-to-face became a year of online
classes
- Slower pace
- Increased facilitation and participation
- Flipped classrooms
- Online time was all given to interaction
We learned that:
- meeting online can form community just as quick
as online
- start from scratch with the purpose of the
gathering and creating conditions for each participant to
accomplish that purpose
(Hilde)
*Tools for
(meaningful) asynchronous conversation*
- Difficult to find a good asynchronous discussion
tool these days. Most are designed for just-in-time help or
quick messages, not for a sustained dialog. We need threaded
conversations that you can sort in multiple ways. (Bev)
- Younger generation need a multi-media mix.
(Cristina)
*Tool
suggestions*
- used at
NASA-USAID (Simone)
-
(Mark)
?
*Practices for
converting meetings to asynchronous and synchronous*
- Have asynchronous sessions during a live session
(Bill)
- Give people as many options as possible e.g.
recording a video, video + summary in writing, +
slideshare¡. (Hilde)
- Have context and purpose guide the decision about
what tools to use (Hilde)
*Reasons for
more asynchronous*
- If you also have kids in the house, it¡¯s easier
to do asynchronous at times that work round household
schedule (Sarah)
*Pragmatic
questions*
- Good materials and formats online require a lot
of time. Who¡¯s paying? (Cristina)
The free version of Slack has a limit on
messages. The paid version is by seat, which is ok within
orgs, and much more challenging for groups that are not
within an org boundary. There is no higher level "line of
sight" to messages as well. So great for the quicker
interchanges. More challenging to really read, weave, make
sense in the "old skool" sense!
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