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Online facilitators should be able to see the entire room at all times → While it was helpful to have close-up views on mobile phones, it would be good to keep the macro view to see the entire roomĮveryone can always be heard: On-site participants should be able to hear online facilitators, and online facilitators can hear on-site participants → Having a room mic to pick up on-site participants’ voices would be helpfulĪvoid acoustic feedback → Because we are having multiple mics in one room, we sometimes heard an unpleasant howling sound. Since this was our first experience trying this new format, I wanted to write down what we might try next time in terms of technical setup. While Deanna and I were leading the workshop from afar, having Ellen and Ernie as local facilitators who were already familiar with the activity was very helpful.
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First of all, it was so important to hold a pre-workshop for the local educators, who were then able to facilitate the workshop in person on site in Rwanda. It was only a one-hour session, but this hybrid spinning tops workshop gave us some insights into how we can facilitate in the hybrid contexts. There was a lot of testing going on, and it was reflected in the documentation as well. People were spinning their tops, observing what was going on, and making small adjustments such as adding weights to their tops, changing the size, shaping the body, and so on. The variety of tops we saw throughout the workshop evidenced this. This way we were able to document the highlights of the workshop and we think it was very useful for communicating the workshop to members who weren't there.Įxploring the variables was an important aspect of this activity. Then, we arranged the screenshots with notes in chronological order on the Miro board. It felt very much as though we were co-facilitating the workshop.
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Meanwhile, Ernie was posting videos and pics of people testing their tops via WhatsApp during the workshop. If we noticed something interesting, Ellen would put us on the speaker, and we could comment or ask questions to the participants via her phone. Ellen walked around the room with her phone, allowing us to see what everyone was working on at each table. We took numerous screenshots of participants experimenting with their tops throughout the workshop.