This contains a description of the methods used in the workshop as well as links to helpful external teaching resources.
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- Connect with the people in a meaningful way
- Let people interact on a very personal and direct level
- Create a socially nice athmosphere towards the end to have good memory about the session
- Get straight into it, no bullshit around!
- Discuss 3 questions in small groups (~5), sum up in large circle
- After people did some content mining, more towards the end of a workshop
- useful to wrap up things and get a meta-perspective
** Before workshop**
- Think of 3-4 questions that open up a discussion, e.g.
- What are opportunities created through content mining?
- What are barrier for content mining?
- How can content mining help you?
- write these questions down on flipchart
- rearrange room / tables to allow for groups of 4-5 people to sit together
** At workshop**
- Explain the next session (2min)
- “How knows what a world cafe is? “
- Art of Hosting Method
- 3 rounds of 5min with one question for each.
- Groups of 4-5 people
- Discuss at a table. start straight into it. 5mins are not too much, so dont waste time.
- Write down your thoughts. For this you have pens and a sheet. s
- After bell rings, one person stays and everyone else leaves to another table. decide yourself on the table who does what.
- At the end after the 3 rounds we will discuss the outcome in a big round/circle were we are going to harvest on a meta level.
- Sum Up: Get in your round, discuss the questions and document main points on your sheet.
- “Questions?”
- Set up space(1min)
- “So, let’s start it. Please get together in groups of 4-5 people.”
- give sheets and pens to groups
- Everyone at a table, a sheet and 1-2 pens?
- three rounds (5min + 1min moving):
- Check the tables: "everything ok?"
- signal after 4min: "1 minute left"
- Finish with virtual bell
- Switch tables
- Switch to big circle (1min)
- “Let’s rearrange the tables and chairs to one big circle
- when not enough place for all, 2nd, 3rd row
- Circle with Harvesting (10min)
- explain it: everyone can go into the middle and speak about something he/she experience. meta level. we collect this on an own sheet. circle is perfect form to bring things together.
- if not enough time for all: ask one person from each table to summarize for meta-harvest after the three rounds.
- a bell - real or virtual to signal start/end of rounds
- Flipchart pens and sheets
- sticky tape
- postits
- 45min
- too many participants (>20):
- create additional tables for more rotation
- not enough participants (<6):
- do the rounds together
- no one starts talking in the big circle: give quick own impression
- let people do something by themselves and create individual results
- let them learn in groups
- learning by doing
- show them the magic of content mining
- as often as possible
- let people form teams of two (1min)
- condition: have at least one working laptop per two
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make sure every team has the software and data (5-10min)
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explain whats going to happen and what they will be able to do after the session (use case)
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introduce them to the concept to learn by demoing an example
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have them reproduce the example
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repeat: what is the use case, what is the problem, how are we going to solve it?
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go through code / explain raw data
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provide some small task/quiz:
- find information xyz
- we have x, we want z, please do y
- enable sandbox environment:
- let people explore on their own
- go around, check if help needed
- summarize:
- what have you found?
- what were the problems?
- did you solve them? yes, how? no, what barrier? - should be identified during sandboxing
- discuss/compare outcomes
- laptops
- code examples
- data examples
45min - 90min
2 - 15
- high participant / facilitator ratio:
- ask advanced participants to help after they managed