This reflection will be on Liberating structures, Online vs in-person learning, and open annotation.

What are liberating structures? From https://www.liberatingstructures.com/

“Liberating Structures introduce tiny shifts in the way we meet, plan, decide and relate to one another. They put the innovative power once reserved for experts only in hands of everyone.“

Basically, they are the way to promote brainstorming, discussion, collaboration, and participation in non-conventional ways. We fall into routines and conventions of interaction that can lead to stagnation. The website above offers a shwack of ways to avoid that. The title page says 33 structures can be found within the website. The one we used to practice was the mad tea exercise whose instructions can be found below (Pulled from Edci 336 slides made by Michael Paskevicius)

We discussed the best and worst parts of online learning during the mad tea exercise and were able to have a quick and engaged discussion! A fantastic tool I will carry forward with me.

Additionally, we looked at open annotation and https://web.hypothes.is/ which to me seems like another fantastic way to stir discussion and assess engagement.

Photo by William Fortunato from Pexels

Though to be honest I don’t have any user experience. I hope in the future I’ll have more time to explore and understand the site. Until then, it will remain safe in my resources bookmark tab!

Until Next time!

R