Week8_Sprint4#Pre-Assignment and Further Reading about Barcamp
What a BarCamp? FISh model of Collective Inquiry into Unconferences.
Questions and My findings:
(my notes)
From reading BarCamps and Unconferences and handbook;
Focus:
1/ Find out what a Baramp is?
BarCamp, is an ad-hoc “unconference” born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. An unconference is a participant-oriented meeting where the participants decide on the agenda, the topics to be discussed, the workshops and often even the time and place.
2/ How are they organised?
Al presentations are scheduled the day they happen Peale are goshered for sharing.
3/ What are the ‘rules’ of a BarCamp?
No spectators, on porticipants. Attendees must give a demo, a session, or her with one, or otherwise volunteer/contribute in some wan to support the event.
a. write the topic and name in a presentation shot;
b. only 3 words intro;
c. ask question, and be an interactive participant.
Investigate:
What other sort of Unconference formats are there are there and how do they work?
1/ Open Space Technology
Open Space Technology (OST) is a dynamic and productive meeting model. OST is suitable for meetings, strategic planning, building visions and manifestos, bringing out action plans, sharing ideas and thoughts, engaging in dialogue, conducting in-depth conversations, reviewing and evaluating implemented activities and programmes.
2/ Foo Camp
What makes Foo Camp interesting, aside from its invitation only status, is that there is no specific agenda until participants arrive. Invitees then have to create a plan on Friday night as to what lectures, demonstrations, and/or forums/discussions will take place. In addition to bringing people together with great technical skills to solve computer issues and computer Internet problems, Foo Camp aims to create relationships between hackers that will result in more innovative programming and technologies.
3/ Round Table Meeting
A round table is a meeting held around a round table, which has no chair and no place for attendants, and where everyone is equal. The concept is derived from the English legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table in the days of Camelot. It is a form of consultative meeting where there is equality and dialogue. It is a meeting where participants sit around a round table. In international or national political negotiations, the participants sit around a round table, or a square table but still in a circle, in order to avoid disputes over the number of seats and to show the equal status of the participants.
When we meet for the first workshop, you will Share: Pool and share your BarCamp Research.
Assigned reading part:
(Chapter 2 of Mob rule learning camps, unconferences, and trashing the talking head / Michelle Boule. Medford, N.J: CyberAge Books.)
Chapter 2: (Un)Defining a Camp or Unconference
An unconference may at times appear to be chaos in motion, but it is this distinct lack of structure that makes an unconference both a novel experience and a success.
OST: Open Space Technology
The idea was from a man who was called Harrison Owen. Like the hotel bar, the coffee break area can often yield not only the best connections, but the best conversations.
The mode: “In Open Space meetings, events and organizations, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance.” With no head and no sides, everyone has the same authority and right to participate. Circles, asserts Owen, “create communication.”
Common Unconference Elements
The main element of an unconference that makes it differ from a traditional conference is its schedule—or rather, the lack of an official schedule.
Ultimately, this is the goal of an unconference—sharing and learning. Of course, leadership and guidance are needed to make an unconference successful, but the hand is usually light. At an unconference, people are there because they care and they lead because they have something to contribute.
Facilitation Styles
A good unconference should seek to combine a number of these styles so that people with different comfort levels and learning styles will be engaged.
1/ Appreciative inquiry
2/ Birds of a Feather
3/ Dotmocracy
4/ The Fishbowl
5/ Introductions
6/ The Knowledge Café
7/ Lightning Talks (also known as Speed Geeking or Dork Shorts)
8/ Nominal Group Technique
9/ PechaKucha and Ignite
Further Reading:
From reading Raising the BarCamp: international reflections [version 1]
I think the Barcamp structure places the audience front and centre and provides more opportunity for open conversation and knowledge generation than the conventional conference (presentations and questions) model. It also encourages each participant to make an active contribution to the event. A fresh method that encourages vibrant group conversations on user-driven subjects is provided by barcamps and unconferences.
From reading Barnhart, Anne. “The Course-Integrated Unconference: A Pedagogy of Courage and Mutual Trust.”
Through my reading, I learnt that this paper introduces the inclusion of unconferences in postgraduate courses and examines models that encourage students as future practitioners. The unconference is a mode of meeting in which participants decide on content and take responsibility for it. Curriculum integration of the unconference provides flexibility in the structure and schedule of the course.
I argue that this model creates conscious space for meaningful dialogue on issues of interest to students, elevating their voices and experiences while inverting typical classroom power dynamics. Engaging in the planning and delivery of unconferences provides postgraduate students with valuable professional experience and enhances their ability to take control of their education.
The unconferences described in this thesis are part of an online course, so the models presented will also be useful for our Yellow Basho as they consider alternative ways of transferring conferences and idea sharing to an online environment.
My reflect:
It’s critical for BarCamp organisers to be conscious of how much time the event consumes. Even if you don’t explicitly sit down to plan, you will evaluate every place you enter for its suitability as a BarCamp location.
Throughout the forest system there is no waste and every element is in a constant state of recycling. The leaves that grow on the trees become fertiliser in the soil. In turn, the use of every bit of fertiliser by the whole forest is eventually translated into the whole ecosystem. We use a similar principle to allow each subject to constitute a self-managed model through free-form unconference talks. By abandoning cumbersome processes and retaining the four basic elements, then we can effectively avoid wasting resources.
Brilliant! This will be very useful on Tuesday