Settling into a rhythm always gives me reason to pause because I want to make sure I don’t forget anything. In this case, with the remaining weeks of the Workshop, things went well because I was always hyper vigilant to this fact. Things like this blog, however, have been ignored largely because well, i spend so much time curriculum building that I can’t come back and reflect as often as I wanted to.
Some issues popped up that I wanted to take a moment to think on - the nature of viewers on Twitch is such that you build up a regular following, and that’s awesome. However, at times, when your regulars aren’t there or aren’t chiming in as per usual, it’s a little stressful. Part of it is because I wonder if I’m not doing something right, but I know that people have lives outside of Twitch that they don’t have to check in on real time.
Part of our work has been on Miro, and that requires live work in real time. I know one of my shortcomings is teeing up an activity. I could be much better at it. I can tell when I’m off because when I send everyone over, they’re hovering around like WTF am I supposed to do. So I need to pull them back and do a demo in real time. I’ll work on that.
What really nice, though, is feedback. I created a space online for folks to give their I Like, I Wish, I Wonder. I read all of them on the last day of the workshop. Feedback isn’t always a bad thing, but I know from experience that not everyone knows how to give good feedback ;-) The I Like, I Wish, I Wonder is a good tool to give prompts but also harvest great feedback that is actionable. Because of the feedback, I piloted my first office hours during the week (most of my workshops are on Saturday AM) and that was wildly successful. Guess I have to put it on my agenda moving forward.
With this in mind, I created my schedule for the next two months with feedback in mind as well as some redos of popular workshops. You’re all welcome:
Cheers all for your support and follows/subs on Twitch. It means a lot to me, and I’m blessed to be able to share all of this with you all!
-ChARLO