Tool/Technique Workshop

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Students will lead brief workshops of approximately 10 minutes covering a tool or technique that can be used for activism. Each workshop should include a corresponding handout that will be submitted here for distribution to the class (examples here and here). The workshop's purpose is to explain how class members can use the associated tool or technique for activist purposes, so it should focus specifically on our needs. Workshops should incorporate some form of interactive class activity. Students are not expected to be experts with their chosen tool or technique; delivering the workshop is a means for students to gain experience with it. Excellent workshops will provide productive information focused on our class in an engaging and readily-comprehensible way, be on time, be rehearsed and polished, and include an effective handout.

Workshops should follow the following general structure:

  1. An overview of the tool or technique
  2. Specific information about how class members might use the tool or technique for activism
  3. An interactive class activity that reinforces the seminar's content

Topic choice is open, but each topic can be covered only once. Examples might include:

  • Twitter
  • podcasts
  • Periscope
  • conducting a petition drive
  • Facebook Groups
  • canvassing
  • Google Drive
  • YouTube Live Events
  • public speaking
  • Instagram
  • SMS texting
  • blogs
  • flash mobs

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