{"id":1831,"date":"2020-04-25T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2020-04-25T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T04:44:32","slug":"make-your-own-gathering-lessons-learned-from-co-organizing-the-speculativeed-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Gathering: Lessons Learned from Co-Organizing the #SpeculativeEd Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1797\">Speculative Education Colloquium<\/a> took place last week. Across two days of breakouts, featured speakers, and engaged online dialogue we expected a couple dozen people to join us for this event. We had several hundred sign up instead. In terms of our original hope of furthering a space for imagining critical pathways forward in education and educational research, the event feels like a successful one, though there are some areas we learned from that I think we can share with others here.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Y&#8217;all, I&#8217;m losing my mind. So excited to learn with all of you. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpeculativeEd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpeculativeEd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M3F0BlFupb\">pic.twitter.com\/M3F0BlFupb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antero Garcia (@anterobot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anterobot\/status\/1252664835000557568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the substance of the convening will hopefully yield breakout groups, offshoot gatherings, and classroom practices that may funnel into the public in the future, I wanted to reflect on the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">process<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of putting this event together and some of the lessons that <a href=\"https:\/\/gse.rutgers.edu\/nicole_mirra\">Nicole<\/a> and I learned. We announced the event three weeks before it took place and&#8211;including selecting dates, format, and inviting speakers&#8211;the entire project was a month long from start to finish. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/features\/postmortem\/\">design post-mortem<\/a> is intended to help others plan for similarly-scaled events utilizing online virtual platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Make it Happen<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biggest piece of advice that I think we can convey is that&#8211;if you are at all interested in bringing folks together, to sustain community and to engage in collective dreaming&#8211;do it. There are a lot of us sitting in physical distance from one another who are ready for something (virtually) tangible for us to work toward or learn from. To be honest, my own scholarship has suffered over the past two months. Stringing together academic writing, engaging in sustained data analysis, doing the hard work of substantial paper revisions: these are things that, cognitively and emotionally, I am having a hard time attending to right now. I imagine that\u2019s the case for a lot of us. However, bursts of energy (ahem, maybe blog post-length): I can do that. And so, whether it\u2019s hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncte\/status\/1254074204464480256\">gatherings<\/a>, writing shorter, accessible <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ILAToday\/status\/1253102030370955266\">essays<\/a>, or reviewing academic manuscripts, things that take discrete sets of time to complete are at least conveying the feeling of productivity (for myself) during a time when it\u2019s okay for us to not actually be productive; this labor\/market tension&#8211;particularly in the academy right now is a slippery one&#8211;I\u2019ll probably ramble about this elsewhere. The convergence of this anxious energy with the willingness and creativity of an academic collaborator I\u2019ve been lucky enough to learn alongside meant making space to create this event feel rejuvenating and personally useful. If any of this resonates with you and having a community to engage around your thing would be useful, do it. While somewhat labor intensive, this was a\u00a0<em>fun<\/em> event that I feel nourished by. You can do this too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lower the Stakes and Under Promise<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As mentioned above, Nicole and I (really) expected a handful of people to join us. We expected this to be a low-stakes event for sustained conversation for a couple days. For us, we had time open on our calendar because AERA was cancelled and&#8211;worst case scenario&#8211;the two of us would use the time to talk about a topic we were interested in. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if no one else came, this event\u2019s space and time would have been useful for us: it was a no-lose situation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once we sent out a general invitation to speakers and to the general public, we didn\u2019t make any grand promises: come gather for a bit and we\u2019ll see what happens. It\u2019s free and so if you don\u2019t like it or you can\u2019t make it anymore, no harm done. We did ask participants what they were interested in (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1811\">and saw a wide range of responses<\/a>). That feedback shaped our breakout rooms and hopefully led to smaller, independent activities that could emerge from the event\u2019s collaborative document.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Be Flexible<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once 100 people signed up for the event&#8211;two days after it was announced&#8211;we figured about half of those people would show up and the event was now larger than what we originally envisioned. We were in a tricky situation: we were too big for a collective dialogue (or at least we thought we were) <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we were lucky enough to have all of our speakers confirm that they would participate. This made our schedule tighter than we expected&#8211;instead of having a few dozen people in close conversation with Megan Bang, for example, we could all listen to her, have limited time for Q&amp;A, and have two breakout sessions. This wasn\u2019t what we planned, but we went with it. If you are doing an event like this, consider how you might scale the context to accommodate larger and smaller groups. Further, how can you do this scaling in the moment? For example, we had a large number of breakout rooms prepared to be facilitated by friends; if we had much fewer attendees, we would just cancel a few of these rooms to make the others create fuller spaces (this didn\u2019t quite work out and I\u2019ll talk about that below).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Learning with and from Dr. Wayne Yang. I cannot communicate clearly how my shit is being dismantled&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpeculativeEd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpeculativeEd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m0y04o1nRS\">pic.twitter.com\/m0y04o1nRS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michelle King (@LrningInstigatr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LrningInstigatr\/status\/1253041300942839810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A quick note on sign ups: before the event started just over 400 people signed up. We circulated this invitation only via tweets and Facebook posts and hoped it reached people who were interested via word of mouth. Of the people signed up, we had a peak of 220 (or so) people during the colloquium and the number dipped as it got closer to each day\u2019s conclusion. We expected about half of the people signed up to join and that seems like a decent rule of thumb for online, free events in general.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Find Synergies<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We knew most of our speakers would likely have attended AERA and so the ask for their participation was an easier one. This event intentionally moved alongside similar scholarly interests&#8211;our framing for the event was based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spencer.org\/news\/an-open-letter-to-the-spencer-community-covid-19\">invitation<\/a> by Drs. Na\u2019ilah Nasir and Megan Bang and clearly aligned with the scholarship of each of our speakers. Though these speakers were clearly making innovative leaps in the new work they presented, the request to share within the context of this colloquium wasn\u2019t exactly out of left field. I do want to note that, as a free event that was not affiliated with either of our institutions, we did not have funding to compensate the donated labor and energy of our six speakers. That is something I think we would try to address differently in the future, if we were to do one of these events again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screenshot 2020-04-25 19.00.07\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49819651976\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49819651976_566f63995e.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2020-04-25 19.00.07\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Be Vigilant<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The things that Nicole and I were most worried about were chat spamming, zoom-bombing, and other forms of online harassment that might have occurred. Two days before the event, the AERA online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aera.net\/Events-Meetings\/April-19-AERA-Gathering-and-Presidential-Presentation\">Presidential Presentation<\/a> had to turn off chat functionality during Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker&#8217;s powerful address because of comments made in the chat. Particularly considering that all of our speakers were presenting from and addressing scholarly and personal commitments to historically marginalized communities, making sure that online harassment did not occur was our fundamental concern and point of stress for the event. We know that the forms of harassment that we are concerned about disproportionately affect BIPOC, women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To our knowledge, we did not have any issues with trolling or harassment during the event. While we cannot account for private messages that may have been exchanged or communication after the event, I feel proud of the work we did trying to ensure this space was a safe one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We spent substantial time prior to the event testing out and confirming security functionality for the Zoom. We only sent links to the password-protected Zoom the night before the event, to minimize interlopers. We had a waiting room and let people into the event by first trying to confirm their names based on our sign up. We had multiple co-hosts of the Zoom and we were all in communication on a Slack channel identifying potential usernames we did not recognize or comments that raised any flags for us. We all had practiced the processes for turning off chat, ensuring participants could not share their screens, and&#8211;if need be&#8211;kicking people out of the event. When speakers were presenting, we also disabled participants\u2019 ability to unmute themselves, ensuring the speakers would not be interrupted. These sound draconian, but we would rather a vigilant enforcement of safety than an unsafe space for our participants and speakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most importantly, we wrote&#8211;and announced each day&#8211;a code of conduct for the colloquium. This was substantially adapted from a policy written by the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Gonue3iCXSQVf22dUezQjYV2PnzrMkW3\/view?fbclid=IwAR3Tl9yfGwbBaVS2grpnBPj_VYQxfy3tlAzH8m241jdxOKmhEvw1YW_Pkgk\">Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While I don\u2019t love the need for such rigorous moderating of the event or the fact that so much of this insecurity is based on our over reliance on proprietary software that governs so much of our online interactions, it was the choice we made. We <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have spent substantial time at the beginning of the event establishing collective norms with our participants&#8211;if we were a smaller group we probably would have. However, given that we wanted to prioritize the content of this colloquium, we went with the decisions noted above. I would be curious what strategies others are employing right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ask for Patience<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of ways this event could go wrong. At the beginning of both days and in our email communication with participants, we asked everyone for patience as we collectively figured this out. Maybe it helped (?) that the first email I sent out about this was unintentionally formatted wonkily, immediately lowering people\u2019s expectations (fortunately, Nicole took over emailing participants for the event moving forward!). Again, because this event was free, if things didn\u2019t quite work out&#8211;like when the Zoom meeting abruptly ended for everyone at the end of Day 1&#8211;we could all smile and let the learning and convening continue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Some Pain Points<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a few areas we know we could have improved in this event and I share these below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Access<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We could have been better when it came to accessibility for this event. Yes, that\u2019s the case broadly in schooling and particularly for forms of distance learning right now, but for our event, this could have been better. Three weeks prior to the event we started looking into captioning options. We made weekly progress getting the right APIs to talk with one another to enable automated captioning; while we didn\u2019t have funding to hire someone to type captions for the event, we were planning to pay for the cheaper and still less ideal automated captions. Up to 24 hours before the event took place, we expected this to be functional. However, with various security levels to fiddle with Zoom, we were not able to get this option set up in time. We are aware that this likely affected some participants\u2019 engagement. To be clear, this isn\u2019t the only form of accessibility we needed to consider and this event had shortcomings among multiple lines in this regard. Early on, we acknowledged that a virtual convening like this one privileged folks with access to strong internet connections, for example.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Recording<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is less a pain point for us than for people who want the content from speakers. Even before the event was concluded, we were getting requests to share the videos of the speakers from the colloquium. Honestly, every speaker was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">amazing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And while we will share <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of these talks very soon, we also were explicit with our underpromise in this regard. We only recorded the speakers\u2019 presentations, cut off the recording once public Q&amp;A began, and conveyed to everyone that we were uncertain if these recordings would be made available publicly. Again, our intention wasn\u2019t to amass and collect others\u2019 knowledge. After the colloquium, we emailed each speaker a link to download their own video recording. It is their work and their file to decide what to do with. We wanted to shift responsibility around this work to give back to speakers&#8211;particularly scholars that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2020\/04\/10\/1915378117\">data suggests<\/a> are often less cited or recognized for their contributions&#8211;to ensure that knowledge is both preserved and moved forward in ways that are responsive to individuals. Depending on your event, we could imagine you choose to record or not record in different ways, but think intentionally about what that recording light on Zoom calls does for participation. Speaking of &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Participation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We collected comments and questions from the chat, asked participants to \u201craise their hands\u201d through Zoom\u2019s functionality, and had a robust hashtag on Twitter as inputs for participation. There was also a powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1V-Y_wotYAqiel60oGpLDoxd_qun_Ltd12EOA-c5IiHM\/edit\">social annotation<\/a> effort happening alongside the event. However, the size of the event meant that these structures did not ensure that everyone\u2019s voices were heard. It also meant that it sometimes felt like there was a disconnect or lack of engagement from the large group if questions didn\u2019t flow for speakers at some points. It also didn\u2019t help that Stanford\u2019s Zoom settings disable copying text or clicking on links.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some strategies we used to mitigate these limitations\u2014that might be helpful for you\u2014included abundant use of customized <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/\">tinyurls<\/a> and an open google doc. The tinyurls were easy to share on a screen and, even when participants couldn\u2019t click them, weren\u2019t too difficult to type into a browser. In general, all of our information was distilled to a single, read-only google doc that we updated frequently. On this doc, we would post the agenda, links to all breakouts, links to related information, and things like a concluding evaluation form and the aforementioned google doc. In essence, if participants could access this document they could get to any other materials for the convening pretty easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The open google doc functioned as a sign-in page so that participants could share contact information, converge around interests, and offer any relevant resources. There was a &#8220;sandbox&#8221; that we encouraged individuals to use to cluster around projects and topics&#8211;revisiting it now, there are several pages of potential projects that were born out of this event. This was an unorganized space and\u2014again setting lowered expectations\u2014we were not building a listserv or database to share later. Rather, we hoped people would use this space in the moment. At the beginning of the first day, we hit the limit of how many participants could be on this doc at any given time, so this may not be a feasible space for events of this size or larger.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"Screenshot 2020-04-25 19.02.03\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49819964427\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49819964427_6f9376a9b4_w.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2020-04-25 19.02.03\" width=\"400\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Breakouts<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our breakouts were named based thematically on the interests people listed when they signed up for the colloquium. Participation in them varied widely. Some breakouts had 30-50 people in them and some had 2 people in them (though facilitators noted that these smaller groups had robust and personal conversation as a result). Because we didn\u2019t want to sort people manually into groups or to assign people to random rooms, we solicited the help of friends that we knew signed up for the event. Since most of us have institutional Zoom accounts, Nicole organized rooms using multiple folks\u2019 accounts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Screenshot 2020-04-25 19.00.51\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49819112533\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49819112533_e0e2bc613c.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2020-04-25 19.00.51\" width=\"500\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again, the read-only google doc served as the hub for finding these sessions. In addition to a host for each room that served as the space\u2019s facilitator, Nicole also created a note-taking generic document. This page was shared with breakout rooms individually. All of these spaces, links, and organization took time in advance to make the day of the event flow somewhat seamlessly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Returning back to the main meeting space from Zoom\u2014like reconvening from group activities in a class or like a broader conference session\u2014took time and we should have given ourselves more of it for this. We also saw some drop-off of attendees (who likely chose not to participate in the smaller breakouts); this didn\u2019t surprise us, but I note it here for your own planning considerations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Competing Activities<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same week that we announced this colloquium, Nicole and I also shared an adjacent (but different) idea, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1826\">#RogueAERA<\/a>. Our attention to this colloquium meant we didn\u2019t spend as much time on #RogueAERA, though there were some amazing contributions to the hashtag. However, because we had two different (but kinda related) hashtags floating around at the same time, we saw a lot of overlap between the uses of these spaces. Both #SpeculativeEd and #RogueAERA served as back-channeling spaces for the event, even if that wasn\u2019t our intended outcome. I note this here to consider how you might make clear the boundaries of your space and the need to be flexible when participation begins to seep beyond those boundaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s Next<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t sure! There are so many different things that\u00a0<em>could<\/em> emerge from this colloquium. None of them have to be organized by Nicole or by me. This is an open invitation for others to lead the what&#8217;s next. I know this event is helping shape some of my own thinking and it is helping me ease back into the scholarly writing I had been adrift from.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, about three weeks prior to the event, we did receive&#8211;via the <a href=\"https:\/\/cset.stanford.edu\/\">Center to Support Excellence in Teaching<\/a>&#8211;the support of Stanford doctoral student Kelly Boles; she played a substantial role organizing and working on the logistics with us. We really appreciate getting to learn with Kelly on this project. 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Across two days of breakouts, featured speakers, and engaged online dialogue we expected a couple dozen people to join us for this event. We had several hundred sign up instead. 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