What will we cover? 

Session 1:

• How do I get into MS Teams? Which options do I have for participants of my workshops?
• Understanding the difference of MS Teams as a collaboration tool and as a videoconferencing software (only) and combining both for great workshops
• Setting up a great teams environment for a workshop or ongoing programme: incl. setting up channels for social interaction, parking lot, group work; setting up a flexible agenda with Microsoft Planner
• Experiencing & setting up group work
• Options for ‘harvesting’ / documenting

Optional Session 2:

• Exploring technical options for facilitation purposes in more detail
• Visualising with MS whiteboard, Powerpoint Online with ‘post-it notes’ and others 
• How to do set up different kinds of polls and their application in facilitating participatory processes (in-call, in between online meetings, simple polling, like/voting on votes,as brainstorming, quizzes…)
• Experiencing participant-chosen facilitation formats, like e.g. fishbowl, open space, world café, gallery tour, liberating structures….
• If time allows: deep dive into selected topics of interest, e.g. facilitation topics (dealing with silence, setting up group agreements, powerful questions…) or technical (going deeper with Planner, MS Forms…) 

If there is interest, a third module could take place as a follow-up to spend more time on chosen topics. 

When? 

We will first offer only 1 x 3h workshop, see how much we can integrate from the topics listed under session 2 and then see if there is interest in another follow-up session.

1.Workshop

• 17th of February 2020
• 17-20.00 CET / 12-15.00 EDT / 9-12 PDT

Note: please let us know if you are from Asia and interested in the course, so we could set up a course for Asian time zones in 2021.