{"id":689,"date":"2021-04-27T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/?p=689"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:02:06","slug":"back-to-basics-a-skills-workshop-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/digitalcorps\/2021\/04\/27\/back-to-basics-a-skills-workshop-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Basics: A Skills Workshop Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The saying goes, \u201cwhen life gives you lemons, make lemonade,\u201d&nbsp;encouraging an&nbsp;optimistic,&nbsp;can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune. Recently, \u201clife\u201d seemed to give fellow Digital Corps team member, Amelia&nbsp;Cisna, and I \u201clemons,\u201d so naturally, we made \u201clemonade.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During&nbsp;a casual conversation, we realized that not a lot of people outside of our team really understand all that the Communications Team does.&nbsp;We quickly realized that we don\u2019t know a lot about the other teams as well. Being&nbsp;a&nbsp;member of the Communications Team,&nbsp;I&nbsp;have not&nbsp;been on&nbsp;a lot of projects with Development or User Experience Team members, so&nbsp;I do not know much about the work that they do. And I am sure the same can be said for other team members.&nbsp;There are so many amazing things that each team does at the Digital Corps, and Amelia and I, along with everyone else at the Corps, want to be able to highlight&nbsp;all of&nbsp;those things!&nbsp;Through this realization, we were inspired to&nbsp;find a way for all members of the Corps to learn more about each team. Suddenly,&nbsp;an&nbsp;idea was born.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creating the Idea&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our idea was simple: we wanted to host&nbsp;a&nbsp;skill session that would provide members of the Corps with the chance to gain a better understanding of what&nbsp;tasks each team does on a day-to-day basis. We then took our idea to the Basics Workshop team, which consisted of Hailey Leonard as the Junior Project Manager and Lauren&nbsp;Monasa&nbsp;as the Project Manager.&nbsp;Leonard&nbsp;explained that the purpose of doing basic workshops is \u201cto allow students to learn the basics of a&nbsp;skill from one of their peers, and then hopefully go on to explore that skill in more detail after the workshop is done! It\u2019s used as a learning opportunity for all the attendees, and a chance to practice leadership skills for the person leading the session!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing this, we felt that a basics workshop would be the perfect place to host this event because it would provide members of the Corps with the opportunity to learn a new skill in an area that they are a little less familiar with, and,&nbsp;hopefully, they&nbsp;would&nbsp;feel empowered to&nbsp;continue&nbsp;learning and pursuing that skill.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Planning&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-11.49.26-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-719\" width=\"363\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/14195804\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-11.49.26-AM.png 725w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/14195804\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-11.49.26-AM-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><figcaption>The script for the Basics Workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After&nbsp;deciding to host the event as a workshop, we began planning how it would go. We decided to pair each participant with someone from a different team and have each person come&nbsp;prepared with a task to teach their partner. Each participant would&nbsp;get about ten minutes to teach their partner a task, and then they would&nbsp;switch places.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We decided to pick&nbsp;simple, day-to-day tasks&nbsp;for&nbsp;team members to teach their partners. These tasks included editing a 30-second sequence in Premiere for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Video Team, using Illustrator basics for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Design Team, adding 1-100 in&nbsp;JavaScript&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Development Team, writing a social media strategy for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Communications&nbsp;Team, using Personas for the User Experience (UX) Team, and creating a timeline for the Project Management Team.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The setup for this workshop was&nbsp;a bit&nbsp;<em>basic<\/em><em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Cisna&nbsp;and I would&nbsp;conduct the workshop via Zoom,&nbsp;start with a brief introduction,&nbsp;explaining what we were doing&nbsp;and why,&nbsp;and&nbsp;separated the participants&nbsp;into&nbsp;Zoom breakout rooms&nbsp;with their partner.&nbsp;During their breakout session, the participants&nbsp;worked&nbsp;together on completing a team member\u2019s task, while also providing them with the chance to learn and ask questions, not just about the task at hand, but also about the other team in general. Plus, the breakout rooms provided the chance for&nbsp;participants&nbsp;to connect with someone&nbsp;they may not usually&nbsp;get to work closely with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building an&nbsp;Understanding&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After&nbsp;the workshop, we had a chance to chat with the participants&nbsp;to&nbsp;see how they felt about the&nbsp;activity,&nbsp;and&nbsp;we&nbsp;got a lot of&nbsp;great&nbsp;feedback.&nbsp;The&nbsp;amazing&nbsp;thing about all of this was seeing the impact that this workshop had on its participants.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eli&nbsp;Sokeland,&nbsp;a Development Team Master, was partnered up with&nbsp;Addison&nbsp;Paul, a Communication&nbsp;Team Master,&nbsp;were&nbsp;paired&nbsp;together because they both felt they knew the least about each other\u2019s team.&nbsp;During their session together,&nbsp;Sokeland&nbsp;was able to teach&nbsp;Paul&nbsp;about&nbsp;JavaScript, and&nbsp;Paul&nbsp;was able to teach&nbsp;Sokeland&nbsp;about social media planning.&nbsp;Paul&nbsp;explained that during their session,&nbsp;\u201cEli very patiently explained what certain phrases or commands meant and what they did, which helped me understand the&nbsp;\u2018magic\u2019&nbsp;of development a bit more.\u201d Now,&nbsp;Paul&nbsp;can&nbsp;better understand&nbsp;more about what code means. And by having&nbsp;Sokeland&nbsp;learn more about what the Communications&nbsp;Team does, he has a better appreciation for the team,&nbsp;and&nbsp;feels more confident&nbsp;talking to the other teams about their&nbsp;work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"968\" height=\"262\" src=\"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-03-at-11.49.11-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195757\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-03-at-11.49.11-AM.png 968w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195757\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-03-at-11.49.11-AM-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195757\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-03-at-11.49.11-AM-768x208.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><figcaption>Paul\u2019s&nbsp;creation using JavaScript.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI gained appreciation for the unique and important tasks that I wasn&#8217;t aware of after this experience. While I&#8217;m sure the workshop only showcased a minor part of [the Communications Team\u2019s] job, I&#8217;m glad that I got to&nbsp;look into&nbsp;their daily work,\u201d&nbsp;said&nbsp;Sokeland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully, students will now feel empowered to continue learning about what the other teams do\u00a0and continue to grow in their skillsets with it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-1.24.49-PM-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-727\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/14195835\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-1.24.49-PM-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/14195835\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-1.24.49-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/14195835\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-1.24.49-PM-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/06\/14195835\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-1.24.49-PM.png 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Amelia Cisna\u2019s\u00a0beach scene using\u00a0Illustrator.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After doing this this workshop, Cisna and I learned that there are a lot of benefits&nbsp;that come with it, for example,&nbsp;teams struggle to explain all that they do.&nbsp;It is easy to generalize it and say that \u201cwe make videos,\u201d or \u201cwe design apps,\u201d but really that is just barely touching the surface of&nbsp;the Corps.&nbsp;With the help of this workshop, students can now explain with a lot more detail what&nbsp;the teams do. For instance,&nbsp;the&nbsp;User Experience Team uses a method called \u201ccard-sorting,\u201d which helps design the information architecture of a site,&nbsp;how the site\u2019s information should be organized.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel that I benefited from this experience in appreciation. For example, I wasn&#8217;t sure how to talk to other teams about their specific work as well before this workshop. But by learning a little bit about what they do, I think that will improve my own communication with that team,\u201d&nbsp;said Video Team Apprentice&nbsp;Maddie&nbsp;Rambissoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-04-at-9.10.43-AM-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-691\" width=\"NaN\" height=\"NaN\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195802\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-04-at-9.10.43-AM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195802\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-04-at-9.10.43-AM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195802\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-04-at-9.10.43-AM-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195802\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-04-at-9.10.43-AM-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2021\/04\/14195802\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-04-at-9.10.43-AM-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Rambissoon practicing card-sorting<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Working as a JPM&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doing a workshop like&nbsp;this can also benefit students who are Junior Project Managers at the Digital Corps. A Junior Project Manager, or JPM, is a Corps student&nbsp;outside of the PM Team with project management tasks. A JPM\u2019s responsibilities include assisting with timelines, taking official notes, checking in with team members, and more. A JPM may be assigned projects that are not necessarily specific to their team. A person on the Communications Team could JPM a project that is Development Team heavy, or someone on the User Experience Team could JPM a project that is Video Team heavy, which is why our Basics Workshop was very beneficial.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonard, a User Experience Master, explains that being a JPM for a project that isn\u2019t for your team can be difficult: \u201cIt&#8217;s definitely a learning curve, you cannot just jump into it and expect to know everything.&#8221; With the help of the basic workshop, JPM\u2019s saw other teams\u2019 work and learned their terminology. Leonard explains that JPMs can benefit from working closely with other teams: \u201cThere are still things that I do not have any experience with that would be beneficial for me to do with someone from that team.\u201d This workshop taught JPMs about collaboration, and that even if they have a basic understanding of something, they can always learn more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I may already have basic knowledge about something, but maybe my basic knowledge of something is outdated and wrong,\u201d&nbsp;said&nbsp;Leonard.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the Digital Corps, we&nbsp;encourage everyone to learn a new skillset, even if it isn\u2019t in a field that you are studying. You never know the type of&nbsp;doors&nbsp;it can open for you; it can allow you to start a conversation with someone new or contribute to a project in a way that you might not have been able to before.&nbsp;Remember, when life gives you lemons, instead of being sour, make some lemonade!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saying goes, \u201cwhen life gives you lemons, make lemonade,\u201d&nbsp;encouraging an&nbsp;optimistic,&nbsp;can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune. 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