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GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME AT OUR FIRST WORKSHOP DAY!

Getting to Know Each Other

How do we achieve that in the most efficient way? We decide that group dynamics and facilitation require us to go to personal levels.

So after the official greetings and a short introduction to the theme on this first official day we begin to do that.

Speed investigating

Tara invites us to take part in a sociogram or relation game....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociogram

We need to move and cluster according to commonalities.

  • Who of you is a single child?
  • Who of you is a first born?
And it turned out that the big majority of the participants gathered in the corner of the room where the first born were to meet. E.g. Annette, Tara, Steve, Laura

  • Who of you has one to two brothers or sisters?
  • Who of you has more than three brothers or sisters?
Wow that became complicated, e.g. Wael is the fourth born of nine.

  • Who lives in the country or in town?
  • Who lives in a house and who lives in a flat?
Annette lives in Berlin, Tara in Vienna, Pamela in London. Giovanni is in between, he lives parttime in Rome, parttime in the country where he was raised. The group was very lively, and continued to work on the questions. Markus raised the topic that he lives and works in the country. His question was: Who commutes? The big majority turned out to work from home, only three or four commute to work!

Softly softly we approach the theme. And there are real surprises, for example when we ask the question:

  • Who is able to program the video recorder herself/himself?
This caused a real hurly-burly - 'cause all our participants from the former sowjet union member states had no idea what this question was all about. In these countries the technology of vhs videorecording has never spread to the bigger part of the population.

Wow. So much information in such little time with such little effort! It feels good.

Introduction round

We moved enough and sit in a circle now. We go deeper,

We do a round with all the participants answering three question by speech or image:

  • Where do I come from?
  • Who am I?
  • What do I seek to learn for me and my community?

We have many moving presentations and we will put some of the material online at the VideoBridge/GrundtvigWorkshop/Participants page

Lunch

At noon we have a "Turkish lunch" in Café Karolinenhof.

Immersion in the Theme

In the afternoon we form a "videobridge story telling circle". So we want to find access to the medium in stories, but of course this also provoques many questions about what videobridging is all about. Is it just about the "high end" or does it start with simple Skype conferencing used in creative ways? Why do we choose to do it at all?

SashaMrkailo from Sombor in Serbia has already collected dozens of stories and noted them here in the wiki (MyVideoStory?). The stories point to the many creative uses, to things you could not previously do and yet they are the continuation of something familiar.

AndriusKulikauskas presents his own plethora of stories; he has been a very active "VideoBridger through the GlobalUtopias? project. Some of his work is documented here in our collection VideoBridgeStories. So Andrius also seeks to wrap up the types of useful cases and presents us a little typology. Ernst comes right in the moment when Andrius talks about four types of videobridging.


Notices beside:

  • Knut:

In the evening there is a visit to central Vienna ....

Photo Courtesy: Abdullah PEKEL, Julija ASTRAUSKIENE

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