Thanks for sharing this, Joel, I found it very useful!
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach manager, Community Engagement \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mc...@wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:43 AM Joel Aufrecht <jaufre...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I saw this thread over the weekend, from Eve Tuck: > https://twitter.com/tuckeve/status/1141501422611128320, about grad > student seminars and Q&A, and the concepts seem broadly relevant. > > … I make it clear that it is the audience’s responsibility to help craft a >> positive public speaking experience for graduate students and early career >> scholars. I tell the audience to help keep the good experience going and >> tell them not to ask violent questions. Right after I am finished talking >> or all the panelists have shared their papers, I invite the audience to >> take 5-10 minutes to talk to each other. After 45-70 minutes of listening, >> people are bursting to talk, and taking the time to turn to talk to a >> neighbor keeps the first question from being from a person who just felt >> the urgency to talk. … I suggest that they use the time to peer review >> their questions. I say that this is a time for them to share a question >> they are considering posing in the q and a, and that they should a) make >> sure it is really a question; b) make sure they aren’t actually trying to >> say that THEY should have given the paper; c) figure out if the question >> needs to be posed and answered in front of everyone; d) I remind the >> audience that the speaker has just done a lot of work, so they should >> figure out if their question is asking the speaker to do work that really >> the question-asker should do. … >> > > It's specific to the academic context and the face-to-face setting of an > academic seminar or other controlled meeting room, so these techniques > aren't literally transferable to, e.g., mailing lists or talk pages. But I > think the problems they are intended to address, such as violent, > off-putting, or unconstructive questions, sound familiar, I wonder how we > can adopt and apply these ideas. > > Joel Aufrecht (he/him, they/them) > > Program Manager (Technology) > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices >
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