Building your own group work resources

If you go to God google you will find heaps of activities, ice-breakers and group games that you can use in the groups you run. Some of them are pretty darn good. But if you want your activities to hit the mark every time (or most of the time for most of the participants) then devising your own will give them a freshness and relevance that no shop-bought item can deliver. So we will look at producing your own strategies and activities made specifically -for your workshop and your participants’: Physical, conversational, ‘theatrical’ (with a small ‘t’), reflective, image-based including use of still image, photos and video.

We will also, with no need at all for any technical know-how, go through ways of creating your own audio-visual resources; at a low or no cost.

We’ll take a look at:

• • On-line whiteboard animation videos, using Videoscribe
  • On-line video-making software Animoto. which requires zero editing skills. Upload pics and vids and it all happens for you. But there are a couple of things to bear in mind as you do so
  • Prezi: An alternative to Powerpoint, and a vehicle that can embed both Animoto videos and Videoscribe.