Presenters: Shane Bryson, Red Group Facilitator Brooke Dove, Green group facilitator Renita Johnson, Purple group facilitator Gilbert Umberger, Gold Group facilitator
What is Brainstorming? Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. The term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book Applied Imagination.
STEP 1: Prepare the Group Clear your mind Each group (Red, Gold, Purple & Green) needs to assemble together Everyone will receive Post-It notes Write individual ideas on your Post-It notes (Go for Quantity and not Quality- a bad idea is the lack of ideas)
Step 2: Present the problem Your group needs to create a 50 minute workshop presentation for students on your campus You need to brainstorm ideas on topics that would interest students Think of wild and creative ideas. No idea is dumb or stupid!
STEP 3: Guide the discussion Time is up for writing down ideas, your facilitator will now guide you in assembling your ideas No criticism of anyone’s ideas Individually, share the ideas you wrote down with other members of your group Put similar ideas together – Remember 2 wrongs can make a right & putting ideas next to each other can evolve into something incredible
Examples of similar ideas: Student Support Services/ Financial Aid/Counseling/Admissions Diversity/ Multicultural/ LBGTQ/ Special Populations Student Activities/ Clubs/SGA/ PBL/PTK Recycling/Sustainable Energy/ Going Green Food Insecurity/Food Pantry/ Hunger
Step 4: Take action! Each group member will vote on an idea Each member has a total of 5 votes and may use up to a maximum of 3 votes on one idea. When you have used all of your votes, you are done voting. If you do not like an idea, DO NOT Vote on it! Be sure to record the total number of votes for an idea on the Post-It note.
Next Steps: Select someone from your group to come to the front of the classroom and write the Top 3 ideas/topics your group selected on the white board During & after dinner, meet again to discuss your Top Choice. Fine tune it and get it to where the group feels good about it as a 50 minute presentation
finally…. Once you have finalized your presentation topic, give it to JJ by wrap up tonight (10 p.m.) Next, determine the objective of your presentation and select 2-3 learning outcomes on how you will achieve the objective (Due at 8:30 p.m. on Monday) Prepare a budget using the $100 allocated to your group (Due on Monday at 8:30 p.m.)
What is next? Once your topic, objective, learning outcomes, and budget are approved by JJ, you will begin working together on your group project A brief (15 minute) snapshot of your entire 50 minute presentation will be presented to the SLDP class on Friday morning GOOD LUCK!