Week Ten Notes

--- tags: JLU --- # Week Ten Notes Our last week on the programme with Just Like Us! It seems to have gone by so quickly, but our work has led us to useful insights and recommendations that Just Like Us can take forward into their resource database and e-learning provision going forward. This week we've been writing up our final thoughts and adding them to our outputs documents (accessible from this HackMD). Its been such a pleasure to work with the Just Like Us team. Their high level of engagement with our programme and knowledge about their field have made workshops a breeze and made the whole experience feel so collaborative and open. The same goes for the educators we've spoken to during research and usability testing, and our other development partners working on the Just Like Us website, EDD. A shout out also to Ellie at CAST who was our connector, and everyone else at CAST who have supported the programme so well in the background. ## On our approach Our approach to the programme was established during the application phase and is summarised in the weekly plan section in this document. Week by week we have stuck to the original plan more or less exactly, and on the whole it seems to have worked very well. There was the period early on where we were introduced to EDD, and collaborated with them to work out how we could both work in similar areas without treading on one anothers toes or duplicating work uneccessarily. This could have been a little tricky to work out, but a perhaps fortunate difference in schedules and approaches between our two organisations meant that we didn't have to rethink much at all, and were able to feed back our learnings to EDD just as they are beginning to work on wireframing and more definition themselves. They will be able to take our work on this programme and use it to define the resources database and training platforms as they build them. We also had a slight worry around educators' capability to take part in usability testing, affected by the last minute return to school after lockdown. In the end we hit the numbers of test participants we wanted, but as a lesson perhaps we would think about giving user testing a bit more of a dynamic or adaptable schedule in future. ## On Toolkits An area of Just Like Us' work that is relevant to what we have explored but we didn't have chance to really dig into with our programme are their toolkits. Defined as "An online handbook which is less guided than a training course, but more guided than a resource library", JLU have an established toolkit for School Diversity Week and may create more for other events or topics depending on the perceived usefulness of the format and content. We began to ask educators questions about toolkits and toolkit content and format alongside our second round of usability testing. Although some useful insight came from that research, it could easily be the subject of a wider piece of work. Specifically it could be a good candidate for further exploration in the continuing phases of the Dev2A programme whose applications are yet to open. ## Signing off For now we pass the resource database and training platform and all we have learned about them over to EDD to develop and make live as part of their wider work on JLU's website, so this is the Sienna team signing off. Its been a blast. **Jamie, Bethany and Gregor**